Smith Shakespeare's Comedies

A Guide to Criticism
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77691-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Guides to Criticism

This Guide introduces students to critical writing onShakespeare's comedies over the last four centuries.
* * Guides students through four centuries of critical writing onShakespeare's history plays.
* Covers both significant early views and recent criticalinterventions.
* Substantial editorial material links the articles and placesthem in context.
* Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students toinvestigate further.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Emma

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1 The Development of Criticism of Shakespeare's Comedies.
2 Genre.
Marriage as Comic Closure.
False Immortality in Measure for Measure.
3 Language.
Here Follows Prose.
Transfer of Title in Love's Labour's Lost.
4 Gender and Sexuality.
Helena's Bed-trick.
The Homoerotics of Shakespearian.
Comedy.
5 History and Politics.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?.
Bottom's Up.
6 Performance.
Kate: Interpreting the Silence.
As You Like It.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Emma Smith is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in English at Oxford University. Her publications include Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie (ed. 1998) and Shakespeare in Production: Henry V (2000).