ShakespeareEdinburgh University Press, 2007 - 282 pagini Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Halliwell and Andy Mousley This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the reader's understanding of key literary movements, periods and genres, and consider debates that inform the past, present and future of literary study. Resources such as glossaries of key terms and details of archives and internet sites are also provided, making each volume a comprehensive critical guide. Shakespeare (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series) Gabriel Egan This book helps the reader make sense of the most commonly studied writer in the world. It starts with a brief explanation of how Shakespeare's writings have come down to us as a series of scripts for actors in the early modern theatre industry of London. The main chapters of the book approach the texts through a series of questions: 'what's changed since Shakespeare's time?', 'to what uses has Shakespeare been put?', and 'what value is there in Shakespeare?' These questions go to the heart of why we study Shakespeare at all, which question the book encourages the readers to answer for themselves in relation to their own critical writing. Key Features * A chronology of Shakespeare's career as an actor/dramatist that locates him within the theatre industry of his time * New readings of twelve plays that form a core of the Shakespeare canon: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard 2, Henry 5, Hamlet, Othello, All's Well that Ends Well, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, and Timon of Athens * Critical analyses organized by genre (comedies, histories, tragedies, and romance) and by four key critical approaches: authorship, performance, identities, and materialism * An extensive resources section, including a glossary of the i |
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... comes because terrible things threaten the state , but in fact this other guess of Horatio's is right . In a bril ... comes to look so con- vincing that our faith in his judgement is shaken . With uncertainty about Hamlet's state of mind ...
... comes because terrible things threaten the state , but in fact this other guess of Horatio's is right . In a bril ... comes to look so con- vincing that our faith in his judgement is shaken . With uncertainty about Hamlet's state of mind ...
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... comes after ( indeed , is caused by ) the ' get thee to a nunnery ' exchange with Ophelia.1 Hirsh is certainly right that Olivier's film greatly affected late twentieth - century responses to the play . The opening narration describes ...
... comes after ( indeed , is caused by ) the ' get thee to a nunnery ' exchange with Ophelia.1 Hirsh is certainly right that Olivier's film greatly affected late twentieth - century responses to the play . The opening narration describes ...
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... comes about has reasons and is shaped by the past . This sense seems more appro- priate to the play than ones based on classical mythology . THE TIMING OF EXITS AND ENTRANCES What are we to make of Macbeth and Banquo seeming to pick up ...
... comes about has reasons and is shaped by the past . This sense seems more appro- priate to the play than ones based on classical mythology . THE TIMING OF EXITS AND ENTRANCES What are we to make of Macbeth and Banquo seeming to pick up ...
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Introduction | 1 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 19 |
Richard 2 and Henry 5 | 46 |
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