Cymbeline

Klappentext This new edition of Shakespeare's Cymbeline takes full account of the critical and historical scholarship produced in the late twentieth century. It foregrounds the elements of romance, tragicomedy and Jacobean stagecraft which together shape the play; it also acknowledges the postmodern indeterminacy of the play's key moments. Martin Butler breaks with the legacy of the sentimental Victorian reading of the heroine, Innogen, which still exerts some hold on production and interpretation today, and has given greater space than his predecessors to the politics of 1610, especially to questions of British union and nationhood. The play has been freshly edited from the text in the 1623 folio, with some interesting textual choices, and has a detailed commentary on linguistic and historical aspects of the text. There is also a full treatment of the play's stage history, from 1610 to the present day. Zusammenfassung This new edition of Shakespeare's Cymbeline foregrounds the elements of romance! tragicomedy and Jacobean stagecraft which together shape the play; it also acknowledges the postmodern indeterminacy of the play's key moments. Martin Butler presents a refreshingly unsentimental reading of the heroine! Innogen. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction (Date, Romance and folktale, Tragedy and tragicomedy, The woman's part, Romans and Britons, Cymbeline on stage); The play; 'Hark, hark, the lark'; Textual analysis; Reading list.

List of contents

Introduction (Date, Romance and folktale, Tragedy and tragicomedy, The woman's part, Romans and Britons, Cymbeline on stage); The play; 'Hark, hark, the lark'; Textual analysis; Reading list.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Butler, William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Martin Butler (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2011
• EAN: 9780521296946
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29694-6
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 227 mm x 13 mm
• Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare: The; The New Cambridge Shakespeare (NCS); The New Cambridge Shakespeare; The New Cambridge Shakespeare (NCS)
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Englisch; Lektüre, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean