ShakespeareEdinburgh University Press, 21.11.2007 - 224 Seiten This book helps the reader make sense of the most commonly studied writer in the world. It starts with a brief explanation of how Shakespeare's writings have come down to us as a series of scripts for actors in the early modern theatre industry of London. The main chapters of the book approach the texts through a series of questions: 'what's changed since Shakespeare's time?', 'to what uses has Shakespeare been put?', and 'what value is there in Shakespeare?' These questions go to the heart of why we study Shakespeare at all, which question the book encourages the readers to answer for themselves in relation to their own critical writing. |
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... scenes is that of expectation, not of plot tension. This premature resolution is not unique to this play: the final act of The Merchant of Venice has often been seen as something of a redundant ... scene.
... scenes is that of expectation, not of plot tension. This premature resolution is not unique to this play: the final act of The Merchant of Venice has often been seen as something of a redundant ... scene.
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Gabriel Egan. redundant adjunct tacked onto the end of the trial scene. What is unusual is that in A Midsummer Night's Dream most of the final act is taken up with a dramatic performance being presented to the play's protagonists. It is ...
Gabriel Egan. redundant adjunct tacked onto the end of the trial scene. What is unusual is that in A Midsummer Night's Dream most of the final act is taken up with a dramatic performance being presented to the play's protagonists. It is ...
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... scene in the light of what he has been told by Oberon – an Athenian youth disdains a woman who loves him – and the reality of a loving but modest couple fits the facts just as well as the unhappy couple would. The most important fairy ...
... scene in the light of what he has been told by Oberon – an Athenian youth disdains a woman who loves him – and the reality of a loving but modest couple fits the facts just as well as the unhappy couple would. The most important fairy ...
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... scene descend into incoherence. The trick starts in the first scene with the agreement between Don Pedro and Claudio that at the masked celebration the former will woo Hero on the part of the latter: [DON PEDRO] I will assume thy part ...
... scene descend into incoherence. The trick starts in the first scene with the agreement between Don Pedro and Claudio that at the masked celebration the former will woo Hero on the part of the latter: [DON PEDRO] I will assume thy part ...
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... scene. Just which of those two responses we make as readers is not an idle matter of interpretation that we can keep separate from the play's meanings to its first audiences, for just what Don Pedro and Claudio have in mind is almost ...
... scene. Just which of those two responses we make as readers is not an idle matter of interpretation that we can keep separate from the play's meanings to its first audiences, for just what Don Pedro and Claudio have in mind is almost ...
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Richard 2 and Henry 5 | 46 |
Hamlet and Othello | 81 |
Alls Well that Ends Well and The Winters Tale | 121 |
Critical Approaches | 157 |
Measure for Measure | 159 |
Macbeth | 180 |
The Tempest | 203 |
Timon of Athens | 225 |
Conclusion | 248 |
Student Resources | 252 |
Index | 274 |
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