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This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series
increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been
received and understood by critics, editors and general readers.
The volume provides, in separate sections, both critical opinions
about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their
positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The
chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers
in a direct and unbiased dialogue, and the introduction offers a
critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern
theories and methods. This volume makes a major contribution to our
understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean
criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to
century.
First published in 1968. This re-issues the revised edition of
1979. The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose is the first detailed
study of the use of prose in the plays. It begins by defining the
different dramatic and emotional functions which Shakespeare gave
to prose and verse, and proceeds to analyse the recurrent stylistic
devices used in his prose. The general and particular application
of prose is then studied through all the plays, in roughly
chronological order.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and
researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early
performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first
publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range
from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and
contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and
diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are
also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an
author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the
writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of
works, authors and subjects. "The Critical Heritage" is available
as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in
slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to
journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such
as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later
periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations
in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to
the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index
of works, authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage is available
as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in
slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to
journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such
as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later
periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations
in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to
the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index
of works, authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage is available
as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in
slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to
journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such
as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later
periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations
in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to
the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index
of works, authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage is available
as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in
slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
"The Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from essays in the history of criticism to journalism
and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters
and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are
also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an
author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the
writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of
works, authors and subjects. "The Critical Heritage" is available
as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in
slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
Series Information: The Critical Heritage Series
Returning to Shakespeare addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare
criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the history of the
plays' reception. Originally published in 1989, the collection
represents the best of Brian Vickers' work from the previous
fifteen years, in a revised and expanded form. The first part of
the book focuses on the connection between a work's structural or
formal properties and our experience of it. A new study of the
Sonnets shows how personal relationships are literally embodied in
personal pronouns. An essay on Shakespeare's hypocrites (Richard
III, Iago, Macbeth) analyses the uncomfortable intimacy established
between them and the audience by means of soliloquies and asides.
Another traces the interplay between politics and the family in
Coriolanus, two forms of pressure which combine to push the hero
outside society. In the second part Professor Vickers examines some
key episodes in the history of Shakespeare criticism. One essay
reviews the persistence of drastically altered adaptations of
Shakespeare on the London stage from the 1690s to the 1830s, due to
the conservatism of both theatre managers and audience. Another
reconstructs the debate over Hamlet's character in the last quarter
of the eighteenth century, in which the Romantic image of a hero
lacking control of his faculties emerged for the first time. This
is an important collection by an outstanding Shakespeare critic
which will interest specialists and general readers alike.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
First published in 1968. This re-issues the revised edition of
1979.
The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose is the first detailed study of
the use of prose in the plays. It begins by defining the different
dramatic and emotional functions which Shakespeare gave to prose
and verse, and proceeds to analyse the recurrent stylistic devices
used in his prose. The general and particular application of prose
is then studied through all the plays, in roughly chronological
order.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
"The Critical Heritage" gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
This six volume set covers critical perspective on Shakespeare from
1623 throught to 1801. The Critical Heritage gathers together a
large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each
volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully
selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of
criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little
published documentary material such as letters and diaries.
Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also
included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's
reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's
published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works,
authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage set will be available
as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in
mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual
volumes.
First published in 2004, David George's majestic compendium of
criticism relating to Shakespeare's Coriolanus was recognised as a
major contribution to teaching and scholarship on the play. This
new edition has been updated with a new supplementary introduction
by the author tracing criticism on the play since that first
publication, including materialist, psychoanalytic and feminist
readings, as well as further readings of the play's politics. As
with all titles in the series, this edition increases our knowledge
of how Shakespeare's plays were received and understood by critics,
editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate
sections, both critical opinions about the play across the
centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their
impact on the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement
of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased
dialogue, whereas the substantial introduction offers a critical
evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and
methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our
understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean
criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to
century.
Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, studied and
performed around the world. This new volume in Shakespeare: The
Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare's
plays were received and understood by critics, editors and general
readers. It traces the course of Hamlet criticism, from the
earliest items of recorded criticism to the latter half of the
Victorian period. The focus of the documentary material is from the
late 18th century to the late 19th century. Thus the volume makes a
major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the
traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have
developed from century to century. The introduction constitutes an
important chapter of literary history, tracing the entire critical
career of Hamlet from the beginnings to the present day. The volume
features criticism from leading literary figures, such as Henry
James, Anna Jameson, Victor Hugo, Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge and Mary Cowden Clarke. The chronological arrangement of
the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased
dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation
from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus
the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the
play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding
it as they have developed from century to century.
This revised edition of King Richard II: Critical Tradition
increases our the play was received and understood by critics,
editors and general readers. Updated with a new introduction
providing a survey of critical responses to Richard II since the
1990s to the present day, this volume offers, in separate sections,
both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an
evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the
reception of the play. The updated introduction offers an overview
of recent criticism on the play in relation to feminist theory,
queer theory, performance theory and ecocriticism. The
chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers
in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers
a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern
theories and methods. Featuring criticism by A.C. Swinburne, Walter
Pater, Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, this volume makes a major
contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions
of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed
from century to century.
This new volume in Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition increases
our knowledge of how Shakespeare's plays were received and
understood by critics, editors and general readers. Updated with a
new introduction providing a survey of critical responses to the
plays since the late 1930s to the present day, the volume offers,
in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across
the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their
impact on the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement
of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased
dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation
from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus
the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the
play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding
it as they have developed from century to century.
This volume documents the reception and interpretation of
Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear by critics, editors and general
readers from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. Following
an introduction which provides an historical account of the play's
critical reception from the earliest times to the present day, the
volume presents a selection of original documents, together with
contextual head notes and biographical sketches of the authors and
a rationale for their selection, as well as a list of suggested
further reading. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts
engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the
introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance,
including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a
major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the
traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have
developed from century to century.
King Lear exists in two different texts: the Quarto (1608) and the
Folio (1623). Because each supplies passages missing in the other,
for over 200 years editors combined the two to form a single text,
the basis for all modern productions. Then in the 1980s a group of
influential scholars argued that the two texts represent different
versions of King Lear, that Shakespeare revised his play in light
of theatrical performance. The two-text theory has since hardened
into orthodoxy. Now for the first time in a book-length argument,
one of the world's most eminent Shakespeare scholars challenges the
two-text theory. At stake is the way Shakespeare's greatest play is
read and performed. Sir Brian Vickers demonstrates that the cuts in
the Quarto were in fact carried out by the printer because he had
underestimated the amount of paper he would need. Paper was an
expensive commodity in the early modern period, and printers
counted the number of lines or words in a manuscript before
ordering their supply. As for the Folio, whereas the revisionists
claim that Shakespeare cut the text in order to alter the balance
between characters, Vickers sees no evidence of his agency. These
cuts were likely made by the theater company to speed up the
action. Vickers includes responses to the revisionist theory made
by leading literary scholars, who show that the Folio cuts damage
the play's moral and emotional structure and are impracticable on
the stage.
With its depiction of the victorious English king, Henry V has
divided critical opinion and remains one of the more controversial
of Shakespeare's histories. This new volume in Shakespeare: The
Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare's
plays were received and understood by critics, editors and general
readers. The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical
opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of
their positions within and their impact on the reception of the
play. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages
the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the
introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance,
including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a
major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the
traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have
developed from century to century.
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