| Description |
xv, 300 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Shakespeare: text and performance |
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Shakespeare, text and performance.
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. Sources and Analogues. 1. A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1.1. The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) / Reginald Scot. 1.2. Metamorphoses, Book IV, trans. Arthur Golding (1567) / Ovid. 2. Richard II. A Myrroure for Magistrates (1559): 'How kyng Richarde the seconde was for his evyll governaunce deposed from his seat and miserably murdered in prison'. 3. Macbeth. Chronicles (1587) / Raphael Holinshed. 4. Antony and Cleopatra. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, trans. Thomas North (1579). 5. Hamlet. 5.1. The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1582-92) / Thomas Kyd. 5.2. 'Of Revenge' (1625) / Francis Bacon. 6. Twelfth Night. Riche his Farewell to Militaire Profession (1581) / Barnabe Riche. 7. Measure for Measure. Hecatommithi (1583) / G. B. Giraldi Cinthio. 8. King Lear. 8.1. The Faerie Queene (1590-6) / Edmund Spenser. 8.2. Arcadia (1590) / Philip Sidney. 9. The Tempest. 9.1. 'The Strachey Letter' (1610). 9.2. Metamorphoses / Ovid -- Pt. 2. Critical Readings. 1. A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1.1. 'The Imperial Votaress' / Louis Montrose. 1.2. 'The Staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1595-1895' / Jay L. Halio -- Interval 1. Shakespeare's Theatre. 'The Elizabethan Drama' / Robert Weimann. 2. Richard II. 2.1. 'The Political Background of Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV' / John Dover Wilson. 2.2. 'Richard II' / Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin. 3. Macbeth. 3.1. 'How Many Children had Lady Macbeth?' / L. C. Knights. 3.2. 'Macbeth: History, Ideology and Intellectuals' / Alan Sinfield. 3.3. 'Macbeth on Film: Politics' / E. Pearlman. 4. Antony and Cleopatra. 4.1. 'Jacobean Antony and Cleopatra' / H. Neville Davies. 4.2. 'Squeaking Cleopatras. Gender and Performance in Antony and Cleopatra' / Juliet Dusinberre. 4.3. 'Spatial Politics' / Ania Loomba -- Interval 2. Editing Shakespeare's Plays. 'What Is an Editor?' / Stephen Orgel. 5. Hamlet. 5.1. 'Hamlet - the Mona Lisa of Literature' / Jacqueline Rose. 5.2. 'Telmah' / Terence Hawkes. 6. Twelfth Night. 6.1. 'Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night' / C. L. Barber. 6.2. 'The Two Antonios and Same-Sex Love in Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice' / J. Pequigney. 7. Measure for Measure. 7.1. 'Measure for Measure' / F. R. Leavis. 7.2. 'London in Measure for Measure' / Leah Marcus. 8. King Lear. 8.1. 'From Hamlet to Lear' / Arnold Kettle. 8.2. 'The Absent Mother in King Lear' / Coppelia Kahn. 8.3. 'Grigori Kozintsev's King Lear' / Alexander Leggatt. 9. The Tempest. 9.1. '"What Cares These Roarers for the Name of King?": Language and Utopia in The Tempest' / David Norbrook. 9.2. 'African and Caribbean Appropriations of The Tempest' / Rob Nixon -- Pt. 3. Critical Interventions. 1. 'The National Poet' / Jonathan Bate. 2. 'The Present Tense' / Gary Taylor. 3. 'New Ways to Play Old Texts. Discourses of the Past' / Susan Bennett |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Author |
Brown, Richard Danson.
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Johnson, David, 1962 May 20-
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| ISBN |
0312230397 St. Martin's |
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0312230400 paperback St. Martin's |
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0333913140 Macmillan |
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0333913159 paperback Macmillan |
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