Othello: Language and Writing

ISBN-13: 9781408156599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 232 str.

Maguire Laurie

Opis

In this volume on Othello, Laurie Maguire examines the use and misuse of language, the play's textual and performance histories and how critics and directors have responded to the language of sexual jealousy.

Recenzje

Readers should write immediately to Bloomsbury for an examination copy of this book. Many will want to adopt it in their courses, and everybody, to judge from my experience, will derive great quantities of pleasure and profit from reading it. Edward Pechter, Concordia University, Canada The Shakespeare Newsletter

Spis treści

Preface Introduction 1. Language in Print 2. Language: Forms and Uses 3. Language Through Time 4. Writing and Language Skills Further Reading

O autorze

Laurie Maguire is Professor of English at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her research encompasses textual studies, editing, Elizabethan performance, classical influences on Renaissance writers, Elizabethan barbers and surgeons, contemporary performances of Shakespeare's plays, and feminist criticism.