Who Was William Shakespeare

Dympna Callaghan 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2012년 10월 18일 출간

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A new study of Shakespeare's life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works.Combines an accessible fully historicised treatment of both the life and the plays, suited to both undergraduate and popular audiencesLooks at 24 of the most significant plays and the sonnets through the lens of various aspects of Shakespeare's life and historical environmentAddresses four of the most significant issues that shaped Shakespeare's career: education, religion, social status, and theatreExamines theatre as an institution and the literary environment of early modern LondonExplains and dispatches conspiracy theories about authorship

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Note on the Text ixAcknowledgments xiPart I The Life 11 Who was William Shakespeare? 32 Writing 233 Religion 474 Status 615 Theatre 79Part II The Plays 976 Comedies: Shakespeare&'s Social Life 99The Comedy of Errors 99The Taming of the Shrew 108Love&'s Labour&'s Lost 119A Midsummer Night&'s Dream 125The Merchant of Venice 132Much Ado About Nothing 138As You Like It 146Twelfth Night, Or What You Will 153Measure for Measure 1597 English and Roman Histories: Shakespeare&'s Politics 177Richard II 1771 Henry IV 182Henry V 192Richard III 198Julius Caesar 204Coriolanus 2108 Tragedies: Shakespeare in Love and Loss 223Romeo and Juliet 223Hamlet 232Othello 241King Lear 252Macbeth 260Antony and Cleopatra 2669 Romances: Shakespeare and Theatrical Magic 277The Winter&'s Tale 277The Tempest 284Index 295

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Featured in Times Literary Supplement - 25 October 2013"Dympna Callaghan's lucid and well-structured textbook allows students to see the plays in their context." (Times Literary Supplement, 25 October 2013)"The book should interest readers who are curious about Shakespeare's life and the social and political history of England. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." (Choice, &1 August 2013)&

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Dympna Callaghan is William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters at Syracuse University and President of the Shakespeare Association of America, 2012n-13. She is the editor of the Arden Shakespeare Language and Writing Series and coeditor, with Michael Dobson, of the Palgrave Shakespeare Studies series. Her publications include Shakespeare Without Women (2000), The Taming of the Shrew: A Norton Critical Edition (2009), Shakespeare's Sonnets (2007), The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Culture (2006), and Romeo and Juliet: Texts and Contexts (2003).