All of Shakespeare
In All of Shakespeare, Maurice Charney, former president of the Shakespeare Association of America, provides a play by play, poem by poem, guide to all of Shakespeare's works. In forty-three succinct and lucid chapters, Charney brings to life every play, from The Comedy of Errors to The Tempest, in addition to the long poems and the Sonnets. Charney emphasizes that we need to look at Shakespeare not so much as a Renaissance thinker but as a dramatist, a poet, and a creator of fictions. Emphasizing style and character development as opposed to ideology, Charney's commentary, which rests on forty years of teaching and writing about Shakespeare, illuminates the countless interconnections among the plays and poems
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 424 pages ; 23 cm
9780231068628, 9780231068635, 023106862X, 0231068638
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Comedies. The Comedy of Errors. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Love's Labor's Lost. The Taming of the Shrew. A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Merchant of Venice. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Much Ado About Nothing. As You Like It. Twelfth Night. Troilus and Cressida. All's Well That Ends Well. Measure for Measure
Histories. Henry VI, Part I. Henry VI, Part II. Henry VI, Part III. Richard III. King John. Richard II. Henry IV, Part I. Henry IV, Part II. Henry V. Henry VIII
Tragedies. Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Julius Caesar. Hamlet. Othello. King Lear. Macbeth. Antony and Cleopatra. Coriolanus. Timon of Athens
Romances. Pericles. Cymbeline. The Winter's Tale. The Tempest. The Two Noble Kinsmen
Poems. Venus and Adonis. The Rape of Lucrece. The Sonnets. A Lover's Complaint. The Phoenix and the Turtle
Includes index