ShakespeareEdinburgh University Press, 2007 - 282 pages Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Halliwell and Andy Mousley This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the reader's understanding of key literary movements, periods and genres, and consider debates that inform the past, present and future of literary study. Resources such as glossaries of key terms and details of archives and internet sites are also provided, making each volume a comprehensive critical guide. Shakespeare (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series) Gabriel Egan This book helps the reader make sense of the most commonly studied writer in the world. It starts with a brief explanation of how Shakespeare's writings have come down to us as a series of scripts for actors in the early modern theatre industry of London. The main chapters of the book approach the texts through a series of questions: 'what's changed since Shakespeare's time?', 'to what uses has Shakespeare been put?', and 'what value is there in Shakespeare?' These questions go to the heart of why we study Shakespeare at all, which question the book encourages the readers to answer for themselves in relation to their own critical writing. Key Features * A chronology of Shakespeare's career as an actor/dramatist that locates him within the theatre industry of his time * New readings of twelve plays that form a core of the Shakespeare canon: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard 2, Henry 5, Hamlet, Othello, All's Well that Ends Well, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, and Timon of Athens * Critical analyses organized by genre (comedies, histories, tragedies, and romance) and by four key critical approaches: authorship, performance, identities, and materialism * An extensive resources section, including a glossary of the i |
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... material behavior ' , are the ' sublimates of their material life - process ' , so that ' Life is not determined by consciousness , but consciousness by life'.4 Marx dis- tanced himself from the Empiricists such as John Locke who make a ...
... material behavior ' , are the ' sublimates of their material life - process ' , so that ' Life is not determined by consciousness , but consciousness by life'.4 Marx dis- tanced himself from the Empiricists such as John Locke who make a ...
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... material reality over ideas . Recently , however , there has developed in Shakespeare studies a kind of materialism that implicitly denies the philosophical and political tradition that its name invokes , and insists instead that any ...
... material reality over ideas . Recently , however , there has developed in Shakespeare studies a kind of materialism that implicitly denies the philosophical and political tradition that its name invokes , and insists instead that any ...
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... material reality has always been , from the Marxist view , to go beyond mere matter to show how ideas arise from matter . According to Grady , however , the latest kind of materialism pays no attention to ideas and so could , para ...
... material reality has always been , from the Marxist view , to go beyond mere matter to show how ideas arise from matter . According to Grady , however , the latest kind of materialism pays no attention to ideas and so could , para ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 19 |
Richard 2 and Henry 5 | 46 |
Copyright | |
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