UID:
almafu_9959228062402883
Format:
1 online resource (305 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-22483-9
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1-78034-354-X
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9786611224837
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0-7486-3016-3
Series Statement:
Edinburgh critical guides to literature
Content:
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 themsel
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; PART I: Dramatic Genres; 1. Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado about Nothing; 2. Histories: Richard 2 and Henry 5; 3. Tragedies: Hamlet and Othello; 4. Problem Plays and Romances: All's Well that Ends Well and The Winter's Tale; PART II: Critical Approaches; 5. Authority and Authorship: Measure for Measure; 6. Performance: Macbeth; 7. Identities: The Tempest; 8. Materialism: Timon of Athens; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-2371-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780748630165
