Measure for Measure
Seiten
2006
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2nd Revised edition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-85448-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-85448-1 (ISBN)
This second edition of Measure for Measure features a new section by Angela Stock, which focuses on recent scholarly criticism and important contemporary productions on stage and film. An updated reading list completes the edition.
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of Measure for Measure Angela Stock has written a new introductory section that takes account of recent scholarly criticism and important contemporary productions on stage and film. The edition retains the text prepared by Brian Gibbons together with his comprehensive introduction, in which he shows how the play's critical reception and stage history varies from one period to the next according to the prevailing social, moral and religious issues of the day. Gibbons explores the thrilling experience of watching the play in performance, with its shocking reversals and surprises, great tragic poetry and exuberant comic prose. An updated reading list completes the edition.
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of Measure for Measure Angela Stock has written a new introductory section that takes account of recent scholarly criticism and important contemporary productions on stage and film. The edition retains the text prepared by Brian Gibbons together with his comprehensive introduction, in which he shows how the play's critical reception and stage history varies from one period to the next according to the prevailing social, moral and religious issues of the day. Gibbons explores the thrilling experience of watching the play in performance, with its shocking reversals and surprises, great tragic poetry and exuberant comic prose. An updated reading list completes the edition.
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of abbreviations and conventions; Introduction: Date; Puritanism, political allusion and censorship; The sources and their shaping; The play; The play on the stage; Note of the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Reading list.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.7.2006 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The New Cambridge Shakespeare |
| Co-Autor | Angela Stock |
| Zusatzinfo | 15 Halftones, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 490 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-85448-2 / 0521854482 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-85448-1 / 9780521854481 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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