Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Preface
Prefaces to Shakespeare
Author: Tony TannerPublisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 9780674064249
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the final ten years of his life, Tony Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on, writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture to close readings of Shakespeare's deployment of complex words in his plays.--[book jacket].
The Works of William Shakespeare: Preface to the first edition. Preface to the second edition. Pericles. Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Phoenix and turtle. Reprints: Merry wives of Windsor. Chronicle historie of Henry the Fift. First part of the contention. True tragedie. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Additions and corrections
Author: William ShakespearePreface to Shakespeare
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732694674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare
Author: Emma SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462393
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
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.
Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v. 2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v. 3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v. 4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v. 5 King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v. 6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v. 7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v. 8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
Author: William ShakespearePrefaces to Shakespeare
Author: Harley Granville-BarkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The Works of Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespeareThe Plays of William Shakspeare. ....
Author: William ShakespeareA Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies
Author: Michael ManganPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317895045
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context. Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare's comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.