Shakespeare and Multiplicity (Hardcover)

Brian Gibbons presents the idea of multiplicity as a way of understanding the form and style of Shakespeare's plays: composed of many different codes, woven together in a unique pattern for each play, rather than variations on fixed notions of comedy or tragedy. Selecting from different phases of Shakespeare's career, the book's method is comparison, using an imaginative range of texts and new approaches; there is also lively discussion of modern staging. Comparison with major works by Spenser, Sidney and Marlowe is complemented by a demonstration of Shakespeare's re-use of his own previous plays and poems. Far from reducing the plays to a formula, Brian Gibbons shows how criticism articulates what popular audiences have always known, that the plays' sheer abundance and variety is their strength. This is an original book, scholarly yet straightforward, on an issue of central interest.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1993
First published:	1993
Authors:	Brian Gibbons
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-44406-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism Promotions
LSN:	0-521-44406-3
Barcode:	9780521444064

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