The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of Measure for Measure Angela Stock has written a new introductory section that takes account of recent scholarly criticism and important contemporary productions on stage and film. The edition retains the text prepared by Brian Gibbons together with his comprehensive introduction, in which he shows how the play's critical reception and stage history varies from one period to the next according to the prevailing social, moral and religious issues of the day. Gibbons explores the thrilling experience of watching the play in performance, with its shocking reversals and surprises, great tragic poetry and exuberant comic prose. An updated reading list completes the edition.
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of Measure for Measure Angela Stock has written a new introductory section that takes account of recent scholarly criticism and important contemporary productions on stage and film. The edition retains the text prepared by Brian Gibbons together with his comprehensive introduction, in which he shows how the play's critical reception and stage history varies from one period to the next according to the prevailing social, moral and religious issues of the day. Gibbons explores the thrilling experience of watching the play in performance, with its shocking reversals and surprises, great tragic poetry and exuberant comic prose. An updated reading list completes the edition.
Über den Autor
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and shareholder in the theatrical company later known as the King's Men. Widely regarded as one of the central figures in world literature, he wrote tragedies, comedies, histories, romances, and poems that helped define English drama and continue to shape theatre, language, and literary study. His plays combine poetic force, psychological depth, theatrical intelligence, political insight, and an extraordinary command of character and speech.Shakespeare's major works include Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and Antony and Cleopatra. His comedies often turn on disguise, courtship, mistaken identity, social pressure, and the unstable relation between desire and public order. All's Well That Ends Well stands among his most challenging comic plays, combining wit, romance, social ambition, moral unease, and theatrical ingenuity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of abbreviations and conventions; Introduction: Date; Puritanism, political allusion and censorship; The sources and their shaping; The play; The play on the stage; Note of the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Reading list.
