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A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies Michael Mangan

A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies By Michael Mangan

A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies by Michael Mangan


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A study of four of Shakespeare's major tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth - this Preface at these plays in a variety of contexts, both in isolation and in relation to each other. Michael Mangan also explores the cultural, ideological, social and political contexts in which they were written.

A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies Summary

A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies by Michael Mangan

This book is a study of four of Shakespeare's major tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. It looks at these plays in a variety of contexts - both in isolation and in relation to each other and to the cultural, ideological, social and political contexts which produced them.

A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies Reviews

This book, part of a series intended to provide 'modern and authoritative guidance' to the work of major authors, fulfills that function admirably... [it] should be useful to intelligent readers of any background from general reader to scholar. Choice

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction

Part One: Shakespeare's England
1. Religious and philosophical developments.
2. Government and authority.
3. Elizabethan and Jacobean society
4. `Words, words, words': Shakespeare's English.
5. Plays into print.

Part Two: Shakespeare and the theatre of his time
6. Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy.
7. Shakespeare's theatre
8. Plays and audiences

Part Three: Critical Analysis
9. Hamlet.
10. Othello.
11. King Lear.
12. Macbeth. Postscript: What lies beyond tragedy?

Part Four: Reference Section
Short biographies
Further reading
Appendix: The theatres of Shakespeare's London
Index

Additional information

CIN0582355036G
9780582355033
0582355036
A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies by Michael Mangan
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
19910916
256
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