Shakespeare

Author(s)

• Ryan, Kiernan

Bibliographic Information

Shakespeare

Kiernan Ryan

Prentice Hall, 1995

2nd ed

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This text mounts a challenge to orthodox and oppositional critics who continue to regard Shakespearian drama as conservative in intent or effect.

Table of Contents

• Reinterpreting Shakespeare today - new critical perspectives
• re-reading "The Merchant of Venice"
• the historical dimension
• the future of history - 1 and 2 Henry IV
• the politics of interpretation
• "From Prince to a Prentice"
• "Of Things/As Yet Not Come to Life"
• Shakespearian tragedy
• the subversive imagination - questioning the consensus
• "Romeo and Juliet" - the murdering word
• that's he that was "Othello"
• "Macbeth" - for mine own good
• "King Lear" - "Men/Are As The Time Is"
• Shakespearean comedy and romance - the utopian imagination
• "Let Wonder Seem Familiar"
• "The Tempest" - the complicities of art.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA25555519
• ISBN:
  • 0133555461
• LCCN: 95005834
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 165 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR2976
  • DC20 : 822.3/3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation