York Notes Companions Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

by MacKay, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9781408204801
• ISBN10: 1408204800
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-07
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

ThisYork Notes Companionbrings Renaissance drama to life by considering such classic plays asHamlet,OthelloandDr Faustusfrom the perspective of contemporary theatre-goers.ThisYork Notes Companionbrings Renaissance drama to life by considering such classic plays asHamlet,OthelloandDr Faustusfrom the perspective of contemporary theatre-goers. Part of the first literature study guides to cover key literary periods and texts and combine them with historical and cultural contexts Contains essential information on relevant literary criticism Dr Hugh Mackay is an experienced lecturer who has also written extensively in the field Contains various helpful features such as extented commentaries, additional notes, timelines and annotated further reading

Author Biography

Dr Hugh Mackay completed his Phd on early Jacobean drama in 2003 at the University of Southampton, under the supervision of Professor Kathleen McLuskie, Director of the Shakespeare Institute. From 2002 to 2007 he taught various undergraduate courses at Southampton, ranging from ‘Literature and History’, ‘Shakespeare’s Histories and Comedies’ to ‘Critical History’ and ‘Marxism and Psychoanalysis’. He has a paper on ‘Lust’s Dominion and the Readmission of the Jews’, published in the Review of English Studies, and has co-organised and presented at several conferences.

Table of Contents

Part One: Introduction

 

Part Two: A Cultural Overview

 

Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts

 

• Shakespeare’s comedies of eros: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It

                        Extended commentary: Twelfth Night

 

• Chronicles of virtue – Shakespeare’s history plays: Richard III and Henry IV Part 1

                        Extended commentary: Henry V

 

• Tyranny and terror – Tragedy on the English Stage: Dr Faustus, Othello and Macbeth

                        Extended commentary: Hamlet

 

• Shakespearean tragicomedy: Philaster andAll’s Well that Ends Well              Extended commentary: The Tempest

 

• Comedies of Humour, Comedies of Pain: Every Man in his Humour and The Fawn

                        Extended commentary: Volpone

 

• Jacobean Revenge drama: Revenger’s Tragedy and Women Beware Women

                        Extended commentary: The Duchess of Malfi

 

 

 

Part Four:  Critical theories and Debates

 

Madness and Subjectivity

 

Rhetoric and Performance

 

Women at the Edge

 

Nation-building

 

Part Five: Resources

 

Timeline

 

Further reading

 

Index