Author: Stanley Wells
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198718624
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Looking at his early life and education, this title explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which he drew. Examining the theatres and theatrical profession of the time, it also considers how Shakespeare experienced this world, both as an actor and as a writer. Examining Shakespeare's narrative poems, sonnets, and all of his plays, this VSI outlines their sources, style, and originality over the course of Shakespeare's career, to consider the fundamental impact his work has had for subsequent generations.
Preface: Why Shakespeare? ;Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon ;Theatre in Shakespeare's time ;Shakespeare in London ;Plays of the 1590s ;Shakespeare and comic form ;Return to tragedy ;The classical plays ;Tragi-comedy ;Epilogue ;Chronology: Shakespeare's works ;Further reading ;Index
Author: Stanley Wells
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198718624
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Looking at his early life and education, this title explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which he drew. Examining the theatres and theatrical profession of the time, it also considers how Shakespeare experienced this world, both as an actor and as a writer. Examining Shakespeare's narrative poems, sonnets, and all of his plays, this VSI outlines their sources, style, and originality over the course of Shakespeare's career, to consider the fundamental impact his work has had for subsequent generations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198718624
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Looking at his early life and education, this title explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which he drew. Examining the theatres and theatrical profession of the time, it also considers how Shakespeare experienced this world, both as an actor and as a writer. Examining Shakespeare's narrative poems, sonnets, and all of his plays, this VSI outlines their sources, style, and originality over the course of Shakespeare's career, to consider the fundamental impact his work has had for subsequent generations.
The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A Midsummer-night's Dream
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Moving Shakespeare Indoors
Author: Andrew Gurr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
King Lear
The Facts about Shakespeare
Author: William Allan Neilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide
Author: Emma Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521195233
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An indispensable reference tool for Shakespeare students and enthusiasts, this compact guide provides authoritative summaries of each of Shakespeare's works.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521195233
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An indispensable reference tool for Shakespeare students and enthusiasts, this compact guide provides authoritative summaries of each of Shakespeare's works.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Shakespeare: Invention of the Human
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 157322751X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition, Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarships: that Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 157322751X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition, Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarships: that Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today.
Common
Author: Neil Rhodes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198704100
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the 'common'.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198704100
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the 'common'.