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Emma Smith
ISBN: 9780521671880
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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This introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character, Performance, Texts, Language, Structure, Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with resources for independent research through the 'Where next…
This lively and innovative 2007 introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with resources for independent research through the 'Where next?' sections at the end of each chapter. The book draws on up-to-date scholarship without being overwhelmed by it, and unlike other introductory guides to Shakespeare it emphasizes that there is space for new and fresh thinking by students and readers, even on the most-studied and familiar plays.
| ISBN | 0521671884 | | Pages | 178 | | ISBN13 | 9780521671880
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Cambridge University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 250 | | Imprint | Cambridge University Press | | Published in | Cambridge | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Cambridge Introductions to Literature | | Publication date | 08 Mar 2007 | | Height (mm) | 228 | | Library of Congress | 2006031965 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 822.33 | | Spine width (mm) | 10 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Tertiary education |
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| Ch. 1 | | Character | | 1 | | | | Juliet's balcony, Verona | | 1 | | | | Shakespeare's realism? | | 3 | | | | Shakespeare's 'unreal' characters | | 4 | | | | Reading Shakespeare's characters on the page | | 6 | | | | Embodying Shakespeare's characters on stage | | 7 | | | | Doubling on the early modern stage | | 8 | | | | Writing for particular actors | | 11 | | | | Falstaff : character as individual or type? | | 12 | | | | Naming and individuality | | 12 | | | | Characters as individuals or as inter-relationships | | 14 | | | | Character : interior or exterior? | | 17 | | | | Character : where next? | | 19 | | Ch. 2 | | Performance | | 23 | | | | Measure for measure : staging silence | | 23 | | | | 'Going back to the text' : the challenge of performance | | 26 | | | | Performance interpretations : The taming of the shrew | | 27 | | | | Topical performance : the plays in different theatrical contexts | | 30 | | | | Citing performances | | 32 | | | | Using film | | 33 | | | | Using film comparatively : Macbeth | | 35 | | | | Hamlet : 'to be or not to be' | | 39 | | | | Adaptations : Shakespearean enough? | | 41 | | | | Performance : where next? | | 42 | | Ch. 3 | | Texts | | 46 | | | | Shakespeare's hand | | 46 | | | | So what did Shakespeare write? | | 47 | | | | Stage to page | | 48 | | | | Quartos and Folio | | 49 | | | More... | | |
'... a dazzling, reader-friendly tutorial in reading Shakespearean drama.' Emily Bartels, Rutgers University, New Jersey 'I'll be entirely happy to recommend this to students. It's accessible, it's divided up by topic in a way that reflects the different approaches one might take to Shakespeare in class (e.g. structure/genre, historical context), the suggestions for further reading are realistic and helpful and include well-chosen online materials, and it's framed in a way that invites further discussion either in the classroom or in the study.' Tom Rutter, Sheffield Hallam University  Be the first to write a customer review
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