Myriad-Minded Shakespeare: Essays on the Tragedies, the Problem Plays and Shakespeare the Man

ISBN-13: 9780333720646 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 253 str.

E. A. J. Honigmann

Opis

Myriad-minded Shakespeare introduces readers to the great variety of approaches to Shakespeare. The political and sexist implications of the plays, their sources, staging issues, textual disputes and the dramatist's character and biography are all analysed here, bringing out the interconnectedness of critical questions. Ernst Honigmann plunges straight into his subjects and shows that it is rarely safe to seek solutions that are narrowly exclusive. For the second edition a new preface places the essays in the context of recent critical debate and a new chapter on Shakespeare's will provides a fascinating insight into Shakespeare's independent spirit.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Notes on Texts and References - Bibliographical Note - Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction: Myriad-minded Shakespeare and the Modern Reader - In Search of William Shakespeare: the Public and the Private Man - Politics, Rhetoric and Will-power in Julius Caesar - The Politics in Hamlet and 'the World of the Play' - Trends in the Discussion of Shakespeare's Characters: Othello - The Uniqueness of King Lear : Genre and Production Problems - Past, Present and Future in Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare Suppressed: the Unfortunate History of Troilus and Cressida - All's Well That Ends Well : a 'Feminist' Play? - Shakespeare's Mingled Yarn and Measure for Measure - On not trusting Shakespeare's Stage-directions - Shakespeare at Work: Preparing, Writing, Rewriting - Shakespeare on His Deathbed: the Last Will and Testament - Notes - Index

O autorze

ERNST HONIGMANN