Author: David Bevington
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: literature, study, play, shakespeare, read
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2006-06-23
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1405113960
ISBN-13: 9781405113960

This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare’s works for pleasure.Encourages readers to approach Shakespeare’s works aggressively, interactively, and questioninglyFocuses on six popular Shakespeare plays - A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Part I, Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest Recommends the best editions, recordings and DVDs / videos of these plays Discusses the production of the plays on stage and screen Introduces readers to different genres in Shakespeare – romantic comedy, English hist

Author: Sidney Homan
Publisher: Bucknell Univ Pr
Keywords: stage, classroom, study, play, triple, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 1988-06
List price: $36.50
ISBN-10: 0838751229
ISBN-13: 9780838751220

Author: Ernest Schanzer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: shakespeare, measure, cleopatra, routledge, library, editions, antony, caesar, plays, study, julius, problem
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-07-12
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 041535305X
ISBN-13: 9780415353052

The opening chapter traces the history of the term ’problem plays’ as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play’s relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon.

Author: Saddleback Educational Publishing
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing
Keywords: shakespeare, easy, made, guides, study, romeo, juliet
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1599051370
ISBN-13: 9781599051376

#

Author: Saddleback Educational Publishing
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing
Keywords: shakespeare, easy, made, guides, study, king, lear
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1599051338
ISBN-13: 9781599051338

#

Author: Catherine Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: shakespeare, stages, criticism, performance, texts, hardback, library, volume, cambridge, times
Number of Pages: 1416
Published: 2003-07-14
List price: $555.00
ISBN-10: 0521824338
ISBN-13: 9780521824330

These three volumes represent the best Shakespeare criticism of the last fifty years. 140 articles have been included, with introductions by Stanley Wells, Terence Hawkes and Peter Holland under three main headings. The first volume covers Shakespeare’s life and times, the texts of his plays and their staging in the period; the second consists of literary criticism applied to Shakespeare since World War II and the third includes performance-centered articles on staging and acting. The essays are reprinted from the Shakespeare Survey yearbook, selected and ordered by Catherine Alexander.

Author: S. Viswanathan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: tradition, perspective, critical, poem, play, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2010-02-04
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521129184
ISBN-13: 9780521129183

The dominant trend in the criticism of Shakespeare since the late 1920s has been the interpretation of the plays as dramatic poems. Dr Viswanathan provides a balanced critique as well as a comprehensive history of this movement. The book concludes by discussing the relationship between criticism and historical scholarship, and the conflict between ’literalists’ and ’allegorists’ in modern literary criticism, and advocates an eclectic approach. The book indicates the importance of Shakespearian criticism as part of the cultural and literary history of the age, showing th