Reading Shakespeare
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-1-352-00442-7 (ISBN)
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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 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 190 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-352-00442-9 / 1352004429 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-352-00442-7 / 9781352004427 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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