Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts (Shakespeare: Text and Performance) - Softcover

Kiernan Ryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333913175 ISBN 13: 9780333913178

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2000

Synopsis

Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts focuses on both the texts of Shakespeare's plays, and the many contexts in which they have been produced, from their first performances to contemporary reproductions. This book introduces nine of Shakespeare's major plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, King Lear and The Tempest. In addition, there are two shorter intervals, one describing the original theatrical contexts for the plays, and the other discussing the different textual versions of the plays available to us. The chapters focus on the critical practices of close reading, historical contextualisation and a lively question-and-answer teaching style. There is also detailed attention to Shakespeare on stage, on film and in the new communications technologies and new theoretical approaches to Shakespeare's plays.

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About the Author

Kiernan Ryan is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, an Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.; Kiernan Ryan is Professor of English Language and Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333913175
• ISBN 13: 9780333913178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344