Why Shakespeare?

AvCatherine Belsey

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Why is Shakespeare as highly regarded now as he ever has been? This book's answer to this question counters claims that Shakespeare's iconic status is no more than an accident of history. The plays, Belsey argues, entice us into a world we recognize by retelling traditional fairy tales with a difference, each chapter providing a detailed reading.

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Utgivningsdatum:2007-04-20
Mått:129 x 198 x 16 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781403993199

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CATHERINE BELSEY is Research Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK. Her books include Critical Practice, The Subject of Tragedy and Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceShakespeare's SingularityAs You Like It and The Golden GooseKing Lear and the Missing SaltThe Exiled Princes in The Winter's TaleFairy Tales for Grown-ups in A Midsummer Night's DreamHamlet and the Reluctant HeroTwelfth Night and the Riddle of GenderCultural Difference as Conundrum in The Merchant of VeniceHappily Ever After?Further ReadingAbbreviations and ReferencesNotesIndex.