| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 369 pages) |
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Blackwell guides to criticism |
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Blackwell guides to criticism.
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| Contents |
pt. I. Criticism 1590-1904 -- Before Bradley: Criticism 1590-1904 -- pt. II. Twentieth-century criticism -- Genre: an overview -- Genre: critical extracts -- King Lear and essentialist humanism / Jonathan Dollimore -- Coriolanus and interpretations of politics / Stanley Cavell -- Character: an overview -- Character: critical extracts -- The resources of characterization in Othello / Peter Holland -- The woman in Hamlet: an interpersonal view / David Leverenz -- Language: an overview -- Language: critical extracts -- Antony and Cleopatra / Frank Kermode -- Imperfect speakers / Malcolm Evans -- Gender and sexuality: an overview -- Gender and sexuality: critical extracts -- The daughter's seduction in Titus Andronicus / Coppélia Kahn -- Femininity and the monstrous in Othello / Karen Newman -- History and politics: an overview -- History and politics: critical extracts -- Macbeth and the 'name of king' / David Scott Kastan -- 'Is this a holiday?' Shakespeare's Roman carnival / Richard Wilson -- Texts: an overview -- Texts: critical extracts -- Quarto and folio King Lear / Michael Warren -- Bad taste and bad Hamlet / Leah Marcus -- Performance: an overview -- Performance: critical extracts -- Titus Andronicus / Brian Cox -- Baz Luhrmann's millennial Shakespeare / James N. Loehlin |
| Summary |
Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one brand new essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings of the plays are given in the context of genre as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume, contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a national context, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history of reception and performance --Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 28, 2008) |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragedies.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. fast (OCoLC)fst00029048 |
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Shakespeare, William. swd |
| Subject |
Tragedy.
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tragedies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Criticism and interpretation.
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Tragedy.
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Tragödie
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Tragedies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Emma (Emma Josephine)
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| ISBN |
9780470775776 |
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0470775777 |
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9780470776896 |
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0470776897 |
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