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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.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2976 .S35 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
- 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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