Shakespeare's Tragedies Reviewed: A Spectator's Role

by Hugh M. Richmond

Overview

Shakespeare's Tragedies Reviewed explores how the recognition of spectator interests by the playwright has determined the detailed character of Shakespeare tragedies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433129193
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	08/31/2015
Series:	Studies in Shakespeare , #22
Pages:	207
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hugh Macrae Richmond is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned a BA from Cambridge University and a DPhil from Oxford University, as well as diplomas in language from Florence and Munich. He has received many awards for his scholarship and teaching. His numerous books include: Shakespeare’s Political Plays, Shakespeare’s Sexual Comedy, and editions of Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry VIII. Dr. Richmond has also compiled critical bibliographies: Shakespeare and the Renaissance Stage to 1616: Shakespearean Stage History 1616 to 1998 and Shakespeare’s Theatre: A Dictionary of His Stage Context. He has created two websites: http://shakespearestaging. berkeley.edu/ and http://miltonrevealed.berkeley.edu/.

Table of Contents

Contents: The Spectator and the Dramatists – Renaissance Dramaturgy – Richard III as «a Tragedy with a Happy Ending» – A Spectator’s View of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Lope de Vega’s Castelvines y Monteses – Interlude: Mixed Modes Throughout Shakespeare – Julius Caesar and Neoclassicism 59 – Hamlet: The Spectator as Detective – Othello: Iago’s Audience – Macbeth: Satisfying the Spectator – Coriolanus: The Spectator and Aristotelianism – Enjoying King Lear – Antony and Cleopatra: Comical/Historical/Tragical – Cymbelene as Resolution: Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral – Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Editorial Reviews

«All in all, Richmond’s claim to offer a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural dialogue during the Renaissance and its contribution to intellectual history provides fresh insights into an exciting field.»
(Sonja Fielitz, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 255/2018)

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