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Kenneth Muir
First published in 1970, the introduction distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, then chapters on the…
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As a tribute to Kenneth Muir’s life-long devotion to the study of Shakespeare, three senior Shakespeare scholars have asked colleagues to give an account of particularly important or interesting features…
Discussing Shakespeare’s sonnets in relation to sonnets by Italian, French and English poets, Kenneth Muir shows how they were influenced by Shakespeare’s reading of Sidney, Erasmus and Ovid and discusses…
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This book ascertains what sources Shakespeare used for the plots of his plays and discusses the use he made of them; and secondly illustrates how his general reading is woven…
This book discovers what the sources to Shakespeare’s Comedies and Tragedies really were and considers the dramatic reasons for Shakespeare’s departure from them.
This book discusses the extent of Shakespeare’s collaboration in the plays of Edward III, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and the lost Cardenio. It includes chapters on the dramatic value…
This study argues that the plays of Shakespeare must be studied by comparison with each other and not as separate entities; that they must be related to one another, to…
The emphasis of this book is that each of Shakespeare’s tragedies demanded its own individual form and that although certain themes run through most of the tragedies, nearly all critics…
Originally published in 1984. With selections organised chronologically, this collection presents the best writing on one of Shakespeare’s most studied plays.
This volume includes a helpful selection of early criticism as well as modern contributions on The Winter’s Tale from Donald Stauffer, E.M.W. Tillyard, Ernest Schanzer, Inga-Stina Ewbank, S.L. Bethell, G…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews…
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The sound of chainsaws revving on ‘haunted’ Halloween trails has evoked untold screams since Tobe Hooper’s 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hit the cinemas. This book presents an overview of…
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Filmmaker Wes Craven has consistently and imaginatively scared movie audiences since the early 1970s. His films encompass a variety of styles, elements and themes, from nihilistic existentialism to hallucinatory dreamscapes.
Contends that Battlestar Galactica was a memorable attempt to make science fiction accessible to mainstream television audiences. Battlestar Galactica brought special effects to network television and skillfully exploited legends and…
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