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Drawing on all of Shakespeare's plays, Laurie Maguire shows how they illustrate some of life's most familiar stories about love and madness, fathers and sons, sex and politics, suffering and revenge. The book groups the stories into five broad categories, moving from those concerned with personal identity outwards to those dealing with romance, marriage, family life and public life. This thematic arrangement should make the plays accessible to the widest possible audience.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements. Conventions. List Of Illustrations. 1. Private Life: Shakespeare And Selfhood: The Divided Self. Comedy Of Errors; As You Like ItNaming The Self. Troilus And Cressida; Romeo And Juliet; Taming Of The ShrewThe Self And Language. Measure For Measure; Troilus And CressidaThe National Self. Othello; King Lear The Self At Play. Love's Labour's Lost; Taming Of The Shrew2. Marital Life: Shakespeare And Romance: Love And Hazard. Merchant Of Venice. Love And Friendship. Two Gentlemen Of Verona; Winter's Tale; Two Noble KinsmenLove And Madness. Midsummer Night's Dream; Cymbeline; All's Well; Measure For Measure; Troilus And CressidaMarriage And Identity. Comedy Of Errors; All's Well; Taming Of The ShrewLove And Abuse. The Taming Of The Shrew; Merry Wives Of Windsor; Othello; Troilus And Cressida3. Political Life: Shakespeare And Government: Acting Politics. 3 Henry 6; Richard 3; 1 Henry 4; 2 Henry 4; Henry 5; Coriolanus; Julius CaesarSurviving Politics. Richard 2; Macbeth The Personal Versus The Political. Richard 2; Henry 4; Henry 54. Public Life: Shakespeare And Social Structures: Money. Macbeth; Merchant Of Venice; Romeo And Juliet; Merry Wives Of Windsor; Timon Of AthensWomen And Public Life. Antony And Cleopatra; King John; Measure For MeasureLanguage. Titus Andronicus; Much Ado About Nothing; All's Well5. Real Life: Shakespeare And Suffering: Mingled Yarns. Twelfth Night; King Lear; Much AdoMourning. Hamlet; Twelfth NightThe Family. King Lear; MacbethAnger And Revenge. Titus AndronicusForgiveness. Cymbeline; Pericles; Winter's Tale; Tempest; Henry 8; Two Noble KinsmenIndex.

About the Author :
Laurie Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and a Lecturer in English of Oxford University. She is the author of Shakespearean Suspect Texts (1996) and co-editor of Textual Formations and Reformations (1998), among other publications.

Review :
"This brilliant and inspirational book offers new insight into the work and world of William Shakespeare and offers fresh demonstration of his relevance for our own lives and troubles. At once immensely erudite and extraordinarily accessible, Maguire shows how broken-hearts, dysfunctional families, domestic violence, and other personal and social problems, was all grist for Shakespeare's theatrical imagination. Alongside unflinching criticism of a world-gone-wrong, Shakespeare also offered his audiences solace and hope. The top book on Shakespeare this year, Studying Shakespeare should be on everyone's bookshelf and on The Times Best Seller list." Dypmna Callaghan "Maguire's book is fiesty, informative and stimulating." Atlantis


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780631229841
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell Publishers
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Guide to the Plays
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0631229841
  • Publisher Date: 04 Aug 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 523 gr


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