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Main Author: Egan, Gabriel 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press c2007
Series:Edinburgh critical guides to literature
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Online Access:UBW01
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-273) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 282 p.)
ISBN:9780748630165
0748630163

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