York Notes Companions: Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (June 14, 2010) © 2010

  • Hugh Mackay

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ISBN-13: 9781408204801
York Notes Companions: Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
Published 2010
The York Notes Companion to Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama brings widely studied plays such as Hamlet, Othello and Dr Faustus to life for students, by considering them from the perspective of contemporary theatre-goers. Placing Shakespeare’s masterpieces in the social and historical contexts of the period and examining them alongside the work of his lesser known contemporaries, the Companion provides detailed commentaries on a range of plays, and guides students through key literary theories and debates. Connecting texts with their scholarly and historical contexts, this is essential reading for any student of Renaissance drama.
  • Part One: Introduction
  • Part Two: A Cultural Overview
  • Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts
  • Shakespeare’s comedies of eros: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It
  • Extended commentary: Twelfth Night
  • Chronicles of virtue – Shakespeare’s history plays: Richard III and Henry IV Part 1
  • Extended commentary: Henry V
  • Tyranny and terror – Tragedy on the English Stage: Dr Faustus, Othello and Macbeth
  • Extended commentary: Hamlet
  • Shakespearean tragicomedy: Philaster and All’s Well that Ends Well
  • Extended commentary: The Tempest
  • Comedies of Humour, Comedies of Pain: Every Man in his Humour and The Fawn
  • Extended commentary: Volpone
  • Jacobean Revenge drama: Revenger’s Tragedy and Women Beware Women
  • Extended commentary: The Duchess of Malfi
  • Part Four:  Critical theories and Debates
  • Madness and Subjectivity
  • Rhetoric and Performance
  • Women at the Edge
  • Nation-building
  • Part Five: Resources
  • Timeline
  • Further reading
  • Index

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