William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors

Herausgeber: Dorsch, T S; King, Ros

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For this updated edition Ros King has provided a completely new, illustrated Introduction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780521827942
• ISBN-10: 0521827949
• Artikelnr.: 21747079

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface to first edition
Abbreviations
Introduction by Ros King: Shakespeare's main source: Plautus's Menaechmi
Shakespeare's first tragicomedy
Shakespeare's schooling and the construction of The Comedy of Errors
Casting the twins
Verse form and metrication
The first known performance: Gray's Inn 1594
Later productions
Note on the text
List of characters
THE PLAY
Appendixes: 1. The performance of 1594
2. Passages from the Bible
Reading list.