Troilus and Cressida: Third Series - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1903436699 ISBN 13: 9781903436691

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Arden, 1998

Riassunto

This volume offers the most comprehensive and critically up-to-date edition of Troilus and Cressida available today. Bevington’s learned and engaging introduction discusses the ambivalent status and genre of the play, variously presented in its early printing as a comedy, a history and a tragedy. He examines and assimilates the wide variety of critical responses the play has elicited, and argues its importance in today’s culture as an experimental and open-ended work. He also, however, suggests that this experimentalism may have contributed to its lack of immediate stage success, and goes on to place the work in its late Elizabethan context of political instability and theatrical rivalry. A thorough performance history focuses chiefly on recent productions. The complex text situation is re-examined and the differing textual readings carefully explicated. 'Bevington's edition is so clearly the best now available that it will no doubt quickly become standard practice for all study of this remarkable play to begin with this remarkable edition.' Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare Survey

Su questo libro

L'autore:

David Bevington is Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He has edited the Complete Works of Shakespeare in a single volume for HarperCollins (now Longman) and in individual paperbacks for the Bantam Shakespeare, as well as King Henry IV Part 1 (Oxford University Press) and Antony and Cleopatra (New Cambridge Shakespeare). He is the editor ofMedieval Drama. His many other publications include From 'Mankind' to Marlowe,Tudor Drama and Politics, and Action is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture.

Product Description:

Book by William Shakespeare

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Arden
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1903436699
• ISBN 13: 9781903436691
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 496
• Redattore: Bevington David