How to Study a Shakespeare Play

ISBN-13: 9780333641262 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 264 str.

J Peck

Opis

This book - for a decade the most highly regarded general introduction to Shakespeare - offers students a clear and practical method of approaching a Shakespeare play. This major new edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include five new chapters that illustrate the nature and impact of the new approaches to Shakespeare that have swept through literary studies in recent years: structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction, feminism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism.

Spis treści

General Editors' Preface.- Preface.- PART 1 How to Approach a Shakespeare Play.- Studying a History.- Play Studying a Tragedy.- Studying a Comedy.- Discussing an Extract from a Shakespeare Play.- Writing an Essay.- PART 2 New Approaches to Shakespeare.- Structuralism, Poststructuralism and Deconstruction.- Feminist Criticism.- New Historicism and Cultural Materialism.- Conclusion.- Further Reading.- A List of Shakespeare's Plays.

O autorze

Author John Peck: John Peck is now retired and was formerly Reader in Victorian Literature at Cardiff University, UK. With Martin Coyle he edits the Key Concepts series for Palgrave Macmillan. Author Martin Coyle: Martin Coyle is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. With John Peck he edits the Key Concepts series for Palgrave Macmillan.