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A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume I (eBook, PDF)

The Tragedies

Redaktion: Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E.

Beschreibung

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.

• Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.
• Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.
• Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.
• Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.

This companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.

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• Geräte: PC
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• Größe: 2.38MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is an editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (1997). Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the Palgrave Literary Lives series.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470997277
• Artikelnr.: 38208365

Rezensionen

"Whether for the student wishing for an overview of criticalapproaches or anxious to fill in the gaps in his Shakespeareanculture, for those wishing to catch up on the diversity of literarytheories, or for the inquisitive browser, this set of volumesassuredly charts the map of current criticism."
Cahiers Elisabethains

"Those who are intimidated by the publishers' grandiose claimthat the set would constitute 'a provocative roadmap to Shakespearestudies at the dawning of the twenty-first century' will breathe asigh of relief to discover that the essays are not only readable,they are informative and stimulating. Essential."
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