Title:
Shakespeare / Kiernan Ryan.
Author:
Ryan, Kiernan, 1950-
Publication Information:
Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave, c2002.
Call Number:
PR2976 .R93 2002
Abstract:
This book mounts a renewed challenge to orthodox and oppositional critics who continue to regard Shakespearian drama as conservative in intent or effect. It seeks to show how Shakespeare's drama retains its relevance for audiences today.
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Edition:
3rd ed.
ISBN:
9780333781975
9780333781982
Physical Description:
ix, 236 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
Previous edition: London : Prentice Hall, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995.
Contents:
Reinterpreting Shakespeare Today -- New Critical Perspectives -- Re-reading The Merchant of Venice -- The Historical Dimension -- The Future of History: 1 and 2 Henry IV -- The Politics of Interpretation -- 'From a prince to a prentice' -- 'of things/ As yet not come to life' -- Shakespearean Tragedy: The Subversive Imagination -- Questioning the Consensus -- Romeo and Juliet: The Murdering Word -- 'That's he that was Othello' -- Macbeth: 'For mine own good' -- King Lear: 'men/ Are as the time is' -- Shakespearean Comedy and Romance: The Utopian Imagination -- 'let wonder seem familiar' -- Playing for Time: The Comedy of Errors -- Measure for Measure: Double Trouble -- The Tempest: The Complicities of Art -- 'Dreaming on things to come': Shakespeare and the Future of Criticism.
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