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Great Shakespeareans Set I
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Description
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Great Shakespeareans will be an essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Claude Rawson (Yale, USA)
John Dryden - Harold Love (Monash, Australia)
Alexander Pope - Simon Jarvis (Cambridge, UK)
Samuel Johnson - Freya Johnston (Warwick, UK)
Edmond Malone - Marcus Walsh (Liverpool, UK)
Volume 2: Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean - Edited by Peter Holland (Notre Dame, USA)
Introduction, Peter Holland (Notre Dame, USA)
David Garrick - Peter Holland (Notre Dame, USA)
John Philip Kemble - Michael Dobson (Birkbeck, UK)
Sarah Siddons - Russ McDonald (Goldsmith's, UK)
Edmund Kean - Peter Thomson (Exeter, UK)
Volume 3: Goethe, Schlegel, Coleridge - Edited by Roger Paulin (Cambridge, UK)
Introduction, Roger Paulin (Cambridge, UK)
Voltaire - Michèle Willems (Rouen, France)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Stephen Fennell (Cambridge, UK)
Friedrich von Schlegel - Christine Roger (Picardie, France)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Reginald Foakes (UCLA, USA)
Volume 4: Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats - Edited by Adrian Poole (Cambridge, UK)
Introduction, Adrian Poole (Cambridge, UK)
Charles Lamb - Felicity James (Oxford, UK)
William Hazlitt - Uttara Natarajan (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)
John Keats - Beth Lau (California State, USA)
Product details

Published | 03 Jun 2010 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 224 |
ISBN | 9781441124036 |
Imprint | The Arden Shakespeare |
Series | Great Shakespeareans |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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The second volume in the Great Shakespeareans series (Volume I), Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean, edited by Peter Holland, provides a lively and authoritative introduction to the careers of its four subjects.
Years Work in English Studies, vol 91, no 1, 2012