Richard Dutton

Shakespeare, Court Dramatist

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Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare, Court Dramatist outlines the symbiotic relationship between Shakespeare and the court and shows how it affected his writing, forging plays like Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet into the versions we know best today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780198777748
• ISBN-10: 0198777744
• Artikelnr.: 44705382

Autorenporträt

Richard Dutton was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the University of Nottingham. He taught for many years at Lancaster University. Since 2003 he has been Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where he served as chair of the English department from 2009 to 2013. He has published numerous monographs, scholarly editions, and edited collections relating to the early modern period, mostly focusing on the censorship of the drama, the authors Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and theatre history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: Playing and the Court
Shakespeare, Patronage, and the Court
Shakespeare, Patronage and the Court
Line Lengths, Playing Times, and Ben Jonson
The Revision of Early Modern Play Texts
Part 2: Shakespeare's Multiple Texts
The Famous Victories of Shakespeare's Henry V
2 and 3 Henry VI -- A True Contention
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet and Succession
A Jacobean Merry Wives?
Single Sequence Additions
Jacobean Shakespeare
Conclusions
Bibliography