Shakespeare's Problem Plays (eBook, PDF)

All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida
Redaktion: Barker, Simon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This New Casebook offers a selection of contemporary readings of Shakespeare's 'Problem Plays', All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida, reflecting the diversity of late twentieth-century theory and the controversy that continues to be generated by these plays. Issues discussed include the meaning of the term 'Problem Play', the historical context and political and cultural significance of the plays, and issues of staging and theatre history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137208903
• Artikelnr.: 62860718

Autorenporträt

SIMON BARKER is Principal Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; S.Barker.- Shakespeare's Problem Plays: Concepts and Perspectives; V.Thomas.- All's Well That Ends Well and the Tale of the Chivalric Quest; L.Scragg.- The Political Effects of Gender and Class in All's Well That Ends Well; P.Erickson.- Subjectivity, Desire and Female Friendship in All's Well That Ends Well; C.Asp.- Transgression and Surveillance in Measure for Measure; J.Dollimore.- London in Measure for Measure; L.S.Marcus.- Love's Tyranny Inside-Out in the Problem Plays: Yours, Mine and Counter-Mine; R.Hillman.- 'Tricks we Play on the Dead': Making History in Troilus and Cressida; H.James.- Invading Bodies.- Bawdy Exchanges: Disease, Desire, and Representation; V.Traub.- Fragments of Nationalism in Troilus and Cressida; M.Greenfield.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.