Measure for Measure: A Critical Reader

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien Arden Early Modern Drama Guides

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Beskrivning

This scholarly guide to Measure for Measure highlights its unique position in the Shakespeare canon by covering its nuanced performance history and critical backstory.Measure for Measure broke new ground in Shakespeare’s dramatic writing by rejecting the formulae of comedy and tragedy. Issues at the heart of the play including gender equality, rape, judicial process, political authority, slander, and equality before the law provide rich material for teaching and studying. Contributors connect the specifics of these themes from the early modern context to the present day and make crucial interventions to contemporary criticism on the play. Such interpretations explore how sexual politics, reputation, the reformation, ethics, and law shape Measure for Measure for a 21st century audience. Through a wide range of essays, the book provides a comprehensive guide to this criticism as well as its recent stage history that will be useful for scholars and students alike.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-11
Mått:148 x 220 x 24 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350409033

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John Jowett is Emeritus Professor at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.Sarah Olive is Senior Lecturer in the Communication and Culture department, Aston University, UK.

Innehållsförteckning

SERIES INTRODUCTIONNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORSTIMELINEIntroduction JOHN JOWETT1. The Critical Backstory SUZANNE GOSSETT2. On Stage: Isabella’s ‘prone and speechless dialect’ in Performance ELIZABETH SCHAFER3. On Screen: ‘Who will believe thee?’ (2.4.154): Measure for Measure and the Problem of Verisimilitude on Screen SARAH HATCHUEL and NATHALIE VIENNE-GUERRIN4. The State of the Art CARLA DELLA GATTA5. New Directions: Theatres of Reputation in Measure for Measure LAURA KOLB6. New Directions: ‘False prints’: Thinking through Metaphors of Counterfeit Impression in Measure for Measure HARRY NEWMAN7. New Directions: ‘There is pretty orders beginning, I can tell you’: Jacobean Plague-time Policies and Politics in Measure for Measure LORNA GILTROW-SHAW8. New Directions: The Government of Self and Others: Ministerial Power and Hypocrisy in Measure for Measure ALEXANDER THOM9. Resources for Teaching and Studying Measure for Measure SARAH OLIVENOTESWORKS CITEDINDEX