| William Shakespeare: Richard II: Essays, Articles, Reviews Contributor(s): Coyle, Martin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231115377 ISBN-13: 9780231115377 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $25.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1999 Annotation: At last available in a single volume: comprehensive overviews and concise analyses of the key critical texts and approaches to the most-studied works of literature. By assembling extracts from essays, reviews, and articles, the columbia critical guides provide students with ready access to the most important secondary writings on a single text or pair of texts by a given writer. each volume: -- Offers a balanced and nuanced approach to criticism, drawing on a wide array of British and American sources -- Explains criticism in terms of key approaches, allowing students the grasp the central issues for each work -- Is edited by a noted scholar who specializes in the writer or work in question -- Includes a complete bibliography, notes, and index. This guide steers a clear path through the huge body of critical material on richard II that has accrued over the past three centuries, elucidating the play's reception by audiences, critics, and scholars since its first production. With a critical horizon ranging from early commentaries to modern-day critics, the book presents and addresses the most significant critical arguments to depict the ways in which each generation invests richard II with new meaning. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Study Aids | Book Notes - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 98-39520 |
| Series: Columbia Critical Guides |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.26" W x 7.81" (0.46 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This Columbia Critical Guide steers a clear path through the huge body of critical material on Richard II that has accrued over the past three centuries, elucidating the play's reception by audiences, critics, and scholars since its first production. Beginning with a discussion of early commentaries, the book presents and addresses the most significant critical arguments to give the reader a clear understanding of the ways in which each generation has sought to invest Richard II with new meaning. The final section considers the radical new reading of Shakespeare's work provided by contemporary critics. |