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  • King Lear

    Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

    by Joseph Candido, Professor Brian Vickers ...
    Series series Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
    This volume documents the reception and interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear by critics, editors and general readers from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. Following an introduction which provides an historical account of the play's critical reception from the earliest times to the present day, the volume presents a selection of original documents, together with contextual ... Read more

    $178.19 USD

  • The Merchant of Venice

    Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

    by Professor Gary Watt, Professor Brian Vickers, Joseph Candido ...
    Series series Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
    This volume documents the full tradition of criticism of The Merchant of Venice ranging from 1775 to 1939.The Merchant of Venice has always been regarded as one of Shakespeare's most interesting plays, though it poses many challenges due to what is seen as its inherent anti-Semitism. Before the 19th century critical reaction is relatively fragmentary, but between then and the late 20th century the ... Read more

    $186.99 USD

  • Twelfth Night

    Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

    by Joseph Candido, Professor Brian Vickers ...
    Series series Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
    This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Twelfth Night was received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism from ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Antony and Cleopatra

    Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

    by Joseph Candido, Professor Brian Vickers ...
    Series series Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
    This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume provides, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The ... Read more

    Was $153.99 USD Now $44.59 USD

  • Coriolanus

    Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

    by Joseph Candido, Professor Brian Vickers ...
    Series series Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
    First published in 2004, David George's majestic compendium of criticism relating to Shakespeare's Coriolanus was recognised as a major contribution to teaching and scholarship on the play. This new edition has been updated with a new supplementary introduction by the author tracing criticism on the play since that first publication, including materialist, psychoanalytic and feminist readings, as ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

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  • Jacobean City Comedy

    by Brian Gibbons ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama
    The first decade of the Jacobean age witnessed a sudden profusion of comedies satirizing city life; among these were comedies by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, as well as the bulk of the repertory of the newly-established children’s companies at Blackfriars and Paul’s. The playwrights self-consciously forged a new genre which attracted London audiences with its images of folly and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

    by Claude Rawson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

    A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom

    by C. L. Barber ...
    "A book ahead of its time. . . . revolutionized the ways that Shakespeareans thought of comedy in relation to its social setting—especially festive comedy." —James Shapiro, Columbia UniversityIn this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • William Shakespeare

    The Critical Heritage Volume 6 1774-1801

    Edited by Brian Vickers ...
    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Shakespeare on Page and Stage

    Selected Essays

    by Prof Stanley Wells ...
    This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare, and over his lifetime he has made significant contributions to debates over ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson

    Edited by Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and masque; in poetry, epigram, epistle and lyric; in prose, literary criticism and English grammar. He became the most visible poet of his age, honored more than even William Shakespeare, and his dramatic ... Read more

    Was $36.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • Mirror up to Shakespeare

    Essays in Honour of G.R. Hibbard

    Edited by Jack Cooper Gray ...
    Series series Heritage
    George Hibbard has always endorsed T.S. Eliot's idea that 'we must know all of Shakespeare's work in order to know any of it,' and this idea, implicit in the first essay in this volume, informs the whole collection, written in honour of one of Canada's leading Shakespearian editors and scholars.The two essays which begin the collection present broad overviews of Elizabethan drama and discuss ... Read more

    $31.69 USD