Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story - Rilegato

Wells, Stanley

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ISBN 10: 0375424946 ISBN 13: 9780375424946

Casa editrice: Pantheon, 2007

Riassunto

A critical study of the world of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater and of Shakepeare's integral role within the theater of the period looks at the great actors with whom Shakespeare worked, their interpretations of his plays, and the lives and the works of other writers of his day, including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, and others. 17,500 first printing.

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Praise from Great Britain:

“Fascinating... An enthralling work of popular scholarship.”
–Robert McCrum, The Observer

“Ingenious... [Shakespeare’s London] was a time and a place teeming with excitement, anecdote and incident, and Wells, in this richly enjoyable work, brings it to life with a novelist’s sense of the telling detail.”
–Dominic Dromgoole, The Sunday Times

“Comprehensive and colorful... This is illuminating, well-planned and suggestive work, not only for those readers who have little acquaintance with the subject, but also for those already familiar with it. One of the greatest gifts of this book... is to re-astonish readers with the simple fact of the newness of all this.”
–Min Wild, The Independent on Sunday

“A valuable contribution to popular Shakespeare scholarship... A feat of synthesis... Each page is dense with well-chosen information and sensible, sensitive interpretation.”
–Peter Wentworth, The Literary Times Supplement

“This collaborative Shakespeare makes a refreshing change from the autistic monarch of the stage... Wit its lightly worn learning and its refreshing argument, this is a rewarding and readable book. Anyone who wants to understand Shakespeare will learn from it.”
–Colin Burrow, Evening Standard

L'autore:

Stanley Wells is the author of Shakespeare: For All Time, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham, general editor of the Penguin and Oxford editions of Shakespeare’s works and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. He lives in England.

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• Editore: Pantheon
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0375424946
• ISBN 13: 9780375424946
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304