This is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety of Shakespeare's practice and the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited. The first section puts ...
Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity traces the linked themes of violation and identity through seven Shakespearean tragedies, beginning with the rape of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus. The implications of this event - its physical and moral shock, the way it puts Lavinia's identity, and the whole notion of identity, into crisis - ...
This book was first published in 1987. This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each play is a new combination of essentially similar ingredients, so that, for example ...
English Stage Comedy 1490-1990 is a unique and beautifully written study of the comedy of the English stage from the Tudor period to the late twentieth century. It shows how this remarkably enduring genre has dealt with the tensions of social life, using its conventions as tools for social inquiry. Through an examination of comedy, Alexander ...
William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is a timeless tale of love, greed, and power, which has given rise to heated debates around such issues as the representation of gender roles, political violence, and the dramatisation of evil. Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's play presents: extensive introductory comment on the contexts, ...
List of Illustrations; 1. Problems and choices; 2. John Gielgud and Harley Granville Barker; 3. Peter Brook and Paul Scofield; 4. Robin Philips and Peter Ustinov; 5. Adrian Noble, Michael Gambon and Anthony Sher; 6. Grigori Kozintsev; 7. Peter Brook; 8. Jonathan Miller and Michael Hordern; 9. Laurence Olivier; 10.
The public playhouses of Jacobean London, and the popular drama they produced, were a vital part of English theatre history. Yet this work has too often been neglected by conventional literary criticism. Jacobean Public Theatre recovers this vigorous popular drama for the modern reader by presenting the plays not as literary texts, but as ...
This guide provides a comprehensive introduction to Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline comedy, covering both public and private theatres, encompassing the eclective, experimental nature of this comedy: its departures from the mainstream New Comedy tradition and its searching, witty analysis of social and personal relations in court, city and ...
The distinctive voices of Renaissance playwrights can make a classroom come alive. This volume explores the compelling dramatic technique and rich language in a wide variety of well-known and less-familiar Renaissance plays. The essays collected here challenge teachers to help students, whose experience is usually limited to reading Shakespeare or ...
The distinctive voices of Renaissance playwrights can make a classroom come alive. This volume explores the compelling dramatic technique and rich language in a wide variety of well-known and less-familiar Renaissance plays. The essays collected here challenge teachers to help students, whose experience is usually limited to reading Shakespeare or ...
There is political interest everywhere in Shakespeare. Macbeth and Hamlet are concerned with kingship, Measure for Measure with law, The Tempest with power. Shakespeare is consistently interested in rulers, law, questions of authority and obedience - as well as the politics of personal relationships. In this book Alexander Leggatt concentrates on ...
Through a study of eight 20th-century stage and screen productions of "King Lear", this book examines the way in which performance and interpretation are bound together. It aims to show how different performances have illuminated the radical contradictions within the text itself.
The most important period in the history of English drama is revealed in Alexander Leggatt's challenging account. The author considers English drama from the beginning of Shakespeare's career to the restoration of Charles II. Focusing on Shakespeare and the development of his art, he examines all his major contemporaries: Jonson, Middleton, ...
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library, typical markings. Binding tight, text clean. Edges stamped and lightly soiled. Boards have bumps and edge wear plus light soiling along edges. Jacket is clean with scratches, scuffs and edge wear. Solid book, 559... Hardcover. Sewn binding. 559 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Batsford Ltd
Date Published: 26/02/1981
ISBN-13:9780713418866ISBN:0713418869
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Batsford Ltd
Date Published: 26/02/1981
ISBN-13:9780713418866ISBN:0713418869
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
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