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Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist

By William , Shakespeare , William; Shakespeare , William; Erne , Lukas; Shakespeare

Book information

Publisher
New York ; Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
1107029651, 978-1-107-02965-1, 978-1-107-68506-2, 1107685060
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8659888 bytes)
Edition
Second edition
Pages
313\328
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Now in a new edition, Lukas Erne's groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced reading texts for the page. Examining the evidence from early published playbooks, Erne argues that Shakespeare wrote many of his plays with a readership in mind and that these "literary" texts would have been abridged for the stage because they were too long for performance. The variant early texts of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Hamlet are shown to reveal important insights into the different media for which Shakespeare designed his plays. This revised and updated edition includes a new and substantial preface that reviews and intervenes in the controversy the study has triggered and lists reviews, articles, and books which respond to or build on the first edition

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