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The student's guide to Shakespeare / William McKenzie.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2895 .M45 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- M'Kenzie, William, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Outlines, syllabi, etc.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Examinations.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Examinations--Study guides.
- Genre:
- Outlines and syllabi.
- Young adult literature.
- Study guides.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- This book is a 'one-stop-shop' for the busy undergraduate studying Shakespeare. Offering detailed guidance to the plays most often taught on undergraduate courses, the volume targets the topics tutors choose for essay questions and is organized to help students find the information they need quickly. Each text discussion contains sections on sources, characters, performance, themes, language, and critical history, helping students identify the different ways of approaching a text. The book's unique play-based structure and character-center approach allows students to easily navigate the material. The flexibility of the design allows students to either read cover-to-cover, target a specific play, or explore elements of a narrative unit such as imagery or characterization. The reader will gain quickly a full grasp of the kind of dramatist William Shakespeare was - and is. -- from publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I. Tragedies
- Romeo and Juliet
- Hamlet
- Othello
- Macbeth
- King Lear
- Anthony and Cleopatra
- Part II. Comedies
- A midsummer night's dream
- The merchant of Venice
- Twelfth night, or what you will
- Measure for measure
- Part III. Histories
- 'The Henraid (Richard II, Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2, Henry V)
- The Henry VI trilogy and Richard III
- Part IV. Late plays
- The winter's tale
- The tempest.
- Notes:
- Includes chronology.
- Includes glossary.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781474413534
- 1474413536
- OCLC:
- 978250603
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