Shakespeare and the Institution of Theatre - The Best in This Kind

Zusatztext "A breathtaking and courageous book." - Constance Jordan! Claremont Graduate University Informationen zum Autor ERICA SHEEN is a lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literatures at the University of York, UK. She teaches and researches in Shakespeare and the Renaissance, American cinema (especially Hollywood in the Cold War), European film (especially Italian), and Literature/Film. Klappentext This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre! presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career! from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest ! mapping a new approach to ideas of the theatre as an institution. Zusammenfassung This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre! presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career! from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest ! mapping a new approach to ideas of the theatre as an institution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements The Institution of Theatre Nebuchadnezzar's Tree A Pleasure and a Profit Welcome to your Chamber Calling Fools into a Circle The Only Men A Stranger to My Heart 'Tis Time Index

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Contents Acknowledgements The Institution of Theatre Nebuchadnezzar's Tree A Pleasure and a Profit Welcome to your Chamber Calling Fools into a Circle The Only Men A Stranger to My Heart 'Tis Time Index

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"A breathtaking and courageous book." - Constance Jordan, Claremont Graduate University

Product details

• Authors: E Sheen, E. Sheen, Erica Sheen
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2009
• EAN: 9780230524804
• ISBN: 978-0-230-52480-4
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies; Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, European History, Poetry, Theatre Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Poetry and Poetics, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, European history: medieval period, middle ages