| Description |
xxvi, 713 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Shakespeare's life and times. Why study Shakespeare? / Stanley Wells -- Shakespeare's life and career / Lois Potter -- Theatre in London / Gabriel Egan -- Shakespeare's audiences / Margaret Jane Kidnie -- Conventions of playwriting / Peter Thomson -- Shakespeare's fellow dramatists / A.R. Braunmuller -- The language of Shakespeare / David Crystal -- Shakespeare's verse / Russ McDonald -- The society of Shakespeare's England / Carole Levin -- Daily life in town and country / Joan Thirsk -- Love, sex, and marriage / Martin Ingram -- Changing attitudes towards religion / Peter Lake -- Ideas of order / Lena Cowen Orlin -- Shakespeare's view of the world / Emily C. Bartels -- Shakespearian genres. Introduction / Lena Cowen Orlin -- Romanitic comedies / William C. Carroll -- Reading: Twelfth night, or What you will -- English history plays / Phyllis Rackin -- Reading: Henry V -- Tragedies / Linda Woodbridge -- Reading: Macbeth -- Roman plays / Alexander Leggatt -- Reading: Julius Caesar -- Romances / Reginald Foakes -- Reading: The winter's tale -- Comical and tragical / Paul Edmondson -- Reading : Measure for measure -- Non-dramatic poetry / Lynne Magnusson -- Reading: Shakespeare's sonnets -- Unfamiliar Shakespeare / Alan Armstrong -- Shakespeare criticism. The critical tradition / Michael Taylor -- Humanist interpretation / Michael D. Bristol -- Reading: King Lear -- Character criticism / Christy Desmet -- Reading: Hamlet -- Source study / Leah Scragg -- Reading: As you like it -- Close reading / Inga-Stina Ewbank -- Reading: Richard III -- Feminist criticism / Jean E. Howard -- Reading: Othello -- Studies in sexuality / Bruce R. Smith -- Reading: The merchant of Venice -- Psychoanalytic criticisms / Lynn Enterline -- Reading: Venus and Adonis -- Materialist criticisms / Jonathan Gil Harris -- Reading: Henry IV part one -- Post-colonial criticism / Jyotsna Singh -- Reading: The tempest -- Deconstruction / Kiernan Ryan -- Reading: Romeo and Juliet -- Performance history : Shakespeare on the stage, 1660-2001 / Patricia Tatspaugh -- Reading: A midsummer night's dream -- Performance criticism / Miriam Gilbert -- Reading: The taming of the shrew -- Shakespeare's afterlife. Introduction / Terence Hawkes -- Shakespeare published / Laurie Maguire -- Shakespeare and the modern British theatre / Michael Billington -- Shakespeare on film and video / Tony Howard -- The question of authorship / David Kathman -- Shakespeare's influence / John Gross -- Shakespeare and translation / Ton Hoenselaars -- Commemorating Shakespeare / Georgianna Ziegler -- Internet and CD ROM resources / Michael Best. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Added Author |
Wells, Stanley, 1930-
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Orlin, Lena Cowen.
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| ISBN |
0199245223 paperback alkaline paper |
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