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Author Shaughnessy, Robert, 1962-

Title The Routledge guide to William Shakespeare / Robert Shaughnessy
Edition First edition
Published Abingdon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011

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Description xvi, 486 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Contents note continued: A cinema for a new century -- Jump cuts -- 2.Performance -- The complete Shakespeare -- Five decades of performance criticism -- The exemplary RSC -- Revolution and after -- Staging history -- The reinvention of Shakespeare's Globe -- Enter theory -- From theory to practice -- Beyond Shakespeare -- Beyond words -- A Shakespearean chronology: 1899-2008
Contents note continued: A wilderness of tigers -- Baked in that pie -- The Taming of the Shrew -- Richard III -- Venus and Adonis and Lucrece -- Desire sees best of all -- Graver labour -- A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet -- A dream past the wit of man -- Death-marked love -- The Merchant of Venice -- King John and Richard II -- Beginnings -- Endings -- Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 -- A double man -- Chimes at midnight -- Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing and As You Like It -- Cakes and ale -- A kind of merry war -- No clock in the forest -- Much virtue in 'if' -- The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V -- Ashore at Windsor -- Star of England -- Julius Caesar -- Hamlet -- Who's there? -- Hamlet's transformations -- Revenge -- Mad in craft -- The readiness is all -- Troilus and Cressida, All's Well that Ends Well and Measure for Measure -- Bifold authority -- All yet seems well -- Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure --
Contents note continued: Questioning authority: the 1960's -- Shakespeare their contemporary -- Refashioning the Renaissance -- Subversion and containment -- Dreams of power -- Connections, locations, intersections -- Cultural materialism -- Tragically radical, radically tragic -- Eminent Shakespeareans -- After theory: history bites back -- Materialities -- Presentism -- Spiritualities -- 2.Languages -- Close reading -- Words and images -- Post-structuralism -- Truth's true contents -- Language in history -- Rhetorics, metrics, linguistics -- Speaking the speech -- 3.Subjectivities -- Character building -- Bradley and Freud -- Women's parts -- The patriarchal Bard -- Changing the subject -- The boy actress -- Broadening the field -- What becomes a man -- Queer reading -- Characters reunited -- Children too -- 1.Film -- Stage, page and screen -- The theatrical, the realist and the filmic -- Differences in view -- Textualities and sexualities -- World pictures --
Contents note continued: Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint -- Beauty's rose -- Master-mistress -- Nothing like the sun -- Rich in Will -- This double voice -- Othello -- Othellophobia -- Othellophilia -- Timon of Athens -- King Lear -- Ye gods -- Monsters of the deep -- Every inch a king -- The terrors of the earth -- The division of the kingdom(s) -- Macbeth -- The milk of human kindness -- Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra -- O me alone -- Body politics -- The wide arch -- Past the size of dreaming -- Immortal longings -- The Tempest -- This island's mine -- Thing of darkness -- Plantation of this isle -- The Winter's Tale -- Things dying -- Things new-born -- Pericles, Cymbeline and The Two Noble Kinsmen -- To sing a song that old was sung -- Dreams and visions -- Two cousins and a daughter -- Henry VIII, or All Is True -- Prologue: a critical century -- 1.Histories -- Ruling ideas -- In all line of order: E.M.W. Tillyard's historicism -- Tillyard's legacy --
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Son of Stratford -- Shakespeare's biographies -- 2.Shakespeare's early years -- Schooling -- Religion and resistance -- 3.A life in writing -- Early sightings -- Making a name -- Plays in print -- Poetry and patronage -- Making history -- Poet and player -- The Lord Chamberlain's Men -- Dangerous games: Falstaff and Essex -- Courting comedy -- Everyday entertainments -- This distracted Globe -- Little eyases -- The King's Men -- Court dramatists -- Jacobean tragedy -- Blackfriars -- Collaborations and departures -- 4.Final years -- Welcombe -- Will and testament -- Two monuments -- Chronology: 1564-1644 -- A catalogue -- Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3 -- Alarums and excursions -- Let's kill all the lawyers -- To catch the English Crown -- A Talbot -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost and The Comedy of Errors -- The letter very orderly -- Too long for a play -- Like brother and brother -- Titus Andronicus --
Summary Key Features --
William Shakespeare is one of the most widely studied and culturally significant writers of all time, and his language and thought remain interwoven through popular reference and imaginings of the Western canon. Demystifying and contextualizing Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginning students and an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans. --
examines each of Shakespeare's plays in turn, considering issues of historical context, contemporary criticism and performance history --
includes detailed chronologies of Shakespeare's life and works and also of twentieth-century criticism --Book Jacket
introduces Shakespeare's life and works in context, providing crucial historical background --
looks at contemporary performances of Shakespeare on stage and screen --
provides a detailed discussion of twentieth-century Shakespearean criticism, exploring the theories, debates and discoveries that have shaped our understanding of Shakespeare today --
provides useful further critical reading by play --
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Biography.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
Biographies.
LC no. 2010024259
ISBN 0415275393 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415275407 (paperback: alk. paper)
9780415275392 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415275408 (paperback: alk. paper)