Measure For Measure - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

 
9780451522597: Measure For Measure
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0451522591 ISBN 13: 9780451522597
Verlag: Penguin, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favorite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme the play is seen as a religious allegory, at the other it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege. Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching the play, the intensity and excitement offered by its dramatic rhythm, the reversals and surprises that shock the audience even to the end. The introduction describes the play's critical reception and stage history and how these have varied according to prevailing social, moral and religious issues, which were highly sensitive when

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0451522591
ISBN 13 
9780451522597
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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