| Description |
xviii, 268 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Love and hatred: Courtly love -- Romance -- Men and men, women and women -- Family -- Warfare: Stage -- Cause -- Soldiers -- Henry V -- Madness and melancholy: Madness -- Feigned madness -- Melancholy -- Hamlet -- Prince: Gaining power -- Keeping power -- Losing power -- Love versus duty -- Kingship -- Illusion: Stage -- Play within a play -- Masks -- disguises -- Mistaken identities -- Strange shapes -- Universal order: Chain as one -- Chain as links -- Political order -- Supernatural: Ghosts -- Witches and soothsayers -- Clerics -- Deus ex Machina -- Magicians and Fairies -- Evil (and good): Evil by nature -- villains for cause -- Shylock -- Evil women -- Comic villains -- Good -- Hero: Martial hero -- Antihero -- Tragic hero -- Comic muse: Court fops and nincompoops -- Fools and clowns -- Insults -- Double meanings, puns and malaprops -- Falstaff -- Choric voice: Commoners as chorus -- Characters as chorus -- Choruses as chorus -- Epilogue -- Index. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stories, plots, etc.
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| ISBN |
1566634571 alkaline paper |
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9781566634571 alkaline paper |
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