King Richard III

Produktdetails

Verlag

Cambridge University Press

Erschienen

2018

Sprache

English

Seiten

254

Infos

254 Seiten
229 mm x 152 mm

ISBN

978-0-521-73556-8

Inhaltsverzeichnis

From the contents: List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction
1. The play and its date
2. The coercive chorus
3. Context and sources
4. Structure and language
5. Staging and stage history; A note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendices; Reading list

Kurztext / Annotation

The second edition of King Richard III, with a new introductory section by Janis Lull.

Langtext

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of King Richard III, Janis Lull has added a new section to her introduction, in which she focuses on contemporary productions of the play as well as recent scholarly criticism. Lull emphasises the importance of women's roles in this popular drama but shows how the text has frequently been cut, rewritten and reshaped by directors and actors to enhance the role of Richard, often at the expense of female characters. The special relationship between King Richard III and Macbeth is also explored while the notes detail the play's language in terms that are easily accessible to contemporary readers.

Über den AutorIn

Shakespeare, William Janis Lull is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.