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Shakespeare´s Storms
Gwilym Jones
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Description for Shakespeare´s Storms
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 388.
Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book Award
Whether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, the shipwrecks of the comedies or the thunderbolt of Pericles, there is an instance of storm in every one of Shakespeare's plays. This is the first comprehensive study of Shakespeare's storms.
With chapters on Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Pericles and The Tempest, the book traces the development of the storm over the second half of the playwright's career, when Shakespeare took the storm to new extremes. It explains the storm effects used in early ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719089381
SKU
V9780719089381
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Gwilym Jones
Gwilym Jones is Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster -- .
Reviews for Shakespeare´s Storms
‘Jones is evocative in his attempts to imagine the volume and spectacle of these events in a quieter world, one “without traffic and aircraft noises or cinema or volume controls” in which a natural storm might have been “a touchstone of loudness.”’ Elizabeth Scott-Baumann TLS, March 2016 ‘Gwilym Jones’s Shakespeare’s Storms offers an engaging and informative discussion of storms ... Read more