The Tragedy of Coriolanus

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521075299
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, put into practice the techniques and theories that had evolved under the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably by today's standards, although it took the best part of half a century to produce, the New Shakespeare involved only a small band of editors besides Dover Wilson himself. As the volumes took shape, many of Dover Wilson's textual methods acquired general acceptance and became an established part of later editorial practice, for example in the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares.

A School Shakespeare ...

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 712

Book Description

Coriolanus

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Promptbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description

Coriolanus: A Critical Reader

Author: Liam E. Semler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135011121X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
Coriolanus is the last and most intriguing of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies. Critics, directors and actors have long been bewitched by this gripping character study of a warrior that Rome can neither tolerate nor do without. Caius Martius Coriolanus is a terrifying war machine in battle, a devoted son to a wise and ambitious mother at home, and an inflammatory scorner of the rights and rites of the common people. This Critical Reader opens up the extraordinary range of interpretation the play has elicited over the centuries and offers exciting new directions for scholarship. The volume commences with a Timeline of key events relating to Coriolanus in print and performance and an Introduction by the volume editor. Chapters survey the scholarly reaction to the play over four centuries, the history of Coriolanus on stage and the current research and thinking about the play. The second half of the volume comprises four 'New Directions' essays exploring: the rhetoric and performance of the self, the play's relevance to our contemporary world, an Hegelian approach to the tragedy, and the insights of computer-assisted stylometry. A final chapter critically surveys resources for teaching the play.

Coriolanus

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198390374
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Coriolanus is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. Part of the acclaimed Oxford School Shakespeare series, this edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.

As You Like It (2009 Edition)

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198328698
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
As You Like It is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity

Author: Colin Burrow
Publisher: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN: 0199684782
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
This book explains for students and scholars the nature and extent of Shakespeare's classical learning. It shows why Ben Jonson was wrong to claim that he had 'small Latin and less Greek', and demonstrates that Shakespeare acquired the central foundations of his art from his classical reading. It explores in detail his relationship to Virgil, Ovid, Plautus, Terence, Seneca, and Plutarch, as well as showing how his beliefs about and attitudes towards classicalliterature changed in the course of his career.

The Tempest (2010 edition)

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198325000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Tempest is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

The Pelican Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Shakespeare and Masculinity

Author: Bruce R. Smith
Publisher: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN: 9780198711896
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Oxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare. Richard III, Romeo, Prince Harry, Malvolio, Hamlet, Lear, Antony, Coriolanus, Prospero: Shakespeare's roster of male protagonists is astonishingly various. Shakespeare and Masculinity juxtaposes these memorable characters with the medical beliefs, ethical ideals, and social realities that shaped masculine identity for Shakespeare, as for his fellow actors and their audiences. At the same time it explores the process of male self-definition against various sorts of 'others' - women, foreigners, social inferiors, sodomites. Reflecting the truth that the plays' principal existence is in the live theatre, the book finishes with a transhistorical, multicultural survey of how masculinity has been performed in productions of Shakespeare's plays - in France, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Japan, and elsewhere - and with a challenge to imagine masculinity in fuller and more satisfying ways.