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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wells, Stanley, 1930- author.     Subjects     Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wells, Stanley, 1930- author.       by title:      Shakespeare on page ...         MARC Display

Shakespeare on page & stage : selected essays / Stanley Wells ; edited by Paul Edmondson. by Wells, Stanley, 1930- author. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016. Subjects Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation. ISBN:  9780198786542 (hardcover) : Description:  vii, 486 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction / Peter Holland -- I. Shakespearean influences. -- 1. Shakespeare : man of the European Renaissance -- 2. Tales from Shakespeare -- II. Essays on particular works. -- 3. The failure of The two gentlemen of Verona -- 4. The taming of the shrew and King Lear : a structural comparison -- 5. The integration of violent action in Titus Andronicus -- 6. The challenges of Romeo and Juliet -- 7. Juliet's nurse : the uses of inconsequentiality -- 8. The lamentable tale of Richard II -- 9. A midsummer night's dream revisited -- 10. Translations in A midsummer night's dream -- 11. The once and future King Lear -- 12. Problems of stagecraft in The tempest -- 13. 'My name is Will' : Shakespeare's sonnets and autobiography -- 14. Shakespeare without sources -- 15. Shakespeare and romance -- III. Shakespeare in the theatre. -- 16. Boys should be girls : Shakespeare's female roles and the boy players -- 17. Staging Shakespeare's ghosts -- 18. Staging Shakespeare's apparitions and dream visions -- 19. Shakespeare in Planché's extravaganzas -- 20. Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm's theatre criticism -- 21. Shakespeare in Leigh Hunt's theatre criticism -- Shakespeare in Hazlitt's theatre criticism -- Peter Hall's Coriolanus, 1959 -- IV. Shakespeare's text. -- 24. On being a general editor -- 25. Editiorial treatment of foul-paper texts : Much ado about nothing as test case -- 26. Money in Shakespeare's comedies -- 27. To read a play : the problem of editorial intervention -- 28. The First Folio : where should we be without it? -- 29. The limitations of the First Folio -- Afterword / Margreta de Grazia. Requests:  0 Summary:  "This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare, and over his lifetime he has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland, and its thirty chapters are divided into themed sections: 'Shakespearian Influences', 'Essays on Particular Works', 'Shakespeare in the Theatre', and 'Shakespeare's Text'. An afterword by Margreta de Grazia concludes the volume" -- Provided by publisher's website.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 822.33 D We Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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