Pericles

Informationen zum Autor William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time. Suzanne Gossett (Ph.D. Princeton) is Professor Emerita of English at Loyola University Chicago. She is a General Editor of Arden Early Modern Drama and has recently served as president of the Shakespeare Association of America. Klappentext Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and female central characters, based on a reading 'through the family', and influenced by the feminist and new historicist criticism of the last two decades. The edition integrates cumulative research on Shakespeare's collaborative authorship and the transmission of the text without rewriting the play or ignoring years of emendations. Vorwort The latest Arden edition of Shakespeare's Pericles Zusammenfassung Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and female central characters, based on a reading 'through the family', and influenced by the feminist and new historicist criticism of the last two decades. The edition integrates cumulative research on Shakespeare's collaborative authorship and the transmission of the text without rewriting the play or ignoring years of emendations.

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.Suzanne Gossett (Ph.D. Princeton) is Professor Emerita of English at Loyola University Chicago. She is a General Editor of Arden Early Modern Drama and has recently served as president of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Gossett, William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Prof. Suzanne (Loyola University Chicago Gossett (Editor), Suzanne Gossett (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2004
• EAN: 9781903436851
• ISBN: 978-1-903436-85-1
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Arden Shakespeare; The Arden Shakespeare Third Series; Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Literary Criticism & Collections, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Educational: English Literature, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean