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Shakespeare: The Basics
 
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ISBN13:9781032449791
ISBN10:1032449799
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:282 pages
Size:198x129 mm
Weight:521 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 10 Illustrations, black & white; 9 Halftones, black & white; 1 Line drawings, black & white; 3 Tables, black & white
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Shakespeare: The Basics

 
Series: The Basics;
Edition number: 4
Publisher: Routledge
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Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare?s plays, Sean McEvoy considers the language, cultural contexts, and modern interpretations.

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Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare?s plays, Sean McEvoy considers the language, cultural contexts and modern interpretations.


This essential guide to a range of contemporary Shakespearean criticism explores and unpacks the different dramatic genres in which he wrote ? comedy, history, tragedy and romance. It also provides a wealth of relevant and concise information on the historical, social and political contexts in which the plays were produced and have been understood. Extensively updated throughout, the fourth edition provides:



  • A comprehensive account of Shakespearean tragedy for students

  • An introduction to ecocritical, ethical and queer readings of the plays

  • Analysis of notable recent Shakespeare films and productions

  • Enhanced contextual material on race and empire, gender roles and the theatre in politics

With fully updated further reading throughout and a wide range of case studies and examples, Shakespeare: The Basics is an indispensable introduction for college and university students of literature and theatre, but also for anyone with an interest in the world?s most influential dramatist.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


 


Introduction: William Shakespeare 1564-2024


Shakespeare?s Life: An Outline


Shakespeare?s Afterlife


Shakespeare Goes to College


Shakespeare 2025


How to Use this Book


 



PART I



Chapter 1. Shakespeare?s Language


Writing for a Theatre Audience


Box 1.1: Shakespeare?s Audiences


Simple or Complex, the Language is Dramatic


Verse and Prose


Box 1.2: Playtexts in Shakespeare?s Time


Rhetorical Figures and Tropes


Box 1.3: Some Rhetorical Figures and Tropes


Rhetoric and Dramatic Action


Box 1.4: Social Hierarchy in Shakespeare?s England


 


Chapter 2. Shakespeare?s Theatre


The Open Air Playhouse


Indoor Playhouses


Acting Style


Box 2.1: Males Playing Women


Representation on the Early Modern Stage


Box 2.2: Theatre?s Enemies


Dramatic Forms and Metatheatre


 



Chapter 3. Shakespeare on the Modern Stage


Paul Robeson?s 1930 Othello


Othello at the National Theatre (2022)


Box 3.1: Shakespeare, Race and Empire


Cheek by Jowl?s 1991 As You Like It


A Midsummer Night?s Dream at the Bridge Theatre (2019)


 


Chapter 4. The Shakespeare Film


Filming Shakespeare


Tragedy on Screen in 2018 and 2021: King Lear and The Tragedy of Macbeth


Globalized American Shakespeare at the Millennium: Ten Things I Hate About You (1999) and O (2001)


 


PART II


Chapter 5. Comedy: The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It and Twelfth Night  


Men, Women and Marriage in The Taming of the Shrew


Box 5.1: Women and Marriage in Shakespeare?s England


Language and Power in Measure for Measure


Language and the Outsider in The Merchant of Venice


Humans and Nature in As You Like It


Ambiguity, Language and Desire in Twelfth Night


 


Chapter 6. The History Plays: Richard II, Henry IV (Part 1) and Henry V


Feudalism in Historical Perspective: Richard II


Box 6.1: Christianity in Shakespeare?s England


Language, Meaning and Historical Change in Richard II


Power and Performance in Henry V and Henry IV, Part 1


Box 6.2: Shakespeare?s Theatre and Political Freedom of Expression


The Subversive Subplot: Henry V and Henry IV, Part 1


Women and Masculinity in the History Plays


 


Chapter 7. Tragedy: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet


Tragedy and Historical Conflict


Box 7.1: London


Hamlet and Tragic Division


Tragic Kingship in Macbeth


Past, Present and Future in Othello


Unmasking Power in King Lear


Tragedy and Love in Romeo and Juliet


 


Chapter 8. The Romance Plays: The Winter?s Tale and The Tempest


Female Authority in The Winter?s Tale


Contesting the Female: Miranda in The Tempest


Wonder and Artifice in The Tempest and The Winter?s Tale


Freedom in The Tempest


Romance and Time


 


Chronology


Glossary


Index