Michael Mangan

A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a study of four of Shakespeare's major tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. It looks at these plays in a variety of contexts - both in isolation and in relation to each other and to the cultural, ideological, social and political contexts which produced them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780582355033
• ISBN-10: 0582355036
• Artikelnr.: 39292911

Autorenporträt

Michael Mangan

Inhaltsangabe

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