The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-960228-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 128 mm x 199 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

Reihe: Oxford World's Classics

The last major play in the Oxford Shakespeare series, Richard II features a freshly edited version of the text based on the early quartos and first Folio of 1623, with thorough accompanying material for readers, students, and performers.
Wide-ranging introduction describes the play's historical circumstances, both the period that it dramatizes (the start of the 'wars of the roses') and the period in which it was written (late Elizabethan England), and the play's political significance in its own time and our own. It also focuses on the play's richly poetic language and its success over the centuries as a play for the stage.
Extensive explanatory notes help readers at all levels understand and appreciate the language, characters, and dramatic action.
Careful analysis of textual issues for those interested in the transmission of the text.
Lively illustrations provide a sense of the historical background and performance history.

The Oxford Shakespeare
General Editor: Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers

- a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from the early texts
- wide-ranging introduction discusses the play's historical contexts, political significance, characters, sources, and language
- detailed stage history designed to meet the needs of students and theatre professionals
- on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, allusions, staging, and much else
- illustrated with production photographs, historical portraits, textual facsimiles, and map
- full index to introduction and commentary
- durable sewn binding for lasting use

Zielgruppe

Students of Shakespeare, drama, theatre studies, actors and producers, general readers and playgoers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shakespeare, William

Dawson, Anthony B.

Yachnin, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen

Über Autor(innen)

Dawson, Anthony B.
Anthony Dawson is an editor, theatre historian, and literary critic, who has published widely on Shakespeare and the early modern theatre.

Yachnin, Paul
Paul Yachnin was elected President of the Shakespeare Association of America in April 2008. He directs the Making Publics Project and co-directs the McGill Shakespeare and Performance Research Team. He is the founder of the McGill Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas. His publications include Stage-Wrights and The Culture of Playgoing in Early Modern England (with Anthony Dawson).

Edited by Anthony B. Dawson, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, and Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies

Anthony Dawson is an editor, theatre historian, and literary critic, who has published widely on Shakespeare and the early modern theatre.

Paul Yachnin was elected President of the Shakespeare Association of America in April 2008. He directs the Making Publics Project and co-directs the McGill Shakespeare and Performance Research Team. He is the founder of the McGill Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas. His publications include Stage-Wrights and The Culture of Playgoing in Early Modern England (with Anthony Dawson).