All's Well that Ends Well: The Oxford Shakespeare

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-953712-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 191 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Reihe: Oxford World's Classics

Usually classifed as a 'problem comedy', All's Well that Ends Well invites a fresh assessment. Its psychologically disturbing presentation of an agressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery won it little favour in earlier centuries, and both directors and critics have frequently tried to avoid or simplify its uncomfortable elements. More recently, several distinguished productions have revealed it as an exceptionally penetrating study of both
personal and social issues.

In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible. She explains how the very discords of style can be seen as a source of theatrical power and complexity, and offers a fully reconsidered, helpfully annotated text for both readers and actors.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Shakespeare, William

Snyder, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Snyder is Gil and Frank Mustin Professor of English Literature, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.