Book Description
An indispensable reference tool for Shakespeare students and enthusiasts, this compact guide provides authoritative summaries of each of Shakespeare's works.
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521195233
An indispensable reference tool for Shakespeare students and enthusiasts, this compact guide provides authoritative summaries of each of Shakespeare's works.
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139462393
This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with resources for independent research through the 'Where next?' sections at the end of each chapter. The book draws on scholarship without being overwhelmed by it, and unlike other introductory guides to Shakespeare it emphasizes that there is space for new and fresh thinking by students and readers, even on the most-studied and familiar plays.
Author : Bruce R. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2016
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781107057258
This transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary work will be of interest to students, theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781139336345
An indispensable reference tool for Shakespeare students and enthusiasts, this compact guide provides authoritative summaries of each of Shakespeare's works.
Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108623298
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus on the concepts of sexuality, lineage, nationality, and globalization. The collection helps students to grapple with the unique role performance plays in constructions of race by Shakespeare (and in Shakespearean performances), considering both historical and contemporary actors and directors. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race will be the first book that truly frames Shakespeare studies and early modern race studies for a non-specialist, student audience.
Author : Margreta de Grazia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139825984
This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.
Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107495024
This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.
Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521797115
This 2002 Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through to the present day. Each relates Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns and adopts an individual approach and focus, on textual adaptation, acting, stages, scenery or theatre management. These are followed by three explorations of acting: tragic and comic actors and women performers of Shakespeare roles. A section on international performance includes chapters on interculturalism, on touring companies and on political theatre, with separate accounts of the performing traditions of North America, Asia and Africa. Over forty pictures illustrate peformers and productions of Shakespeare from around the world. An amalgamated list of items for further reading completes the book.
Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521779425
An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.
Author : Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107172594
A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.