A Shakespeare Reader

ISBN-13: 9780333913147 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 330 str.

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A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism provides a rich collection of critical and secondary material selected to assist in the study of Shakespeare's plays. It includes a selection of sources and analogues Shakespeare drew upon in writing nine of his major works, a variety of widely divergent critical interpretations of the plays over the last sixty years - from the practical criticism of the 1930s to the theoretical approaches of the 1990s - and informative essays on Shakespeare's theatre and on the challenges of editing the Shakespeare text. This book represents an invaluable resource for students and teachers of Shakespeare, as well as for theatre practitioners.

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Preface.- Acknowledgements.- PART ONE: SOURCES AND ANALOGUES.- A Midsummer Night's Dream: from The Discoverie of Witchcraft; R. Scott.- From Metamorphoses Book IV; Ovid.- Richard II: from A Myrroure for Magistrates.- Macbeth: from Chronicles; R. Holinshed.- Antony and Cleopatra: from Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.- Hamlet: from The Spanish Tragedy; T. Kyd.- Of Revenge; F. Bacon.- Twelfth Night: from Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession; B. Riche.- Measure for Measure: from Hecatommithi; G.B. Giraldi Cinthio.- King Lear: from The Faerie Queene; E. Spenser.- From Arcadia; P. Sidney.- The Tempest: from 'The Strachey Letter'.- From Metamorphoses; Ovid.- PART TWO: CRITICAL READINGS.- The Imperial Votaress; L. Montrose.- The Staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream; J. L. Halio.- The Elizabethan Drama; R. Weimann.- The Political Background of Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV; J. D. Wilson.- Richard II; J. E. Howard and P. Rackin.- How Many Children had Lady Macbeth?; L. C. Knights.- Macbeth: History, Ideology and Intellectuals; A. Sinfield.- Macbeth on Film: Politics; E. Pearlman.- Jacobean Antony and Cleopatra; H. Neville Davies.- Squeaking Cleopatras: Gender and Performance in Antony and Cleopatra; J. Dusinberre.- Spatial Politics; A. Loomba.- What is an Editor?; S. Orgel.- Hamlet the Mona Lisa of Literature; J. Rose.- Telmah; T. Hawkes.- Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night; C. L. Barber.- The Two Antonios and Same-Sex Love in Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice; J. Pequigney.-Measure for Measure; F. R. Leavis.- London; L. Marcus.- From Hamlet to Lear; A. Kettle.- The Absent Mother in King Lear; C. Kahn.- Grigori Kozintsev's King Lear; A. Leggatt.- 'What Cares These Roarers for the Name of King?': Language and Utopia in The Tempest; D. Norbrook.- African and Caribbean Appropriations of The Tempest; R. Nixon.- PART THREE: CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS.- The Present Tense; G. Taylor.- The National Poet; J. Bate.- New Ways to Play Old Texts: Discourses of the Past; S. Bennett.- Index.

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RICHARD DANSON BROWN and DAVID JOHNSON are both Lecturers in Literature at the Open University. Richard Brown is the author of The New Poet: Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints and David Johnson is the author of Shakespeare and South Africa.