William Shakespeare Volume 1, 1623-1692 / edited by Brian Vickers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vickers, Brian.

Series:

Critical heritage series

William Shakespeare ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 p.)

Edition:

New Edition

Other Title:

1623-1692

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Routledge, 1974.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later per

Contents:

Cover; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; NOTE ON THE TEXT; 1 BEN JONSON on Shakespeare, 1623, c. 1630; 2 LEONARD DIGGES, commendatory verses, 1640; 3 ABRAHAM WRIGHT on Othello and Hamlet, c. 1655; 4 SAMUEL PEPYS on Shakespeare in the theatre, 1660-9; 5 SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT, from his adaptation of Measure for Measure with Much Ado, February 1662; 6 MARGARET CAVENDISH on Shakespeare's wit, 1662; 7 RICHARD FLECKNOE, from A Short Discourse of the English Stage, 1664

8 SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT, from his adaptation of Macbeth, November 16649 SIR WILLIAM D' A VENANT and JOHN DRYDEN, from their adaptation of The Tempest, November 1667; 10 JOHN DRYDEN, from An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, 1668; 11 JOHN DRYDEN?, prologue to Julius Caesar, 1672; 12 JOHN DRYDEN on the Jacobean dramatists, 1672; 13 THOMAS SHADWELL?, from the operatic version of The Tempest adaptation, April 1674; 14 JOHN DRYDEN, from All For Love, December 1677; 15 THOMAS RYMER, from The Tragedies of the Last Age, 1677; 16 JOHN DRYDEN, Heads of an Answer to Rymer, c. 1677

17 THOMAS SHADWELL, from his adaptation of Timon of Athens, January 167818 EDWARD RAVENSCROFT, from his adaptation of Titus Andronicus, Autumn 1678; 19 JOHN DRYDEN, from his adaptation of Troilus and Cressida, pre-April 1679; 20 THOMAS OTWAY, from his adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, September/October 1679; 21 NAHUM TATE, from his adaptation of Richard II, December 1680; 22 NAHUM TATE on Shakespeare's learning, 1680; 23 NAHUM TATE, from his adaptation of King Lear, March 1681; 24 NAHUM TATE, from his adaptation of Coriolanus, January 1682

25 THOMAS D'URFEY, from his adaptation of Cymbeline, Spring 168226 ROBERT GOULD, from The Play-House. A Satyr, 1685; 27 GERARD LANGBAINE, from An Account of the English Dramatick Poets, 1691; 28 ELKANAH SETTLE?, from the operatic adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, May 1692; A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

"Reprinted in 1995, 2000 by Routledge."--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-028880-4

1-04-029218-6

1-003-57217-0

1-134-78368-X

1-280-09427-3

0-203-19783-6

9780203197837

OCLC:

475884765