30 Great Myths About Shakespeare - Brossura

Maguire, Laurie, Ph.D.; Smith, Emma

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ISBN 10: 0470658517 ISBN 13: 9780470658512

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2012

Riassunto

Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . .

Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material—or its absence—can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell.

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Learned and enjoyable (that rarest of combinations), 30 Great Myths is a brilliant exploration of the truth behind popular assumptions about Shakespeare. Some of these myths turn out to be true, some false and some impossible to be decisive about. But these mini–essays are always at once fascinating, provoking and fun. Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame

This is a fresh, learned, thoughtful and generous–spirited review of the more–or–less received ideas we so often invoke when we talk about Shakespeare. Written with wit and verve by two outstanding experts in the field, it will entertain and inform experienced readers and playgoers  as well as those approaching the plays and poems for the first time. Russell Jackson, University of Birmingham

30 Great Myths About Shakespeare is superb.  Laurie Maguire and Emma Smith have written an incisive, witty, and open–minded book, one that uses popular myths as a point of entry into the profound and vexing questions raised by Shakespeare s art. Scholars, actors, and general readers will find themselves in their debt. James Shapiro, Columbia University

L'autore:

Laurie Maguire is Professor of English at the University of Oxford, tutorial fellow at Magdalen College, and the author or editor of seven books. She is a regular theater reviewer for theTLS and has lectured widely across the UK and the USA.

Emma Smith is tutorial fellow at Hertford College, Oxford. She is the author or editor of six books, a regular reviewer for theTLS, and has lectured widely across the UK and the USA.

The authors have previously collaborated together on articles on Middleton and Shakespeare and on graduate courses at the University of Oxford.

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• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0470658517
• ISBN 13: 9780470658512
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 216