Shakespeare and the Problem Play: Complex Forms, Crossed Genres and Moral Quandaries

ISBN-13: 9780786472437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 232 str.

E. L. Risden

Opis

Shakespeare's plays are a rich source of genre as well as moral or ethical issues that invite deep study. How we consider the plays determine the choices actors and directors make in presenting plays on stage or film, the ways teachers address them in the classroom, and even the ways students and audiences understand and enjoy them. The genre issue often proves the very moral crux where Shakespeare raises the most complex questions. He aimed to build good plays, not simple fulfillments of genre demands. To him "good plays" meant leaving his audience with problems to consider.