Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist:

Now in a new edition, Lukas Erne's groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced reading texts for the page. Examining the evidence from early published playbooks, Erne argues that...

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Main Author: Erne, Lukas 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
Edition:Second edition
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342445
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342445
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342445
Summary:Now in a new edition, Lukas Erne's groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced reading texts for the page. Examining the evidence from early published playbooks, Erne argues that Shakespeare wrote many of his plays with a readership in mind and that these 'literary' texts would have been abridged for the stage because they were too long for performance. The variant early texts of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Hamlet are shown to reveal important insights into the different media for which Shakespeare designed his plays. This revised and updated edition includes a new and substantial preface that reviews and intervenes in the controversy the study has triggered and lists reviews, articles and books which respond to or build on the first edition
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 313 pages)
ISBN:9781139342445
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139342445

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