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When Shakespeare gave up tragedy around 1607 and turned to the new
form we call romance or tragicomedy, he created a distinctive
poetic idiom that often bewildered audiences and readers. The plays
of this period, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The
Tempest, as well as Shakespeare's part in the collaborations with
John Fletcher (Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen), exhibit a
challenging verse style - verbally condensed, metrically and
syntactically sophisticated, both conversational and
highly-wrought. In Shakespeare's Late Style, McDonald anatomizes
the components of this late style, illustrating in a series of
topically organized chapters the contribution of such features as
ellipsis, grammatical suspension, and various forms of repetition.
Resisting the sentimentality that frequently attends discussion of
an artist's 'late' period, Shakespeare's Late Style shows how the
poetry of the last plays reveals their creator's ambivalent
attitude towards art, language, men and women, the theatre, and his
own professional career.
When Shakespeare gave up tragedy around 1607 and turned to the new
form we call romance or tragicomedy, he created a distinctive
poetic idiom that often bewildered audiences and readers. The plays
of this period, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The
Tempest, as well as Shakespeare's part in the collaborations with
John Fletcher (Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen), exhibit a
challenging verse style - verbally condensed, metrically and
syntactically sophisticated, both conversational and highly
wrought. In Shakespeare's Late Style, McDonald anatomizes the
components of this late style, illustrating in a series of
topically organized chapters the contribution of such features as
ellipsis, grammatical suspension, and various forms of repetition.
Resisting the sentimentality that frequently attends discussion of
an artist's 'late' period, Shakespeare's Late Style shows how the
poetry of the last plays reveals their creator's ambivalent
attitude towards art, language, men and women, the theatre, and his
own professional career.
Oxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. For the modern reader or playgoer, English as Shakespeare used it- especially in verse drama - can seem alien. Shakespeare and the Arts of Language offers practical help with linguistic and poetic obstacles. Written in a lucid, nontechnical style, the book defines Shakespeare's artistic tools, including imagery, rhetoric, and wordplay, and illustrates their effects. Throughout, the reader is encouraged to find delight in the physical properties of the words: their colour, weight, and texture, the appeal of verbal patterns, and the irresistible affective power of intensified language.
Providing a unique combination of well-written, up-to-date
background information and intriguing selections from primary
documents, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare introduces students
to the topics most important to the study of Shakespeare in their
full historical and cultural context. This new edition contains
many new documents, particularly by women and other marginalized
voices from the early modern period. There is also a new chapter on
Shakespeare in performance, which introduces students to the great
variety of productions of Shakespeare's works over the centuries.
This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading
international scholars, offers expert close readings of Shakespeare
and other early modern authors. The book is an intervention into
current critical methodology as well as an invaluable tool for all
students of the literature of the period, exemplifying the
possibilities of close reading in the hands of a range of gifted
practitioners. Chapters cover a range of key texts from Shakespeare
and other major writers of the period such as Milton, Donne, Jonson
and Sidney.
This is a unique collection as no other book offers such a rich
variety of self-contained, short-form close readings. As such it
can be used in the undergraduate classroom as well as by scholars
and post-graduates and will also appeal to literary readers with an
enthusiasm for Shakespeare. Contributors include leading
Shakespeareans Stanley Wells, Stanley Fish, Coppelia Kahn and Lukas
Erne.
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The Winter's Tale (Paperback, Ed)
William Shakespeare; Contributions by Paul Edmondson; Introduction by Russ McDonald; Revised by Russ McDonald
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'The work of Shakespeare is virtually infinite' Jorge Luis Borges A
jealous king, convinced that his wife has been unfaithful and is
having another man's baby, imprisons her and puts her on trial. The
child is abandoned to die, but when she is found and raised by a
shepherd, it seems redemption may be possible. A bravura blend of
tragedy, comedy and romance, Shakespeare's emotionally potent late
play explores artifice and nature, mortality and renewal, and the
destructive and consoling effects of time. Used and Recommended by
the National Theatre General Editor Stanley Wells Edited by Ernest
Schanzer Introduction by Russ McDonald
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