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UNINA9910964792403321 |
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Autore |
Hattaway Michael |
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Titolo |
William Shakespeare : King Richard II / / Michael Hattaway |
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Tirril [England], : Humanities-Ebooks, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-78440-0 |
9786611784409 |
1-84760-034-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (111 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover ""; ""Copyright and Licence""; ""Title Page""; ""Frontispiece""; ""Contents""; ""The Author""; ""Preface""; ""1. The Education of a Player and Playwright""; ""2. Richard II in Context""; ""3. Alignments and Allegiances""; ""4. Theatrical Conventions""; ""4.1. Scenic Structure""; ""4.2. Texture""; ""4.3. Verse and Personality (or Inwardness)""; ""5. Close reading ""; ""5.1. The Duel and Bolingbroke�s Banishment (1.1�4)""; ""5.2 The Death of Gaunt, Richard in Ireland, and Bolingbroke�s Return (2.1�3.1)""; ""5.3. Richard�s Return (3.2)"" |
""5.4. Confrontation and Abdication (3.3�4.1)""""5.5. Richard to Prison and Aumerle�s Conspiracy (5.1�3)""; ""5.6. Richard�s Passion and Death and Bolingbroke�s Reaction (5.4�5.6) ""; ""6. Critical accounts""; ""6.1. Lyricism and the elegiac""; ""6.2. Historical and Political""; ""6.3. Feminist Readings""; ""6.4. Theatrical Readings""; ""7. Select annotated Bibliography""; ""Insights"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An authoritative study of Richard II in its theatrical, cultural and political contexts. Professor Hattaway's study places Richard II within the contexts of Shakespeare's life and of the strenuous political debates that were taking place at the end of the |
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