King Richard II - Brossura

Shakespeare, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521297656 ISBN 13: 9780521297653

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Riassunto

The times have forced changes in the way we look at Richard II more than any other of Shakespeare's plays. What to his contemporaries was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the time, how to cope with an unjust ruler, has in the last century or so been translated into the poetic fall of a tragic hero. The introduction to this new edition of the play provides a full context for both the Shakespearean and the modern views of King Richard's fall. It relates the play's construction, imagery and staging to contemporary concerns and describes the changing views about Richard's deposition by means of a stage history. The accompanying illustrations suggest Elizabethan ideas of kingship and the staging of the play. The commentary is more detailed than for any previous edition of the play, and assimilates the most recent scholarship. The appendixes discuss the basis for Shakespeare's selection of material for his sources in this most carefully researched and composed of his history plays.

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Contenuti

List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; Notes on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendixes; Reading list.

Product Description

Book by Shakespeare William

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0521297656
• ISBN 13: 9780521297653
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Redattore: Gurr Andrew
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile