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Sir Thomas More: Third Series (Arden Shakespeare)

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Description for Sir Thomas More: Third Series (Arden Shakespeare) Paperback. Sir Thomas More deals with matters so controversial that it may never have reached performance on stage. A compelling play of riots and religious politics, it is also an intriguing document of what could, and could not, be articulated in the early modern public theatre. Editor(s): Jowett, John. Series: Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 544 pages, 15 in Introduction. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.

This edition of Sir Thomas More is the first to bring the play into the context of a major Shakespeare series, to provide a substantial critical analysis, and to offer a comprehensive modern stage history. The introduction deals with issues such as the strange involvement of the anti-Catholic spy-hunter Anthony Munday as chief dramatist, the place of Sir Thomas More as a Catholic martyr in Protestant late Elizabethan culture, and the play's representation of a multi-cultural London.The text itself, supported by a searching and detailed commentary, adopts a distinctive presentation that enables readers to keep track of the manuscript and ... Read more



Sir Thomas More deals with matters so controversial that it may never have reached performance on stage. The authors' determination to deal with rioting and religious politics led to a play that is compelling in its own right but also intriguing as a document of what could, and could not, be articulated in the early modern public theatre. Surviving only as a manuscript text on which Shakespeare was thought to have worked, it can be considered to be the most important play manuscript of the period, owing to its highly complex witness to collaboration between dramatists and to censorship.

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Product Details

Publisher
Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Arden Shakespeare
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904271482
SKU
V9781904271482
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About William Shakespeare
Professor John Jowett is Chair of Shakespeare Studies at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is a Series Editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama series and an Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works.

Reviews for Sir Thomas More: Third Series (Arden Shakespeare)
John Jowett’s edition of More is one of the triumphs of the [Third Series] as a whole, elucidating a nightmarishly complex textual history with exemplary clarity.
The New Criterion
‘...Jowett, one of the most gifted and exciting textual scholars around, whose Oxford edition of Richard III belongs right up there in the pantheon of truly great Shakespeare editions, ... Read more

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