Shakespeare on Page and Stage

Selected Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-878654-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 777 g

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 literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland, and its thirty chapters are divided into themed sections: 'Shakespearian Influences', 'Essays on Particular Works', 'Shakespeare in the Theatre', and 'Shakespeare's Text'. An afterword by Margreta de Grazia concludes the volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wells, Stanley

Edmondson, Paul

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Shakespearian Influences

- 1: Shakespeare: Man of the European Renaissance

- 2: Tales from Shakespeare

- Essays on Particular Works

- 3: The Failure of The Two Gentlemen of Verona

- 4: The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear: A Structural Comparison

- 5: The Integration of Violent Action in Titus Andronicus

- 6: The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet

- 7: The Uses of Inconsequentiality (Romeo and Juliet)

- 8: Laments in Richard II

- 9: A Midsummer Night's Dream Revisited

- 10: Translations in A Midsummer Night's Dream

- 11: The Division of the Kingdoms (King Lear)

- 12: Points of Stagecraft in The Tempest

- 13: My Name is Will (The Sonnets)

- 14: Shakespeare Without Sources

- Shakespeare in the Theatre

- 16: Boys Should be Girls: Shakespeares Female Roles and the Boy Players

- 17: Staging Shakespeares Ghosts

- 18: Staging Shakespeares Apparitions and Dream Visions

- 19: Shakespeare in Planché s Extravaganzas

- 20: Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm s Theatre Criticism

- 21: Shakespeare in Leigh Hunt s Theatre Criticism

- 22: Shakespeare in William Hazlitt s Theatre Criticism

- 23: A Favourite Production: Peter Hall's Coriolanus

- Shakespeare's Text

- 22: On Being A General Editor

- 23: Editorial Treatment of Foul-Paper Texts: Much Ado About Nothing as Test Case

- 24: Money in Shakespeares Comedies

- 25: To Read a Play: The Problem of Editorial Intervention

- 26: The First Folio: where would we be without it?

- Select Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley Wells, described by Roy Hattersley as 'Our greatest authority on Shakespeare's life and work', is honorary President of The Shakespeare Birthplace, Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies of the University of Birmingham, and Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. For nearly twenty years he was the editor of the annual Shakespeare Survey. His most recent books are Shakespeare For All Time, Looking for Sex in Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Sex, and Love, and Great Shakespeare Actors. He was knighted in 2016 for services to Shakespeare scholarship.