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Shakespeare's Comedies


Shakespeare's Comedies


Blackwell Guides to Criticism 1. Aufl.

von: Emma Smith

36,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.04.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9780470776919
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 336

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This <i>Guide</i> introduces students to critical writing on Shakespeare’s comedies over the last four centuries. <br /> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays.<br /> </li> <li>Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions.<br /> </li> <li>Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context.<br /> </li> <li>Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.</li> </ul>
Preface. <p>Acknowledgements.</p> <p>1 The Development of Criticism of Shakespeare's Comedies.</p> <p>2 Genre.</p> <p>Marriage as Comic Closure.</p> <p>False Immortality in Measure for Measure.</p> <p>3 Language.</p> <p>Here Follows Prose.</p> <p>Transfer of Title in Love's Labour's Lost.</p> <p>4 Gender and Sexuality.</p> <p>Helena's Bed-trick.</p> <p>The Homoerotics of Shakespearian.</p> <p>Comedy.</p> <p>5 History and Politics.</p> <p>Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?.</p> <p>Bottom's Up.</p> <p>6 Performance.</p> <p>Kate: Interpreting the Silence.</p> <p>As You Like It.</p> <p>Index</p>
"clearly designed to make friendly that enormous and daunting edifice of Shakespeare criticism. [...] extremely helful historical and generic overviews" <i>THES</i><br /> <p>[and talking about all three books together:]<br /> </p> <p>"Altogether, either as the source of critical thinking or as reference guides and bibliographies, these volumes will prove convenient and interesting as auhtoritatively conducted tours of their domains." <i>THES</i></p>
<b>Emma Smith</b> is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in English at Oxford University. Her publications include <i>Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie</i> (ed. 1998) and <i>Shakespeare in Production: Henry V </i>(2000).
Criticism of Shakespeare’s comedies has shifted from stressing their light-hearted and festive qualities to giving a stronger sense of their dark aspects and their social resonances. This volume introduces the key critical debates under five headings: genre, history and politics, gender and sexuality, language, and performance. <br /> <p> The <i>Guide</i> serves students of Shakespeare in two ways. Firstly, by presenting ten recent critical interventions in the field of Shakespeare studies, it provides an up-to-date compendium of current scholarship. All the articles are contextualised with brief critical overviews and annotated suggestions for further reading. An additional chapter on pre-twentieth-century criticism is mainly in narrative form but excerpts significant early views by Johnson, Hazlitt and Coleridge. Thus, secondly, the volume acts as a guide to further reading to help students extend their knowledge of Shakespeare criticism.</p>
"clearly designed to make friendly that enormous and daunting edifice of Shakespeare criticism. [...] extremely helful historical and generic overviews" <i>THES</i><br /> <p>[and talking about all three books together:]<br /> </p> <p>"Altogether, either as the source of critical thinking or as reference guides and bibliographies, these volumes will prove convenient and interesting as auhtoritatively conducted tours of their domains." <i>THES</i></p>

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