A companion to Shakespeare's works . Volume I The tragedies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (504 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.33
• Soggetto topico: English drama (Tragedy)
• Altri autori: DuttonRichard <1948-> HowardJean E <1948-> (Jean Elizabeth)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Companion to Shakespeare's Works; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 "A rarity most beloved": Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy; 2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries; 3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions; 4 The Divided Tragic Hero; 5 Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy; 6 Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England; 7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History; 8 Text and Tragedy ; 9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity10 Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies; 11 Tragedy and Geography; 12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times; 13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies; 14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge; 15 "There is no world without Verona walls": The City in Romeo and Juliet; 16 "He that thou knowest thine": Friendship and Service in Hamlet; 17 Julius Caesar; 18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness; 19 King Lear; 20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past ; 21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art; 23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to g
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to Shakespeare's works
• ISBN: 1-78268-712-2; 1-281-31227-4; 9786611312275; 0-470-70404-7; 0-470-99653-6; 0-470-99727-3; 1-4175-3641-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996197712703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 17.