Screen LibraryShakespeare for students : critical interpretations of Shakespeare's plays and poetry /
Shakespeare for Students is an attractive and accessible 3-vol. set of essential criticism to the playwright's most-popularly-studied plays and poetry in secondary schools and undergraduate curricula. The second edition contains updated entries and 4 brand new entries. You'll find a divers...
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Thomson Gale,
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| Publisher Address: | Detroit : |
| Publication Dates: | [2007] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Summary: |
Shakespeare for Students is an attractive and accessible 3-vol. set of essential criticism to the playwright's most-popularly-studied plays and poetry in secondary schools and undergraduate curricula. The second edition contains updated entries and 4 brand new entries. You'll find a diverse blend of criticism along with plot summaries and character profiles that help further decode these dramatic masterpieces for students. Each detailed, illustrated entry provides: An introduction that provides an overview of the play or poem; A plot summary; An annotated character list; A discussion of the play's principal theme; Understandable essays on the plays construction (setting, dialogue, imagery); Historical and cultural context sections that illuminate the play's role in inter-curricular studies; Excerpted critical commentary on various facets of the play; Extensive theme and character index; and much more. - Publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | 3 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781414412559 141441255X 9781414412566 1414412568 9781414412580 1414412584 9781414412597 1414412592 |
| Index Number: | PR2987 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Call Number: | I561.073/S527-71/2nd ed. |
| Contents: | v. 1. All's well that ends well ; Antony and Cleopatra ; As you like it ; The comedy of errors ; Coriolanus ; Hamlet ; Henry IV, part one ; Henry V ; Henry VI, part three -- v. 2. Julius Caesar ; King Lear ; Lucrece ; Macbeth ; Measure for measure ; The merchant of Venice ; The merry wives of Windsor ; A midsummer night's dream ; Much ado about nothing ; Othello -- v. 3. Richard II ; Richard III ; Romeo and Juliet ; The sonnets ; The taming of the shrew ; The tempest ; Twelfth night ; Venus and Adonis ; The winter's tale. |