Measure for Measure: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life (Shakespeare Handbooks)

Hampton-Reeves, Stuart

ISBN 10: 1403944172 / ISBN 13: 9781403944177

Published by Palgrave, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Measure for Measure: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life (Shakespeare Handbooks)
• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403944172
• ISBN 13: 9781403944177
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

Measure for Measure generates much debate and is strikingly modern. This introductory guide offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performance, studies of influential performances, a survey of film and TV adaptation, a wide sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading.

About the Author

STUART HAMPTON-REEVES is Course Leader for English and Theatre Studies and Subject Leader for Drama at University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is a founder member and on the executive of the British Shakespeare Association. He is author of Shakespeare in Performance: The Henry VI Plays (MUP 2004).
STUART HAMPTON-REEVES is Course Leader for English and Theatre Studies and Subject Leader for Drama at University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is a founder member and on the executive of the British Shakespeare Association. He is author of Shakespeare in Performance: The Henry VI Plays (MUP 2004).