The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England Hardback: A Collaborative Debate - Hardcover

Dawson; Yachnin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521800161 ISBN 13: 9780521800167

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

This book discusses the relationship between playgoing and the social and cultural life of Shakespeare's England. The debate structure of the book makes it unique and the authors' lively attacks and counter-attacks, as they contest each other's views in paired chapters, result in a dialectical account.

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Críticas:

'This study of theatre and drama in relation to the culture of Shakespeare's time is intellectually sophisticated, historically informed and engagingly written. Thoroughly up to date in its scholarship and original in its critical approach, it has much to say to students of the period. Its interest lies both in the dialectic of the discrete theoretical approaches of the two authors, and in its practical criticism, sometimes from differing perspectives, of specific plays by both Shakespeare and contemporary dramatists. The most unusual feature of the book ... is the division of authorship from chapter to chapter. This frequently leads to stimulating debate, and especially to a valuable emphasis on the relativity of critical truth, the fact that history looks different when viewed from one perspective rather than another.' Stanley Wells

Biografía del autor:

Anthony B. Dawson is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521800161
• ISBN 13: 9780521800167
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 225