A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1991
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-35503-3 (ISBN)

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A study of four of Shakespeare's major tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth - this Preface at these plays in a variety of contexts, both in isolation and in relation to each other. Michael Mangan also explores the cultural, ideological, social and political contexts in which they were written.

Michael Mangan

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction

Part One: Shakespeare's England
1. Religious and philosophical developments.
2. Government and authority.
3. Elizabethan and Jacobean society
4. `Words, words, words': Shakespeare's English.
5. Plays into print.

Part Two: Shakespeare and the theatre of his time
6. Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy.
7. Shakespeare's theatre
8. Plays and audiences

Part Three: Critical Analysis
9. Hamlet.
10. Othello.
11. King Lear.
12. Macbeth. Postscript: What lies beyond tragedy?

Part Four: Reference Section
Short biographies
Further reading
Appendix: The theatres of Shakespeare's London
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.9.1991
Reihe/Serie	Preface Books
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	361 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-582-35503-6 / 0582355036
ISBN-13	978-0-582-35503-3 / 9780582355033
Zustand	Neuware