Shakespeare : texts and contexts / edited by Kiernan Ryan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ryan, Kiernan, 1950-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Shakespeare, text and performance

Shakespeare: text and performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Problems, exercises, etc.

Genre:

Problems and exercises.

Physical Description:

vi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, [2000]

Summary:

This volume focuses on both the texts of Shakespeare's plays, and the many contexts in which they have been produced, from their first performances to contemporary reproductions. This book introduces nine of Shakespeare's major plays and focuses on the critical practices of close reading, historical contextualisation, and a lively question-and-answer teaching style. There is also detailed attention to Shakespeare on stage, on film, and in the new communications technologies and to new theoretical approaches to Shakespeare's plays.

Contents:

Chapter 1 A Midsummer Night's Dream / Penny Rixon 1

Interval 1 Shakespeare's Theatre / Helen Hackett 31

Chapter 2 Richard II / Margaret Healy 49

Chapter 3 Macbeth / Stephen Regan 81

Chapter 4 Antony and Cleopatra / Arnold Kettle, Cicely Palser Havely 125

Interval 2 Editing Shakespeare's Plays / Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor 155

Chapter 5 Hamlet / Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor 167

Chapter 6 Twelfth Night / Penny Rixon 189

Chapter 7 Measure for Measure / Dennis Walder 213

Chapter 8 King Lear / Graham Martin, Stephen Regan 241

Chapter 9 The Tempest / Pat Scorer 277

Afterword: The Future of Shakespeare / Kiernan Ryan 305.

Notes:

"In association with the Open University."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-319) and index.

ISBN:

0333913175

0312230354

0312230362

OCLC:

42680467