Kate Aughterson

Shakespeare: The Late Plays

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What makes Shakespeare's late plays so special? Through detailed analyses of key passages, Kate Aughterson shows how these plays portray a world of political intrigue, familial chaos and crisis, which teeters continually into tragedy: a world we can recognise today.

Part I of this engaging study:
- provides stimulating close readings of extracts from The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline and Pericles
- examines major topics such as openings, endings, familial roles, stage properties, spectacle and song
- offers suggestions for further work and summarizes the methods of analysis.

Part II supplies essential background material, including:
- detailed accounts of Shakespeare's literary and historical contexts
- samples from important critical works and performances.

With a helpful Further Reading section, this illuminating volume is ideal for anyone who wishes to appreciate and explore Shakespeare's late plays for themselves.

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Produktdetails

• Analysing Texts
• Verlag: Macmillan Education UK / Red Globe Press / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-36863-7
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 16mm x 140mm x 216mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9780230368637
• Artikelnr.: 39181926

Autorenporträt

Kate Aughterson is Principal Lecturer and Academic Programme Leader for English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. She is the author of Webster: The Tragedies and Aphra Behn: The Comedies, both also in the Analysing Texts series.

Inhaltsangabe

General Editor's Preface.- A Note on Editions.- Introduction: Ways of Reading.- PART I: ANALYSING SHAKESPEARE'S LATE PLAYS 1. Openings.- 2. Turning Points: Tragedy and Comedy.- 3. Endings.- 4. Fathers, Sons and Husbands.- 5. Mothers, Daughters and Wives.- 6. Masters, Servants and Slaves: Society and Politics.- 7. Stage Properties.- 8. Spectacle and Theatricality.- 9. Music and Song.- General Conclusions to Part I.- PART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS Shakespeare's Literary Career.- Jacobean Contexts.- Sample Critical Views and Performances.- Further Reading.- Index.