Stanley Wells: Shakespeare on Page and Stage

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Cover: 9780198884569 | Shakespeare on Page and Stage | Selected Essays | Stanley Wells | Buch

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This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Its chapters are divided into themed sections, on Shakespearian influences, particular works, theatre, and text.

Über den Autor

Sir Stanley Wells, CBE, FRSL, described by Roy Hattersley as 'Our greatest authority on Shakespeare's life and work', is Honorary President, Life Trustee, and former Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He was Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, from 1988-1997, and is now Emeritus Professor. He is an Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has been General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare since 1978 and is General Editor of the Penguin Shakespeare. One of the most distinguished Shakespearian scholars currently working, his publications include Shakespeare For All Time (2002), Shakespeare & Co (2006), Shakespeare, Sex, and Love (2010), Great Shakespeare Actors (2015), William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction (2015), and Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction (2017).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I. Shakespearian Influences

1: Shakespeare: Man of the European Renaissance

2: Tales from Shakespeare

II. Essays on Particular Works

3: The Failure of The Two Gentlemen of Verona

4: The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear: A Structural Comparison

5: The Integration of Violent Action in Titus Andronicus

6: The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet

7: Juliet's Nurse: The Uses of Inconsequentiality

8: The Lamentable Tale of Richard II

9: A Midsummer Night's Dream Revisited

10: Translations in A Midsummer Night's Dream

11: The Once and Future King Lear

12: Points of Stagecraft in The Tempest

13: 'My Name is Will': Shakespeare's Sonnets and Autobiography

14: Shakespeare Without Sources

15: Shakespeare and Romance

III. Shakespeare in the Theatre

16: Boys Should be Girls: Shakespeare s Female Roles and the Boy Players

17: Staging Shakespeare's Ghosts

18: Staging Shakespeare's Apparitions and Dream Visions

19: Shakespeare in Planché's Extravaganzas

20: Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm's Theatre Criticism

21: Shakespeare in Leigh Hunt's Theatre Criticism

22: Shakespeare in Hazlitt's Theatre Criticism

23: Peter Hall's Coriolanus, 1959

IV. Shakespeare's Text

24: On Being a General Editor

25: Editorial Treatment of Foul-Paper Texts: Much Ado About Nothing as Test Case

26: Money in Shakespeare's Comedies

27: To Read a Play: The Problem of Editorial Intervention

28: The First Folio: Where Should We be Without it?

29: The Limitations of the First Folio

Afterword

Notes

Select List of Publications

Acknowledgements

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Theater & Film
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	496
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198884569
ISBN-10:	0198884567
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wells, Stanley
Redaktion:	Edmondson, Paul
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Maße:	233 x 157 x 42 mm
Von/Mit:	Stanley Wells
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.05.2023
Gewicht:	0,591 kg

preigu-id: 126503812

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I. Shakespearian Influences

1: Shakespeare: Man of the European Renaissance

2: Tales from Shakespeare

II. Essays on Particular Works

3: The Failure of The Two Gentlemen of Verona

4: The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear: A Structural Comparison

5: The Integration of Violent Action in Titus Andronicus

6: The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet

7: Juliet's Nurse: The Uses of Inconsequentiality

8: The Lamentable Tale of Richard II

9: A Midsummer Night's Dream Revisited

10: Translations in A Midsummer Night's Dream

11: The Once and Future King Lear

12: Points of Stagecraft in The Tempest

13: 'My Name is Will': Shakespeare's Sonnets and Autobiography

14: Shakespeare Without Sources

15: Shakespeare and Romance

III. Shakespeare in the Theatre

16: Boys Should be Girls: Shakespeare s Female Roles and the Boy Players

17: Staging Shakespeare's Ghosts

18: Staging Shakespeare's Apparitions and Dream Visions

19: Shakespeare in Planché's Extravaganzas

20: Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm's Theatre Criticism

21: Shakespeare in Leigh Hunt's Theatre Criticism

22: Shakespeare in Hazlitt's Theatre Criticism

23: Peter Hall's Coriolanus, 1959

IV. Shakespeare's Text

24: On Being a General Editor

25: Editorial Treatment of Foul-Paper Texts: Much Ado About Nothing as Test Case

26: Money in Shakespeare's Comedies

27: To Read a Play: The Problem of Editorial Intervention

28: The First Folio: Where Should We be Without it?

29: The Limitations of the First Folio

Afterword

Notes

Select List of Publications

Acknowledgements

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Theater & Film
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	496
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198884569
ISBN-10:	0198884567
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wells, Stanley
Redaktion:	Edmondson, Paul
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Maße:	233 x 157 x 42 mm
Von/Mit:	Stanley Wells
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.05.2023
Gewicht:	0,591 kg