William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

Texts and Contexts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edition of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include royal proclamations, speeches, court records, sermons, biographical writings, prayers, ballads, poetry, excerpts from plays and the Bible, and drawings, woodcuts, and engravings. These documents contextualize the role of rulers and government in Jacobean society, crime and punishment in London's underworld, the religious and secular laws that regulated marriage and sexuality, Catholic and Puritan morality, and the religious and cultural significance of chastity and virginity in Shakespeare's time. Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an intelligent and engaging general introduction, introductions to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bedford Books / Macmillan Learning
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 153mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780312395063
• ISBN-10: 031239506X
• Artikelnr.: 21756305

Autorenporträt

William Shakespeare; Edited by Ivo Kamps and Karen Raber

Bild: Wikipedia

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
ABOUT THE SERIES
ABOUT THIS VOLUME
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Introduction
PART ONE
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
(Edited by David Bevington)
PART TWO
Cultural Contexts
1. Governance                                                                                                                        
          
The King James Version of Measure for Measure
Divine Right of Kings and Absolution
Machiavelli
Anxiety
Resistance
Slander
     King James I, From The True Law of Free Monarchies
     King James I, From Basilikon Doron
     Barnaby Rich, From The Adventures of Brusanus, Prince of Hungary
     Niccoló Machiavelli, From The Prince
     Hugh Latimer, From First Sermon upon the Lord's Prayer
     George Buchanan, From A Dialogue Concerning the Due Privilege of
     Government in the Kingdom of Scotland
     Sir Walter Raleigh, From The Prince, or Maxims of State
     Richard Martin, From A Speech Delivered to the King's Most Excellent
Majesty, 
     in the Name of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex
     Ben Jonson, Epigram 35. To King  James
     Thomas Middleton, From The Phoenix 
2.  Marriage, Sex, and
Society                                                                                            
          
Marriage á la Mode
Understanding Isabella
Chastity and Eloquence
Mariana and the Play's Resolution of Women's Rights
     T.E., From The Law's Resolution of Women's Rights
     William Perkins, From Christian Economy
     Henry Swinburne, From A Treatise of Spousals
     Church of England, Of Matrimony
     A Selection of Court Cases Concerned with Sex
     Richard Day, From A Book of Christian Prayers
     Juan Luis Vives, From Instruction of a Christian Woman
     St. Augustine, From The Lord's Sermon on the Mount
     G. B. Geraldi Cinthio, From The Story of Epitia
     Christine de Pisan, From The Book of the City of Ladies
     Tarrant House Convent, From The Nun's Rule
     Francis Dupuis, From The Life and Legend of the Lady Saint Clare
3.   The
Underworld                                                                                                              
          
Social and Moral Geography
Prostitution, Pox, and Plague
     John Stow, From The Survey of London
     Thomas Dekker, From Lantern and Candlelight
     Ben Jonson, From Epigrams
     King James I, Proclamation against Inmates
     Thomas Harman, From A Caveat for Common Cursitors
     Philip Stubbes, From Anatomy of Abuses
     Richard Lovelace, The Fair Beggar
     John Marston, From The Dutch Courtesan
     From Trial of a Procurer
     William Fennor, From The Counter's Commonwealth
     The Prisoner's Petition
     James Gryffon, The Song of a Constable
4. Geography and
Religion                                                                                                  
          
Puritanism
     From the Geneva Bible
     Fynes Moryson, From An Itinerary
     The Catholics' Supplication
     Christopher Muriell, From An Answer unto the Catholics' Supplication
     From News from Rome, Venice, and Vienna
     Gábor Bethlen, Letter to the King of Bohemia
     Letter from Vienna
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX