Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays

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John Wiley & Sons, 9. 6. 2008 - Počet stran: 256
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This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life.

  • Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespeare's plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the plays and those of our own time.

  • Focuses on the characters, situations and stories in Shakespeare which are still familiar today.

  • Shows how Shakespeare's plays illustrate some of life's most familiar stories - love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering and revenge

  • Makes Shakespeare’s plays accessible to the widest possible audience.
 

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Introduction
1
1 Private Life Shakespeare and Selfhood
12
2 Marital Life Shakespeare and Romance
50
3 Political Life Shakespeare and Government
88
4 Public Life Shakespeare and Social Structures
140
5 Real Life Shakespeare and Suffering
180
Works Cited
223
Index
235
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Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays
Laurie Maguire
Omezený náhled - 2003
Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays
Laurie Maguire
Omezený náhled - 2008
Studying Shakespeare
Laurie Maguire
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O autorovi (2008)

Laurie Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and a Lecturer in English at Oxford University. She is the author of Shakespearean Suspect Texts (1996) and co-editor of Textual Formations and Reformations (1998), among other publications.

Bibliografické údaje

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TitulStudying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays
AutorLaurie Maguire
VydavatelJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN0470705035, 9780470705032
DélkaPočet stran: 256
  
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