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ON SHAKESPEARE
by BRADBROOK, MURIEL
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good copy.
- ISBN 10
- 0710806795
- ISBN 13
- 9780710806796
- Seller
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Lucca, Italy
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About This Item
Sussex / New Jersey: The Harvester Press / Barnes & Noble Books, 1984. Photoset in Linotron Sabon. Cover design by Craig Dodd. Muriel Bradbrook brings to her readings of the plays and poems the benefits of a half-century's study of Shakespeare and his background. Her works has a quality of perception, a feeling for Shakespeare's verse and a knowledge of his texts, which are quite unrivalled. Contents: 1). Shakespeare's primitive art. 2). Shakespeare and the use of disguise in Elizabethan drama. 3). Shakespeare's debt to Marlowe. 4). Beasts and gods: the social purpose of 'Venus and Adonis. 5). Dramatic role as social image: a study of 'The taming of the shrew'. 6). 'King Henry IV'. 7). Shakespeare's hybrid: 'All's well that ends well'. 8). What Shakespeare did to Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'. 9). An interpretation of 'Hamlet'. 10). The balance and the sword in 'Measure for measure'. 11). 'Othello', Webster and the tragedy of violence. 12). The origins of 'Macbeth'. With introduction and retrospective view. VIII + 166 + (1) pag.. 1st edition. Sewed / Card covers. Good copy.. 21,5cmx13,5cm.
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- Bookseller
- Festina Lente (IT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027671
- Title
- ON SHAKESPEARE
- Author
- BRADBROOK, MURIEL
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good copy.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0710806795
- ISBN 13
- 9780710806796
- Publisher
- The Harvester Press / Barnes & Noble Books
- Place of Publication
- Sussex / New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- marlowe venus and adonis henry iv chaucer troilus and criseyde hamlet othello macbeth
- Size
- 21,5cmx13,5cm
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Festina Lente
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