Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist /
"In this groundbreaking study, Lukas Erne 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. The usual distinction that has been set up between Ben Jonson carefully preparing his...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
New York ;
2013.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "In this groundbreaking study, Lukas Erne 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. The usual distinction that has been set up between Ben Jonson carefully preparing his manuscripts for publication, and Shakespeare the man of the theatre, writing for his actors and audience, indifferent to his plays as literature, is questioned in this book. 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."--Jacket |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781107348202 110734820X 9781107341951 1107341957 9781139342445 1139342444 1107345707 9781107345706 1107349206 9781107349209 |