William Mckenzie

Student's Guide to Shakespeare (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An introductory guide to studying ShakespeareThis book is a 'one-stop-shop' for the busy undergraduate studying Shakespeare. Offering detailed guidance to the plays most often taught on undergraduate courses, the volume targets the topics tutors choose for essay questions and is organised to help students find the information they need quickly. Each text discussion contains sections on sources, characters, performance, themes, language, and critical history, helping students identify the different ways of approaching a text. The book's unique play-based structure and character-centre approach allows students to easily navigate the material. The flexibility of the design allows students to either read cover-to-cover, target a specific play, or explore elements of a narrative unit such as imagery or characterisation. The reader will gain quickly a full grasp of the kind of dramatist William Shakespeare was - and is.Key FeaturesAn introduction which gives an up-to-date 'state-of-play' of the academic, theatrical and cultural efforts inspired by Shakespeare's textsA discussion of critical approaches to the playwright's textsSuccinct guides to Shakespeare's most-studied playsDiscussion questions

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474413527
• Artikelnr.: 50402552

Autorenporträt

William McKenzie is Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University. He is the co-editor of Shakespeare and I (Bloomsbury,2012) and has published on early modern melancholy, Shakespearean confession, humanist pedagogy, and Renaissance obscenity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Tragedies
1. Romeo and Juliet
2. Hamlet
3. Othello
4. Macbeth
5. King Lear
6. Anthony and Cleopatra
Part II: Comedies
7. A Midsummer Night's Dream
8. The Merchant of Venice
9. Twelfth Night, or What you will
10. Measure for Measure
Part III: Histories
11. The 'Henriad'
12. The Henry VI trilogy and Richard III
Part IV: Late plays
13. The Winter's Tale
14. The Tempest
Historical Chronology
Glossary.