Shakespeare's political drama: The history plays and the Roman plays

Shakespeare is consistently interested in rulers, law, questions of authority and obedience. In this study, Alexander Leggatt examines the depiction of state and public power in the English and Roman histories.

Shakespeare's Political Drama: The History Plays and the Roman Plays

Leggatt, Alexander

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Jacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. It relates this drama to the popular culutre of the day and concludes with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear, which emerge in an unexpected light as the products of popular tradition.

Jacobean Public Theatre (Theatre Production Studies)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

First published in 1987. This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each play is a new combination of essentially similar ingredients, so that, for example, the boy/girl changes in The Merchant of Venice are seen to have a quite different significance from those in As You Like It.

Shakespeare's Comedy of Love

History & Criticism

First published in 1987. This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each play is a new combination of essentially similar ingredients, so that, for example, the boy/girl changes in The Merchant of Venice are seen to have a quite different significance from those in As You Like It.

Shakespeare's Comedy of Love (Routledge Library Editions. Shakespeare. Comedies)

Ben Jonson: His Vision and His Art

Olympic Marketing Corp

Shakespeare's comedy of love

METHUEN

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

Cambridge University Press

Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity

Beginning with the rape of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus, this book traces the linked themes of violation and identity through seven Shakespearean tragedies. The shock effects of Lavinia's rape reverberate throughout Shakespeare's later tragedies. This detailed study of Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth reveals the way acts of violence evoke questions about the identities of the victims, perpetrators, and the acts themselves. Written in a clear, accessible style, it highlights the humanistic aspects of Shakespearean tragedy.

British & Irish

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