Stanley Wells

Shakespeare on Page and Stage (eBook, ePUB)

Selected Essays
Redaktion: Edmondson, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare, and over his lifetime he has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland, and its thirty chapters are divided into themed sections: 'Shakespearian Influences', 'Essays on Particular Works', 'Shakespeare in the Theatre', and 'Shakespeare's Text'. An afterword by Margreta de Grazia concludes the volume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191090110
• Artikelnr.: 46449641

Autorenporträt

Sir Stanley Wells, CBE, FRSL, described by Roy Hattersley as 'Our greatest authority on Shakespeare's life and work', is Honorary President, Life Trustee, and former Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He was Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, from 1988-1997, and is now Emeritus Professor. He is an Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has been General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare since 1978 and is General Editor of the Penguin Shakespeare. One of the most distinguished Shakespearian scholars currently working, his publications include Shakespeare For All Time (2002), Shakespeare & Co (2006), Shakespeare, Sex, and Love (2010), Great Shakespeare Actors (2015), William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction (2015), and Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Shakespearian Influences
* 1: Shakespeare: Man of the European Renaissance
* 2: Tales from Shakespeare
* Essays on Particular Works
* 3: The Failure of The Two Gentlemen of Verona
* 4: The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear: A Structural Comparison
* 5: The Integration of Violent Action in Titus Andronicus
* 6: The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet
* 7: The Uses of Inconsequentiality (Romeo and Juliet)
* 8: Laments in Richard II
* 9: A Midsummer Night's Dream Revisited
* 10: Translations in A Midsummer Night's Dream
* 11: The Division of the Kingdoms (King Lear)
* 12: Points of Stagecraft in The Tempest
* 13: My Name is Will (The Sonnets)
* 14: Shakespeare Without Sources
* Shakespeare in the Theatre
* 16: Boys Should be Girls: Shakespeares Female Roles and the Boy
Players
* 17: Staging Shakespeares Ghosts
* 18: Staging Shakespeares Apparitions and Dream Visions
* 19: Shakespeare in Planché s Extravaganzas
* 20: Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm s Theatre Criticism
* 21: Shakespeare in Leigh Hunt s Theatre Criticism
* 22: Shakespeare in William Hazlitt s Theatre Criticism
* 23: A Favourite Production: Peter Hall's Coriolanus
* Shakespeare's Text
* 22: On Being A General Editor
* 23: Editorial Treatment of Foul-Paper Texts: Much Ado About Nothing
as Test Case
* 24: Money in Shakespeares Comedies
* 25: To Read a Play: The Problem of Editorial Intervention
* 26: The First Folio: where would we be without it?
* Select Bibliography