Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts (Arden Shakespeare Library) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408158787 ISBN 13: 9781408158784

Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare, 2012

Synopsis

This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern authors. The book is an intervention into current critical methodology as well as an invaluable tool for all students of the literature of the period, exemplifying the possibilities of close reading in the hands of a range of gifted practitioners. Chapters cover a range of key texts from Shakespeare and other major writers of the period such as Milton, Donne, Jonson and Sidney.

This is a unique collection as no other book offers such a rich variety of self-contained, short-form close readings. As such it can be used in the undergraduate classroom as well as by scholars and post-graduates and will also appeal to literary readers with an enthusiasm for Shakespeare. Contributors include leading Shakespeareans Stanley Wells, Stanley Fish, Coppelia Kahn and Lukas Erne.

About this title

About the Author

Russ McDonald is Professor of English Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London

Nicholas D Nace is Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Binghamton

Travis D Williams is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Rhode Island

Edition details

• Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408158787
• ISBN 13: 9781408158784
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 414
• Editor: Williams Travis D, Nace Nicholas D, McDonald Russ