King Richard II (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) - Hardcover

Shakespeare, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521825415 ISBN 13: 9780521825412

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of King Richard II Andrew Gurr has added a new section to the introduction, in which he discusses a number of important theatrical productions as well as the scholarly criticism of recent years. Gurr foregrounds the growing interest in re-historicising and re-politicising the play, emphasising that, to Shakespeare's contemporaries, King Richard II was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the day: how to reign-in an unjust ruler. The Introduction provides a full context for both contemporaneous and modern views of King Richard's fall. An updated reading list completes the edition.

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Review:

'Gurr's account is hard-headed and scholarly, very deftly interweaving comment on the play's action with discussion of contemporary political events ... thorough, scholarly and continuously helpful.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

'... sensible and balanced judgements add to an already perceptive introductory essay.' The Journal of the English Association

Book Description:

For this second edition of King Richard II Andrew Gurr has added a new section to the Introduction, in which he discusses a number of important theatrical productions as well as the scholarly criticism of recent years. The introduction addresses both contemporaneous and modern views of King Richard's fall.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521825415
• ISBN 13: 9780521825412
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Gurr Andrew