Troilus and Cressida

This new edition features a thoroughly revised and updated introduction, an updated reading list, and new illustrations.

List of contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and conventions; Introduction: style and genre: heap of rubbish, salty comedy, or what?; The play in its time; Symmetrical structures; Interpreting the language; Cressida; Literary identity; Scepticism and speculation; The play in performance: the play in 2015 with Gretchen Minton; Staging the staging; Note on the text; The 1609 epistle to the reader; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix: sources of the play; Reading list.

About the author

Anthony B. Dawson is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is the author of several books, including The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England: A Collaborative Debate (with Paul Yachnin, Cambridge, 2001), Hamlet (Shakespeare in Performance) (1995), Watching Shakespeare: A Playgoers' Guide (1988) and Indirections: Shakespeare and the Art of Illusion (1978).Gretchen Minton is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Montana State University. She is the editor of several books, including John Bale's 'The Image of Both Churches' (2013) and Timon of Athens (with Anthony B. Dawson, 2008). She has also published many articles in journals, including Renaissance and Reformation and Reformation: The Journal of the Tyndale Society.

Summary

This second edition of Troilus and Cressida features a new introductory section by Anthony B. Dawson and Gretchen Minton which focuses on recent scholarship and important contemporary productions. A number of new illustrations have been added to the Introduction, while an updated reading list completes the edition.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Anthony B. Dawson (Editor), Dawson Anthony B. (Editor), Minton Gretchen (Introduction)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107130449
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13044-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean