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Shaw on Shakespeare : an anthology of Bernard Shaw's writings on the plays and production of Shakespeare / edited by Edwin Wilson.

Van Pelt Library PR2976 .S35 2002
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
Contributor:
Wilson, Edwin, 1927-
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Prose works. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Criticism and interpretation.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 280 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Applause, [2002]
Summary:
Culled from Shaw's reviews, prefaces, letters to actors and critics, and other writings, this book offers a fascinating portrait of the Elizabethan playwright by his most outspoken critic.
Contents:
The Plays 5
All's Well That Ends Well 5
Antony and Cleopatra 13
As You Like It 21
The Comedy of Errors 33
Cymbeline 39
Hamlet 75
Henry IV, Part 1 96
Henry V 102
Henry VI, Part 1 103
Julius Caesar 104
King Lear 111
Love's Labour's Lost 112
Macbeth 115
Measure for Measure 123
The Merry Wives of Windsor 124
A Midsummer Night's Dream 125
Much Ado About Nothing 135
Othello 152
Richard III 157
Romeo and Juliet 168
The Taming of the Shrew 178
The Tempest 183
Troilus and Cressida 186
Twelfth Night 188
Two Gentlemen of Verona 192
The Man 198
The Philosopher 204
'Better than Shakespear?' 204
The Artist-Philosopher 213
A Void in the Elizabethan Drama 217
The Moral Order in Writing 219
Shakespeare and Bunyan 221
The Difference between Brieux and Moliere or Shakespeare 225
Shakespeare and Ibsen 227
The Dramatist 230
A Dressing Room Secret 233
The 'Shakespearean Law' 240
A Debt to Burbage 241
Tragedy, Comedy, and Tragi-Comedy 242
The Interpreters 245
'Bad' Shakespeare 245
A Prompt Book for Hamlet? 248
Shakespeare and Romantic Acting 250
Henry Irving 252
Herbert Beerbohm Tree 253
'On Cutting Shakespear' 255
'Shakespear: A Standard Text' 260
Shakes Versus Shav 265.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1557835616
OCLC:
49690475

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