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Informationen zum Autor A. E. DYSON general editor of the series, is Honorary Fellow of the University of East Anglia, where he has taught for many years. His publications include Yeats, Eliot and R. S. Thomas (1981), as well as titles in the Casebook series. Klappentext This revision of the successful Casebook first published in 1968, brings the book up-to-date for the 1990's, both with new criticism and with reviews of new productions. The detailed 'Critical Reactions before 1900' section is retained, including comment from such critics as John Dryden, Johnson and Coleridge, the 'Play in Performance' section includes some of the most recent performances and the 'Twentieth-century Criticism' section ranges over the varied work of such critics as A.C.Bradley, L.C.Knights, Kay Stockholder, Michael Long and Leonard Tennenhouse. Zusammenfassung A revised edition of the casebook first published in 1968, this book contains new criticisms and reviews of new productions. It is an anthology of basic studies of Shakespeare's last tragedy. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsGeneral Editor's PrefaceIntroductionPART 1: CRITICAL REACTIONS BEFORE 1900PART 2: THE PLAY IN PERFORMANCEPART 3: TWENTIETHCENTURY CRITICISMSelect BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
General Editor's Preface
Introduction
PART 1: CRITICAL REACTIONS BEFORE 1900
PART 2: THE PLAY IN PERFORMANCE
PART 3: TWENTIETH
CENTURY CRITICISM
Select Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index.
About the author
JOHN RUSSELL-BROWN is an Honorary Visiting Professor at University College London, and has held chairs of English and Theatre in both England and the USA.
