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Beschreibung
Matthew Woodcock provides a survey of the critical responses to this popular play, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide summarises and assesses key interpretations, setting them in their intellectual and historical context.
Matthew Woodcock provides a survey of the critical responses to this popular play, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide summarises and assesses key interpretations, setting them in their intellectual and historical context.
Über den Autor
MATTHEW WOODCOCK is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Zusammenfassung
A survey of the key critical responses to one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Texts
Introduction
Making the Text: Date, Sources, Textual History
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century: Neoclassicism and Early Editions
The Nineteenth-Century: Romantic and Victorian Interpretations
The Early Twentieth-Century: What Makes a Good King?
The Mid-Twentieth-Century: History, War and Epic
The Mid to Late Twentieth Century: Ambivalence and Play
The Later Twentieth Century and Beyond: Power, Subversion and Masculinity
A Play for the New Millennium: Nationhood, Memory and Just War
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780230500808
ISBN-10: 0230500803
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Woodcock, Matthew
Redaktion: Tredell, Nicolas
Hersteller: Bloomsbury 3PL
Macmillan Education
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Matthew Woodcock
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.07.2008
Gewicht: 0,247 kg
Artikel-ID: 133625585

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