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Why Shakespeare?
ISBN/EAN: 9781403993199
Umbreit-Nr.: 2057504
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 208 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 20.04.2007
Auflage: 1/2007
- Zusatztext
- Why is Shakespeare as highly regarded now as he ever has been? This book's answer to this question counters claims that Shakespeare's iconic status is no more than an accident of history. The plays, Belsey argues, entice us into a world we recognize by retelling traditional fairy tales with a difference, each chapter providing a detailed reading.
- Kurztext
- This exciting new introduction to Shakespeare provides students and general readers with a new approach to reading the plays Belsey provides a completely new way into the plays via traditional fairy tales, making an important contribution to Shakespeare scholarship
- Autorenportrait
- CATHERINE BELSEY is Research Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK. Her books include Critical Practice, The Subject of Tragedy and Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden.