Classic and pre-20th century plays

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from the early texts - wide-ranging introduction discusses the play's historical contexts, political significance, characters, sources, and language - detailed stage history designed to meet the needs of students and theatre professionals - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, allusions, staging, and much else - illustrated with production photographs, historical portraits, textual facsimiles, and map - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare' Times Literary Supplement ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.

The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: "e;What is it that we read Shakespeare?

A fully illustrated study of Shakespeare''s awareness of traditions in visual art and their presence in his plays and poems.

Shakespeare's poetic-dramatic worlds are inescapably limited.

Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive.

A fascinating insight into court entertainment - encompassing dance, music and performance - in the age of Shakespeare.

This volume in the Shakespeare Criticism series offers a range of approaches to Twelfth Night, including its critical reception, performance history, and relation to early modern culture.

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A second edition of Coriolanus featuring a new introductory section by Bridget Escolme.

Shakespeare was fascinated by power throughout his career but also understood its dangers and limits.

This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage and positions it as part of an ongoing cultural, ethical, and psychological debate about the effects of performance on actors and on spectators.

Thinking Shakespeare gives theater artists practical advice about how to make Shakespeare's words feel spontaneous, passionate, and real.

Language is the central concern of this book.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage.

Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A.

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Euripides' Phoenissae bears one of the richest tragic plots: multiple narrative levels are interwoven by means of various anachronies, focalizers offer different and often challenging points of view, while a complex mythical matrix is deftly employed as the backdrop against which the exploration of the mechanics of tragic narrative takes place.

This collection of essays makes an important contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven into popular entertainment on the early modern stage.

▪ Goethe und seine ZeitDie Leiden des jungen WertherWilhelm Meisters LehrjahreDer Briefwechsel zwischen Schiller und GoetheSchillers Theorie der modernen LiteraturHölderlins Hyperion▪ Faust-StudienZur EntstehungsgeschichteDas Drama der MenschengattungFaust und MephistophelesDie Gretchen-TragödieStilfragen: Das Ende der ‹Kunstperiode›▪ Thomas MannAuf der Suche nach dem BürgerDie Tragödie der modernen KunstDas Spielerische und seine Hintergründe▪ Enzyklopädisches Stichwort: Bemerkungen über den bürgerlichen Realismus hinaus▪ Quellennachweis▪ Personen- und Sachregister▪ Verzeichnis der erwähnten Werke

Can reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare contribute to the health of the planet?

It is widely acknowledged that the hit franchise Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, a bloody fifteenth-century civil war between feuding English families.

For more than four centuries, cultural preferences, literary values, critical contexts, and personal tastes have governed readers' responses to Shakespeare's sonnets.

The work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has often been the testing-ground for innovations in literary studies, but this has not been true of ecocriticism.

South African Essays on 'Universal' Shakespeare collects new scholarship and extant (but previously unpublished) material, reflecting the changing nature of Shakespeare studies across various 'generation gaps'.

Dostoevsky uses Hamlet to address some of the most important problems in Russian culture in the second half of the 19th century.

The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them.

The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Taking a comprehensive, critical, and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in educational policy and pedagogy from 1989 (the year compulsory Shakespeare was introduced under the National Curriculum for English in the United Kingdom), to the present, Shakespeare Valued explores the esteem afforded Shakespeare in the British educational system and its evolution in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

Consent in Shakespeare's Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified, gender-fluid, and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare's classical Mediterranean plays.

The use of Italian culture in the Jacobean theatre was never an isolated gesture.

Originally published in 1988.

This edition shows Shakespeare''s Pericles to be a unified aesthetic experience.

Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship.

An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England.

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A highly readable edition of Love''s Labour Lost edited and introduced by William C.

This is the first collection of critical essays devoted exclusively to Shakespeare's first published work, his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis which established his reputation as the literary darling of London and the heir of Ovid.

Few only are the remarks absolutely needed by way of introduction to a work which within itself sufficiently explains and carries out a new method of illustration for the dramas of Shakespeare.

Originally published in 1989, this book focuses on the handling of the relationship between the onstage world and the offstage world, between the world that Shakespeare shows us and the one he tells us about.

This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature.

Language is the central concern of this book.

Originally published in 1991.

"e;The text of any Shakespeare play is a living negotiable entity: scholarship and theatre practice work together to keep the plays alive and vividly present.

This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language.

For Romeo and Juliet, it's love at first sight.

"e;Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion"e; examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture's oversaturation with this most canonical of texts.

Described as one of Shakespeare's most intriguing plays, All's Well That Ends Well has only recently begun to receive the critical attention it deserves.

In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna.