Description
| Product ID: | 9781107643321 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Title: | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy |
| Authors: | Author: Claire McEachern |
| Page Count: | 321 |
| Subjects: | Theatre studies, Theatre studies, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Shakespeare plays, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Shakespeare studies & criticism |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This updated Companion has been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship. With an extensively overhauled bibliography, it also includes four new chapters by leading scholars, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare's tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion. This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare''s tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in criticism. Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespeare''s tragedies, cultural backgrounds, sub-genres and receptions of the plays. The book examines the four major tragedies and, in addition, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. Essays from the first edition have been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship; the bibliography has been extensively updated; and four new chapters have been added, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare''s tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-08-08 |