This title offers a comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by the major modern critics. "Great Shakespeareans" offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of G. Wilson Knight, William Empson, C.L. Barber and Jan Kott to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.
| ISBN: | 9780826446459 |
| Publication date: | 24th May 2012 |
| Author: | Professor Hugh Grady |
| Publisher: | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Series: | Great Shakespeareans |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Classic and pre-20th century plays Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary reference works Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |