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Item Details
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THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III
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| By: |
William Shakespeare, John Jowett (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£200.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198182457 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198182450 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
14 December, 2000 |
| Series: |
The Oxford Shakespeare |
| Pages: |
428 |
| Description: |
This innovative edition of Richard III emphasizes the play as a theatre work, and this understanding informs every aspect of the editing. The choice of the 1597 quarto text brings us close to the play as it would have been performed in Shakespeare's theatre. The play's long performance history is described and illustrated in an introduction that is also responsive to recent historicist and gender-based critical approaches. The commentary gives full andbalanced treatment to matters of language, performance, text, and historical and cultural contexts. |
| Synopsis: |
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the text is based on the 1597 Quarto which, it is argued, brings us closest to the play as it would have been staged in Shakespeare's theatre. The introduction, which is illustrated, explores the long performance history from Shakespeare's time to the present. Its critical engagement with the play responds to recent historicist and gender-based approaches. The commentary gives detailed explication of matters of language, staging, text, and historical and cultural contexts, providing coverage that is both carefully balanced and alert to nuance of meaning. Documentation of the extensive textual variants is organized for maximum clarity: the readings of the Folio and the Quarto are presented in separate banks, and more specialist information is given at the back of the book. Appendices also include selected passages from the main source and a special index of actors and other theatrical personnel. |
| Illustrations: |
numerous halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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