William Shakespeare and Others

Collaborative Plays
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-27144-0
Verlag: Macmillan Education

Buch, Englisch, 752 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1712 g

Reihe: The RSC Shakespeare

Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of the fascinatingly varied body of plays that has become known as ‘The Shakespeare Apocrypha’. As a companion to their award-winning The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works, renowned scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, supported by a dynamic team of co-editors, now provide a fascinating insight into ten plays in which Shakespeare may have had a hand. A magisterial essay by Will Sharpe provides a comprehensive account of the Authorship and Attribution of each play.Combining outstanding textual scholarship with elegant writing and design, this unique collection allows us to revisit the question of what is Shakespearean. It is an indispensable book for students, teachers, performers, scholars and lovers of Shakespeare everywhere.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rasmussen, Eric

Bate, Jonathan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Introduction; J.Bate.- SHAKESPEARE AND OTHERS: COLLABORATIVE PLAYS.- For each play:Individual introduction by J.Bate.- On-page footnote gloss which explains unfamiliar or obsolete words and classical, biblical or contemporary references where WS assumes audience knowledge.- 'Key Facts' box with: plot summary, major roles, date, linguistic medium, sources, textual notes.- Arden of Faversham.- Locrine.- Edward III.- The Spanish Tragedy (with Additions).- Thomas Lord Cromwell.- Sir Thomas More.- The London Prodigal.- A Yorkshire Tragedy.- Mucedorus (with Additions).- Double Falsehood; or The Distressed Lovers.- Cardenio: The Source.- Authorship and Attribution; W. Sharpe.- From Script to Stage: Interviews with actors and directors; P. Kirwan.

Über Autor(innen)

JONATHAN BATE is Provost of Worcester College and Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford, UK. Well known as a critic, biographer and broadcaster, he has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA, and was previously King Alfred Professor at the University of Liverpool and Professor of Shakespeare at the University of Warwick. Among his many books are a biography of Shakespeare, Soul of the Age, and a history of his fame, The Genius of Shakespeare. His biography of the poet John Clare won Britain's two oldest literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. His one-man play for Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare, was performed in Edinburgh, London, New York and Chicago, and he was consultant curator for the British Museum's major exhibition for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Shakespeare Staging the World. He is a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Vice-President (Humanities) of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Eric Rasmussen is Foundation Professor of English and Chair at the University of Nevada. His recent publications include the award-winning catalogue raisonné The Shakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue, co-edited with Anthony James West, and its companion volume The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios (Palgrave Macmillan). He is co-author, with Lars Engle, of Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries (Wiley Blackwell) and is an editor of The Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama, and of plays in the Arden Shakespeare series, the New Variorum Shakespeare, the Oxford World's Classics series, the Revels Plays series, and the Cambridge Complete Works of Ben Jonson. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Association of America, on the General Council of the Malone Society, and as General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project – one of the most visited Shakespearean websites in the world.