Aspects of Shakespeare's 'Problem Plays'

Klappentext This book is designed as a stimulating introduction to Shakespeare's 'problem plays' and to conflicting interpretations of them. Zusammenfassung These articles! reprinted from various volumes of Shakespeare Survey! concern three plays; Measure for Measure! Troilus and Cressida and All's Well That Ends Well. Since the early years of this century they have been seen as an interrelated group! with a peculiarly twentieth-century appeal. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; Preface; Directing problem plays John Barton and Gareth Lloyd Evans; All's Well That Ends Well Nicholas Brooke; The design of All's Well That Ends Well R. L. Smallwood; Why does it end well? Helena, Bertram and the Sonnets Roger Warren; The Renaissance background of Measure for Measure Elizabeth Pope; The unfolding of Measure for Measure James Black; 'The devil's party': Virtue and vices in Measure for Measure Harriet Hawkins; Troilus and Cressida Kenneth Muir; 'Sons and daughters of the game': An essay on Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida R. A. Yoder; The problem plays, 1920-1970: A retrospect Michael Jamieson; Reviews.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Muir, Stanley W. Wells
• Assisted by: Kenneth Muir (Editor), Muir Kenneth (Editor), Stanley Wells (Editor), Wells Stanley (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521283717
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28371-7
• Series: Aspects of Shakespeare 5 Volume Paperback Set
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean