R. A. Foakes

Shakespeare and Violence

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the nature of violence in Shakespeare's plays and its connection to our own time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780521527439
• ISBN-10: 0521527430
• Artikelnr.: 21173677

Autorenporträt

R. A. Foakes is Professor Emeritus at the Department of English, UCLA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
1. Introduction: 'Exterminate all the brutes'
2. Shakespeare's culture of violence
3. Shakespeare and the display of violence
4. Plays and movies: Richard III and Romeo and Juliet
5. Shakespeare on war: King John to Henry V
6. Violence, Renaissance tragedy, and Hamlet
7. The central tragedies and violence
8. Roman violence and power games
9. Violence and the late plays
10. Afterword
Index.