Since 1606, King Lear has shocked and delighted audiences and given rise to heated critical debate. This Routledge Literary Sourcebook offers a starting point for those wishing to study Shakespeare's intriguing play in depth. The first secton of the book, Contexts, provides background information, including a chronology of the playwright. It also examines the sources of King Lear, from Holinshed to Spenser. This is followed by a section on Interpretations, covering both critical readings and notable performances of the play. Grace Ioppolo ranges from early critical responses and performances...
Since 1606, King Lear has shocked and delighted audiences and given rise to heated critical debate. This Routledge Literary Sourcebook offers a starti...
Since 1606, King Lear has shocked and delighted audiences and given rise to heated critical debate. This Routledge Literary Sourcebook offers a starting point for those wishing to study Shakespeare's intriguing play in depth. The first secton of the book, Contexts, provides background information, including a chronology of the playwright. It also examines the sources of King Lear, from Holinshed to Spenser. This is followed by a section on Interpretations, covering both critical readings and notable performances of the play. Grace Ioppolo ranges from early critical responses and performances...
Since 1606, King Lear has shocked and delighted audiences and given rise to heated critical debate. This Routledge Literary Sourcebook offers a starti...
This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences. Grace Ioppolo argues that the path of the transmission of the text was not linear, from author to censor to playhouse to audience - as has been universally argued by scholars - but circular. Authors returned to their texts, or texts were returned to their authors, at any or all stages after...
This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, Joh...
The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: "What is it that we read Shakespeare?" The answer may seem self-evident: we read the words that Shakespeare wrote. But do we? In the case of all the major editions of Shakespeare available in the market, the fact of the matter is that many of the words that we read in an edition of, say, Hamlet, never appeared in the text as it was printed during or shortly after Shakespeare's own lifetime. They are the interpetations and interpolations of a series of editors who have been systematically changing Shakespeare's...
The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: "What is it that we read Shakespeare?" The answer may seem self-ev...