Measure for Measure Paperback / softback
by William Shakespeare
Edited by Brian Gibbons
Part of the The New Cambridge Shakespeare series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 Measure for Measure Angela Stock has written a new introductory section that takes account of recent scholarly criticism and important contemporary productions on stage and film.
The edition retains the text prepared by Brian Gibbons together with his comprehensive introduction, in which he shows how the play's critical reception and stage history varies from one period to the next according to the prevailing social, moral and religious issues of the day.
Gibbons explores the thrilling experience of watching the play in performance, with its shocking reversals and surprises, great tragic poetry and exuberant comic prose.
An updated reading list completes the edition.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:234 pages, 15 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/07/2006
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- ISBN:9780521670784
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Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:234 pages, 15 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/07/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521670784
