"Troilus and Cressida" (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)

This volume offers the most comprehensive and critically up-to-date edition of Troilus and Cressida available today. Bevingtonas learned and engaging introduction discusses the ambivalent status and genre of the play, variously presented in its early printing as a comedy, a history and a tragedy. He examines and assimilates the wide variety of critical responses the play has elicited, and argues its importance in todayas culture as an experimental and open-ended work. He also, however, suggests that this experimentalism may have contributed to its lack of immediate stage success, and goes on to place the work in its late Elizabethan context of political instability and theatrical rivalry. A thorough performance history focuses chiefly on recent productions. The complex text situation is re-examined and the differing textual readings carefully explicated. 'Bevington's edition is so clearly the best now available that it will no doubt quickly become standard practice for all study of this remarkable play to begin with this remarkable edition.' Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare Survey

General

Imprint:	The Arden Shakespeare
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Arden Shakespeare
Release date:	August 1998
First published:	August 1998
Authors:	William Shakespeare
Volume editors:	David Bevington
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	496
Edition:	3rd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-903436-70-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts Books > Children's & Educational > Language & literature > English (including English as a school subject) > English literary criticism > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun
LSN:	1-903436-70-2
Barcode:	9781903436707

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