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Reading Shakespeare Alexander, Michael

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: United Kingdom Palgrave Macmillan 11/12/2012Description: 192 PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780230230132
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.33 MIC
Contents:
Shakespeare studies & criticism
Summary: <p>In a lively introduction to Shakespeare's life, career and the theater of his day, Michael Alexander returns to the basics of how to read Shakespeare's works as literary texts. Surveying the most popular and widely-studied plays and sonnets, he elaborates upon the historical, cultural and literary contexts that surrounded their creation.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An essential introductory text that provides students with a lively and enjoyable tour of Shakespeare's life, his writing career and the theatre of his time. Concise yet comprehensive, the guide examines the texts of twenty widely-studied plays, and the Sonnets, illuminating both their original contexts and their later reception. Lucidly written, with no jargon, this is an invaluable overview of Shakespeare's life and works for students who may be studying Shakespeare for the first time.

This is an ideal set text for modules on Shakespeare, Jacobean Drama or Renaissance/ Early Modern Literature which may be offered at all levels of an undergraduate Literature degree. In addition it is a helpful resource for students who may be studying Shakespeare's plays as part of a taught postgraduate degree in Literature.

Shakespeare studies & criticism

<p>In a lively introduction to Shakespeare's life, career and the theater of his day, Michael Alexander returns to the basics of how to read Shakespeare's works as literary texts. Surveying the most popular and widely-studied plays and sonnets, he elaborates upon the historical, cultural and literary contexts that surrounded their creation.

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Illustrations and Tables (p. ix)
  • Preface (p. x)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xiv)
  • 1 First Things (p. 1)
  • Career in brief (p. 5)
  • Authorship (p. 6)
  • Play and page (p. 9)
  • Printed books (p. 13)
  • Posthumous publication (p. 16)
  • 2 The Recorded Life (p. 19)
  • Stratford and family (p. 21)
  • Catholic England (p. 23)
  • Education (p. 24)
  • 3 Plays (p. 28)
  • 4 Shake-scene (p. 32)
  • What kind of scene? (p. 32)
  • Immediate predecessors (p. 36)
  • First plays (p. 38)
  • Language (p. 42)
  • Verse (p. 44)
  • 5 Dramatist (p. 49)
  • Love's Labour's Lost (p. 52)
  • Romeo and Juliet (p. 55)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (p. 57)
  • 6 Histories (p. 62)
  • Richard II (p. 64)
  • Henry IV (p. 66)
  • Henry V (p. 67)
  • Comprehensiveness (p. 69)
  • Versatility (p. 71)
  • 7 The Merchant of Venice and the Whirligig of Time (p. 73)
  • 8 To the Globe (p. 86)
  • Much Ado About Nothing (p. 86)
  • Julius Caesar (p. 87)
  • As You Like It (p. 89)
  • Twelfth Night (p. 92)
  • Shake-speares Sonnets (p. 94)
  • 9 Horatio's Question (p. 100)
  • 10 Taken to Extremes (p. 110)
  • Problem plays (p. 111)
  • Measure for Measure (p. 113)
  • 11 Tragedies (p. 120)
  • Othello (p. 123)
  • King Lear (p. 128)
  • Macbeth (p. 133)
  • Antony and Cleopatra (p. 137)
  • 12 Late Romances (p. 140)
  • The Winter's Tale (p. 143)
  • The Tempest (p. 148)
  • 13 Retrospect (p. 156)
  • Shakespeare's supposed point of view (p. 157)
  • 'Read him therefore' (p. 158)
  • Notes (p. 162)
  • Further Reading (p. 168)
  • Index (p. 171)

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