The Merry Wives of Windsor

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare''s enduringly popular comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merry Wives of Windsor in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews withtwo leading directors and an actor - Bill Alexander, Rachel Kavanaugh and Simon Callow- providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare''s career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed.Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare''s works for the twenty-first century.>

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Eric Rasmussen is a Professor and Chair of the English department at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Jonathan Bate (Herausgeber), Eric Rasmussen (Herausgeber)
• Autoren: Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen, William Shakespeare
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2011
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur
• EAN: 9780230284111
• ISBN: 978-0-230-28411-1
• Anzahl Seiten: 192
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 12.9 x 19.9 x 1.3 cm
• Serie: The RSC Shakespeare; Royal Shakespeare Company; The RSC Shakespeare; Présentoir boîte colis plein; Royal Shakespeare Company
• Themen: B, Shakespeare, History, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616