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King Richard ll

King Richard ll

King Richard ll

3rd Edition
William Shakespeare
Andrew Gurr , University of Reading
Claire McEachern , University of California, Los Angeles
January 2019
Available
Paperback
9781108437301

    In this updated edition of King Richard II, Claire McEachern provides a fresh introductory section in which she discusses the most important productions and scholarly criticism of recent years. Paying particular attention to the focus on religion in contemporary interpretations of the play, McEachern also analyses the increasing number of performances on stage and screen. Andrew Gurr's acclaimed introduction guides the reader through the play's action and politics, providing a thorough and engaging grounding in its structure, language and staging. An updated reading list completes the edition.

    • Features a fresh introductory section which brings the edition's analysis of scholarly criticism and performance right up-to-date
    • Provides a revised reading list
    • Includes fresh illustrations

    Product details

    January 2019
    Paperback
    9781108437301
    250 pages
    227 × 153 × 13 mm
    0.43kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • The play
    • Textual analysis
    • Appendixes:
    • 1. Shakespeare's use of Holinshed
    • 2. Extracts from Daniel's The Civil Wars
    • 3. 'An Homilie against Disobedience'
    • 4. Extracts from England's Parnassus
    • Reading list.
    • William Shakespeare
    • Claire McEachern , University of California, Los Angeles

      Claire McEachern is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in Longing (Cambridge, 2018); The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612 (Cambridge, 1996); and editor of eight of Shakespeare's plays including the Arden 3 Much Ado About Nothing (2015). Her essay collections include the Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2015), and, with Debora Shuger, Religion and Culture in Renaissance England (Cambridge, 1997).

    • Editor
    • Andrew Gurr , University of Reading

      Andrew Gurr is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, and for the past thirty years has been Director of Research in London for the Globe Theatre. His books include The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642 (Cambridge, 4th edition, 2009), The Shakespearian Playing Companies (1996), Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres (with Mariko Ichikawa, 2000), Playgoing in Shakespeare's London (Cambridge, 2004), The Shakespeare Company 1594–1642 (Cambridge, 2010), Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company, 1594-1625 (Cambridge, 2012) and Shakespeare's Workplace: Essays on Shakespearean Theatre (Cambridge, 2017). He has also edited the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of King Henry V.