The Arden Introduction to Reading Shakespeare

Close Reading and Analysis

Jeremy Lopez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2018
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-4725-8104-4 (ISBN)

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Shakespeare’s plays are works of art made out of words. To read the plays closely, that is, to pay careful attention to the multiple, shifting meanings of and relationships between their words, is to gain a deep and lasting appreciation for the complex artistry of their construction and of their effects. In fourteen chapters, the book takes readers on a guided tour through some of the most productive sites in Shakespeare’s plays for analysis, providing an introduction to the practice of reading Shakespeare’s plays closely, and some examples of the interpretive work that such close reading can enable. Topics of analysis include verbal patterning, dramatic structure, staging and stage directions, soliloquies and character-construction and poetic meter.

This is an ideal teaching text for introductory courses on Shakespeare. Offering a wide range of examples from nearly all of Shakespeare’s plays, it will give students the analytical tools they need to develop sustained close readings of their own.

Jeremy Lopez is Professor of English at Montclair State University, USA, and the Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly.

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part 1

1 The Title

2 Stage Directions

3 Scenes

4 The Whole Play

Part 2

5 First Words

6 The First Act

7 Act Three

8 Acts Two and Four

9 The Last Act

10 Last Words

Part 3

11 Patterned Language

12 Characters

Part 4

13 Meter

14 Textual Variation

Epilogue

Suggested further reading

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4725-8104-0 / 1472581040
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-8104-4 / 9781472581044
Zustand	Neuware