ShakespeareEdinburgh University Press, 2007 - 282 páginas 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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... things fancy ( in appearance , demeanour , behaviour , and language ) have replaced things plain . In his tragedy ... thing that an audience might have been expected to know about Theseus of Athens is that he was a great warrior , and ...
... things fancy ( in appearance , demeanour , behaviour , and language ) have replaced things plain . In his tragedy ... thing that an audience might have been expected to know about Theseus of Athens is that he was a great warrior , and ...
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... thing ) was Elizabethan slang for the vagina . " Thus Hamlet is making a crude joke at Ophelia's expense ( and all the more shock- ing as her father is present ) in the following exchange : HAMLET ( to Ophelia ) Lady , shall I lie in ...
... thing ) was Elizabethan slang for the vagina . " Thus Hamlet is making a crude joke at Ophelia's expense ( and all the more shock- ing as her father is present ) in the following exchange : HAMLET ( to Ophelia ) Lady , shall I lie in ...
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... things were going badly for you - say your crops failed , or your home collapsed , or your family died of the plague ? The same principle that God guides everything would lead you to conclude that you were being punished , and indeed ...
... things were going badly for you - say your crops failed , or your home collapsed , or your family died of the plague ? The same principle that God guides everything would lead you to conclude that you were being punished , and indeed ...
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Introduction | 1 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 19 |
Richard 2 and Henry 5 | 46 |
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