Working with Shakespeare
Howard Mills
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Description for Working with Shakespeare
Hardback. This book aims to increase the pleasure of studying Shakespeare, working with the plays as the craftsman-dramatist himself worked by concentrating on poetic detail and dramatic moments. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
This book aims to increase the pleasure of studying Shakespeare, working with the plays as the craftsman-dramatist himself worked by concentrating on poetic detail and dramatic moments. The book offers an accessible nuts-and-bolts approach in steadily broadening focus: from the way lines and speeches are put together to such large concerns as genre distinctions and the representation of gender. Eleven plays are introduced in chronological order, nine of them reappearing in later chapters in order to illustrate further topics. Comparisons draw on alternative texts, subsequent adaptations and excerpts on the same subjects from works in other literary genres. ... Read more
This book aims to increase the pleasure of studying Shakespeare, working with the plays as the craftsman-dramatist himself worked by concentrating on poetic detail and dramatic moments. The book offers an accessible nuts-and-bolts approach in steadily broadening focus: from the way lines and speeches are put together to such large concerns as genre distinctions and the representation of gender. Eleven plays are introduced in chronological order, nine of them reappearing in later chapters in order to illustrate further topics. Comparisons draw on alternative texts, subsequent adaptations and excerpts on the same subjects from works in other literary genres. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780389210092
SKU
V9780389210092
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Howard Mills
Howard Mills is Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England.
Reviews for Working with Shakespeare
This book will be found useful by students of Shakespeare who refuse to forego the pleasures of the...texture of the plays in pursuit of the bigger picture; by teachers of Shakespeare interested in strategies for leading their students beyond ideoligical cristicism to an aesthetic experience of the words themselves and by critics who are willing to witness a rebuttal of ... Read more