Measure for Measure : With New Dramatic Criticism and an Updated Bibliography

Shakespeare, William; Nagarajan, S. (editor)

ISBN 10: 0451522591 / ISBN 13: 9780451522597

Published by Signet / New American Library, New York / Scarborough, ON, 1988

About this Item

Creae to the spine and front hinge, light shelf wear. Text is clean. 253 pages. Signet 451-CE2295. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 023380

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Measure for Measure : With New Dramatic Criticism and an Updated Bibliography
• Publisher: Signet / New American Library, New York / Scarborough, ON
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451522591
• ISBN 13: 9780451522597
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favorite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme the play is seen as a religious allegory, at the other it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege. Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching the play, the intensity and excitement offered by its dramatic rhythm, the reversals and surprises that shock the audience even to the end. The introduction describes the play's critical reception and stage history and how these have varied according to prevailing social, moral and religious issues, which were highly sensitive when

Book Description

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.