ShakespeareEdinburgh University Press, 2007 - 282 Seiten Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Halliwell and Andy Mousley This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the reader's understanding of key literary movements, periods and genres, and consider debates that inform the past, present and future of literary study. Resources such as glossaries of key terms and details of archives and internet sites are also provided, making each volume a comprehensive critical guide. Shakespeare (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series) Gabriel Egan This book helps the reader make sense of the most commonly studied writer in the world. It starts with a brief explanation of how Shakespeare's writings have come down to us as a series of scripts for actors in the early modern theatre industry of London. The main chapters of the book approach the texts through a series of questions: 'what's changed since Shakespeare's time?', 'to what uses has Shakespeare been put?', and 'what value is there in Shakespeare?' These questions go to the heart of why we study Shakespeare at all, which question the book encourages the readers to answer for themselves in relation to their own critical writing. Key Features * A chronology of Shakespeare's career as an actor/dramatist that locates him within the theatre industry of his time * New readings of twelve plays that form a core of the Shakespeare canon: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard 2, Henry 5, Hamlet, Othello, All's Well that Ends Well, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, and Timon of Athens * Critical analyses organized by genre (comedies, histories, tragedies, and romance) and by four key critical approaches: authorship, performance, identities, and materialism * An extensive resources section, including a glossary of the i |
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... father who has done precisely that . Also , it is odd to hear Hamlet talking of ' the law's delay , | The insolence of office , and the spurns | That patient merit of th ' unworthy takes ' for these are things of which , as prince of ...
... father who has done precisely that . Also , it is odd to hear Hamlet talking of ' the law's delay , | The insolence of office , and the spurns | That patient merit of th ' unworthy takes ' for these are things of which , as prince of ...
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... father , so Othello has taken Desdemona from Brabanzio . The cyclical pattern of marriage and parenthood visits upon the father the same treatment he visited upon his father - in - law . Likewise at the start of King Lear Goneril and ...
... father , so Othello has taken Desdemona from Brabanzio . The cyclical pattern of marriage and parenthood visits upon the father the same treatment he visited upon his father - in - law . Likewise at the start of King Lear Goneril and ...
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... father by imagining him as her husband . The contradiction Cordelia observes - that her sisters swear absolute love for their father and reserve none for their husbands - is ' solved ' by this impossible marriage . Of course , by the ...
... father by imagining him as her husband . The contradiction Cordelia observes - that her sisters swear absolute love for their father and reserve none for their husbands - is ' solved ' by this impossible marriage . Of course , by the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 19 |
Richard 2 and Henry 5 | 46 |
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