Shakespeare′s Comedies
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2003
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-631-22011-4 (ISBN)
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-631-22011-4 (ISBN)
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Criticism of Shakespeare's comedies has shifted from stressing their light-hearted qualities to giving a stronger sense of their dark aspects and social resonances. This work introduces key debates under the headings: genre, history and politics, gender and sexuality, language and performance.
Criticism of Shakespeare's comedies has shifted from stressing their light-hearted and festive qualities to giving a stronger sense of their dark aspects and their social resonances. This volume introduces the key critical debates under five headings: genre, history and politics, gender and sexuality, language, and performance. The Guide serves students of Shakespeare in two ways. Firstly, by presenting ten recent critical interventions in the field of Shakespeare studies, it provides an up-to-date compendium of current scholarship. All the articles are contextualised with brief critical overviews and annotated suggestions for further reading. An additional chapter on pre-twentieth-century criticism is mainly in narrative form but excerpts significant early views by Johnson, Hazlitt and Coleridge. Thus, secondly, the volume acts as a guide to further reading to help students extend their knowledge of Shakespeare criticism.
Criticism of Shakespeare's comedies has shifted from stressing their light-hearted and festive qualities to giving a stronger sense of their dark aspects and their social resonances. This volume introduces the key critical debates under five headings: genre, history and politics, gender and sexuality, language, and performance. The Guide serves students of Shakespeare in two ways. Firstly, by presenting ten recent critical interventions in the field of Shakespeare studies, it provides an up-to-date compendium of current scholarship. All the articles are contextualised with brief critical overviews and annotated suggestions for further reading. An additional chapter on pre-twentieth-century criticism is mainly in narrative form but excerpts significant early views by Johnson, Hazlitt and Coleridge. Thus, secondly, the volume acts as a guide to further reading to help students extend their knowledge of Shakespeare criticism.
Emma Smith is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in English at Oxford University. Her publications include Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie (ed. 1998) and Shakespeare in Production: Henry V (2000).
Preface Acknowledgements 1 The Development of Criticism of Shakespeare's Comedies 2 Genre Marriage as Comic Closure False Immortality in Measure for Measure 3 Language Here Follows Prose Transfer of Title in Love's Labour's Lost 4 Gender and Sexuality Helena's Bed-trick The Homoerotics of Shakespearian Comedy 5 History and Politics Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Bottom's Up 6 Performance Kate: Interpreting the Silence As You Like It Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.8.2003 |
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Reihe/Serie | Blackwell Guides to Criticism |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 151 x 239 mm |
Gewicht | 588 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-631-22011-9 / 0631220119 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-631-22011-4 / 9780631220114 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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