
King Richard II - The New Cambridge Shakespeare (Paperback)
William Shakespeare (author), Andrew Gurr (editor)
£8.99
Paperback
252 Pages /
Published: 01/05/2003
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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of King Richard II Andrew Gurr has added a new section to the introduction, in which he discusses a number of important theatrical productions as well as the scholarly criticism of recent years. Gurr foregrounds the growing interest in re-historicising and re-politicising the play, emphasising that, to Shakespeare's contemporaries, King Richard II was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the day: how to reign-in an unjust ruler. The Introduction provides a full context for both contemporaneous and modern views of King Richard's fall. An updated reading list completes the edition.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521532488
Number of pages: 252
Weight: 412 g
Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 19 mm
Edition: Updated edition
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Gurr's account is hard-headed and scholarly, very deftly interweaving comment on the play's action with discussion of contemporary political events ... thorough, scholarly and continuously helpful.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
'... sensible and balanced judgements add to an already perceptive introductory essay.' The Journal of the English Association
'... sensible and balanced judgements add to an already perceptive introductory essay.' The Journal of the English Association
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