Companion to Shakespeare Studies

Klappentext The studies in this volume cover all aspects of Shakespearian scholarship. Zusammenfassung The studies in this volume cover all aspects of Shakespearian scholarship. They explore Shakespeare's biography! his work in relation to the English spoken at the time! his use and knowledge of music! and his sources as well as exploring the text of the plays! criticism and scholarship! and the theatre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The life of Shakespeare J. W. Mackail; 2. The theatres and companies C. J. Sisson; 3. Shakespeare's dramatic art Harley Granville-Baker; 4. Shakespeare the poet George Rylands; 5. Shakespeare and Elizabethan English G. D. Willcock; 6. Shakespeare and music Edward J. Dent; 7. The national background G. B. Harrison; 8. The social background M. St Clare Byrne; 9. Shakespeare's sources A. L. Attwater; 10. Shakespeare and the drama of his time Bonamy Dobrée; 11. Shakespeare's text A. W. Pollard; 12. Shakespearian Criticism I: from Dryden to Coleridge T. S. Eliot; 13. Shakespearian criticism II: From Coleridge to the present day J. Isaacs; 14. Shakespearian scholarship J. Isaacs; 15. Shakespeare in the theatre from the Restoration to the present time Harold Child; Reading list; Appendix 1. Comparative tables of the age and dramatic activity of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; Appendix 2. A chronological table (plays, books, and national events); Appendix 3. A note on prices in Shakespeare's time A. V. Judges; Index.

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• Authors: H. Granville-Barker, Harley Harrison Granville-Barker
• Assisted by: H. Granville-Barker (Editor), Harley Granville-Barker (Editor), G. B. Harrison (Editor), George Bagshaw Harrison (Editor), Harrison G. B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521159012
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15901-2
• No. of pages: 430
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean