Reading Shakespeare
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-352-00436-6 (ISBN)
An essential introductory text that provides students with a lively and enjoyable tour of Shakespeare's life, his writing career and the theatre of his time. Concise yet comprehensive, the guide examines the texts of twenty widely-studied plays, and the Sonnets, illuminating both their original contexts and their later reception. Lucidly written, with no jargon, this is an invaluable overview of Shakespeare's life and works for students who may be studying Shakespeare for the first time.
This is an ideal set text for modules on Shakespeare, Jacobean Drama or Renaissance/ Early Modern Literature which may be offered at all levels of an undergraduate Literature degree. In addition it is a helpful resource for students who may be studying Shakespeare’s plays as part of a taught postgraduate degree in Literature.
New to this Edition:
- New material on politics and history
- Clearer chapter titles and explanation of the scope and rationale of the book
- Updated and expanded bibliography with more on gender, performance, politics and history
MICHAEL ALEXANDER was Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews, UK. He was a poet and translator and had international experience of teaching English literature, both medieval and modern. He is the author of the bestselling A History of English Literature, now in its third edition, and his translations of Beowulf and other Old English poems have sold a million copies.
Preface
Chapter 1: First Things
Career in brief
Authorship
Play and page
Printed Books
Posthumous Publication
Chapter 2: The Recorded Life
Stratford and Family
Education
Chapter 3: Plays, Players, Playwright
Shake-scene
What kind of Scene?
Immediate Predecessors
First Plays
Language
Verse
Chapter 4 : Poetic Dramatist
Love's Labour's Lost
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Chapter 5: Histories
Richard II
Henry IV
Henry V
Comprehensiveness
Versatilty
Chapter 6: The Merchant of Venice and The Whirligig of Time
Chapter 7: To the Globe
Much Ado About Nothing
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
'Shake-speare's Sonnets'
Chapter 8: Hamlet and Horatio's Question
Chapter 9: Taken to Extremes
Problem plays
Measure for Measure
Chapter 10: Tragedies
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Chapter 11: Late Romances
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
Chapter 12: Retrospect
Shakespeare's supposed point of view
'Read him therefore'
Notes
Further Reading
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.11.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 190 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-352-00436-4 / 1352004364 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-352-00436-6 / 9781352004366 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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