How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text

Informationen zum Autor Eugene Giddens is Skinner-Young Professor in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He is an associate editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson and a general editor of The Complete Works of James Shirley. Klappentext An invaluable introductory guide for students on how to engage with the original printed texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Zusammenfassung This is an invaluable introductory guide for the English student who needs to decipher a page from a play! or a facsimile equivalent! from the Shakespearean period. Giddens guides the reader through bibliography and critical editing! explaining how it works! what the different elements mean! and who created them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The creation and circulation of play texts; 2. The features of play texts; 3. Reading the originals; 4. Reading modern editions; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Dr. Eugene Giddens, Eugene Giddens, Eugene (Anglia Ruskin University Giddens, Eugene (Dr.) Giddens
• Assisted by: Dr. Eugene Giddens (Editor), Eugene Giddens (Editor), Eugene (Anglia Ruskin University Giddens (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521886406
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88640-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights