Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist - Softcover

Erne, Lukas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107685060 ISBN 13: 9781107685062

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Rare Book

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Review:

Review of the first edition: 'The year's best book on Shakespeare.' Jonathan Bate, The Times Literary Supplement

Review of the first edition: 'An exceedingly learned book ... I must say I found this mustered evidence and these arguments completely gripping.' James Fenton, The New York Review of Books

Review of the first edition: 'Among the most significant works of Shakespearean scholarship in recent years.' MacDonald Jackson, University of Auckland

Review of the first edition: 'Lukas Erne's new book is certainly one of the most fascinating, thought-provoking, and lucid studies of Shakespeare I can remember reading.' Robert C. Evans, Ben Jonson Journal

Review of the first edition: 'Lukas Erne's brilliant new book ... sets out probably the most exhilarating change in our image of Shakespeare as a writer for decades ... Erne is brilliant at reconsidering evidence, taking a quizzical view of comments and facts that we had understood in one way for so long that we had forgotten to keep asking whether they could be read in other and better ways. It is the work of a scholar who here and in the years to come has a vast amount to teach us about Shakespeare, making him new, just as every performance makes the particular play new ...' Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame

Review of the first edition: 'The notion is familiar. Shakespeare - actor, playwright, man of the theatre - was a producer of scripts, devoted to their production in the playhouse, but indifferent to their appearance in print. Lukas Erne challenges this notion, with a persuasive picture of a Shakespeare conscious of having been read and reread, excerpted and anthologized; a writer writing with a readership in mind. Erne's book, which draws together the recent isolated conclusions of a number of scholars, builds on their foundations a more radical thesis, and makes it difficult to see how so many of us could have been taken in for so long by the unlikely image of a jobbing playwright.' Nicholas Robins, The Times Literary Supplement

Review of the first edition: '[Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist] will certainly change our future discourse about dramatic texts and about Shakespeare.' Richard Knowles, Modern Philology

Review of the first edition: '[Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist] will serve to set new directions for Renaissance scholarship.' Andrew Murphy, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Review of the first edition: 'An excellent and scrupulously researched book ... this may well, then, be one of those rare books that changes how Shakespeare is perceived and edited.' Colin Burrow, Shakespeare Quarterly

Review of the first edition: 'Erne achieves nothing less than the complete undoing of our understanding of Shakespeare as author.' Dympna Callaghan, Studies in English Literature

Book Description:

Erne's groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare wrote his plays not only with audiences but also with readers in mind. This second edition includes a substantial, 10,000-word preface that reviews and intervenes in the controversy that the book has triggered.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107685060
• ISBN 13: 9781107685062
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 326