Shakespeare : the poet and his plays / edited by Stanley Wells

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Methuen Publishing Limited, c2001.Description: xii, 411 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780413767108
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR 2976 .W45 2001
Contents:
1. Who is Shakespeare? -- 2. Shakespeare: Man of the Theatre -- 3. Comedies of Verona, Padua, Ephesus, France, and Athens -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- The Taming of the Shrew -- The Comedy of Errors -- Love's Labour's Lost -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 4. Tragedies of Rome and Verona -- Titus Andronicus -- Romeo and Juliet -- 5. Five Plays of English History -- Henry the Sixth, Part One -- The First Part of the Contention (Henry the Sixth, Part Two) -- Richard, Duke of York (Henry the Sixth, Part Three) -- Richard the Third -- King John -- 6. A Poetic Interlude -- Venus and Adonis -- The Rape of Lucrece -- Shorter Poems -- the Sonnets -- 'A Lover's Complaint' -- 7. Four More Plays of English History -- King Richard the Second -- King Henry the Fourth, Part One -- King Henry the Fourth, Part Two -- King Henry the Fifth -- 8. Comedies of Venice, Messina, France, Illyria, and Windsor -- The Merchant of Venice -- Much Ado About Nothing -- As You Like It -- Twelfth Night -- The Merry Wives of Windsor -- 9. Tragedies of Rome and Elsinore -- Julius Caesar -- Hamlet -- 10. Play of Troy, Vienna, and Roussillon -- Troilus and Cressida -- Measure for Measure -- All's Well that Ends Well -- 11. A Venetian Tragedy -- Othello -- 12. Tragedies of Ancient Britain and of Athens -- King Lear -- Timon of Athens -- 13. A Scottish Tragedy -- Macbeth -- 14. Tragedies of Ancient Egypt and Rome -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Coriolanus -- 15. Romantic Plays, Mainly of the Mediterranean -- Pericles -- The Winter's Tale -- Cymbeline -- The Tempest -- 16. A Lost Play Based on Don Quixote, One Last English History, and a Tragicomedy of Ancient Athens -- Cardenio -- Henry the Eighth, or All is True -- The Two Noble Kinsmen -- 17. Sir Thomas More, A Funeral Elegy, and Other Works Ascribed to Shakespeare.
Summary: Why do Shakespeare's works continue to exert so strong an influence and have such lasting appeal? What do they have to offer modern readers and play-goers? The author seeks to answer these questions in this wide-ranging critical survey of Shakespeare's career as a poet and playwright. The result of Stanley Wells' lifetime work on Shakespeare's plays and poems, this study aims to offer both a useful introduction to the writer and a companion for those renewing their acquaintance with his work either as readers or theatre-goers.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Who is Shakespeare? -- 2. Shakespeare: Man of the Theatre -- 3. Comedies of Verona, Padua, Ephesus, France, and Athens -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- The Taming of the Shrew -- The Comedy of Errors -- Love's Labour's Lost -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 4. Tragedies of Rome and Verona -- Titus Andronicus -- Romeo and Juliet -- 5. Five Plays of English History -- Henry the Sixth, Part One -- The First Part of the Contention (Henry the Sixth, Part Two) -- Richard, Duke of York (Henry the Sixth, Part Three) -- Richard the Third -- King John -- 6. A Poetic Interlude -- Venus and Adonis -- The Rape of Lucrece -- Shorter Poems -- the Sonnets -- 'A Lover's Complaint' -- 7. Four More Plays of English History -- King Richard the Second -- King Henry the Fourth, Part One -- King Henry the Fourth, Part Two -- King Henry the Fifth -- 8. Comedies of Venice, Messina, France, Illyria, and Windsor -- The Merchant of Venice -- Much Ado About Nothing -- As You Like It -- Twelfth Night -- The Merry Wives of Windsor -- 9. Tragedies of Rome and Elsinore -- Julius Caesar -- Hamlet -- 10. Play of Troy, Vienna, and Roussillon -- Troilus and Cressida -- Measure for Measure -- All's Well that Ends Well -- 11. A Venetian Tragedy -- Othello -- 12. Tragedies of Ancient Britain and of Athens -- King Lear -- Timon of Athens -- 13. A Scottish Tragedy -- Macbeth -- 14. Tragedies of Ancient Egypt and Rome -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Coriolanus -- 15. Romantic Plays, Mainly of the Mediterranean -- Pericles -- The Winter's Tale -- Cymbeline -- The Tempest -- 16. A Lost Play Based on Don Quixote, One Last English History, and a Tragicomedy of Ancient Athens -- Cardenio -- Henry the Eighth, or All is True -- The Two Noble Kinsmen -- 17. Sir Thomas More, A Funeral Elegy, and Other Works Ascribed to Shakespeare.

Why do Shakespeare's works continue to exert so strong an influence and have such lasting appeal? What do they have to offer modern readers and play-goers? The author seeks to answer these questions in this wide-ranging critical survey of Shakespeare's career as a poet and playwright. The result of Stanley Wells' lifetime work on Shakespeare's plays and poems, this study aims to offer both a useful introduction to the writer and a companion for those renewing their acquaintance with his work either as readers or theatre-goers.

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