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Author:   Professor Kiernan Ryan (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781472586988

ISBN 10:   1472586980
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   26 August 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface PART I 1 The Birth of Shakespearean Tragedy: 2 & 3 Henry VI The Quondam King The Wild Morisco The Upstart Crow The Devil's Butcher PART II 2 Titus Andronicus: A Sympathy of Woe Prototypes and Precursors A Wilderness of Tigers This Fearful Slumber 3 Romeo and Juliet: Kissing by the Book Strange Love Grown Bold The Prison-House of Language Empowering the Audience 4 Julius Caesar: The Common Good An Icy Anatomy Scorning the Base Degrees The Foremost Man of All the World PART III 5 Hamlet: A Kind of Fighting The Stamp of One Defect Seeing Doubles That Within Which Passes Show Things Rank and Gross in Nature The Whips and Scorns of Time The Strong Confluence of Contending Forces A King of Infinite Space The Prophetic Soul of the Wide World 6 Othello: Thereby Hangs a Tail Expectation in Preference to Surprise Sinking Below Shakespeare True Colours The Green-Eyed Monster Who Hath Done This Deed? The Tragedy of the Handkerchief If Wives Do Fall Motiveless Malignity and the Curse of Service What You Know, You Know A Pageant to Keep Us in False Gaze 7 King Lear: Shakespeare's Leviathan A Play Fit for a King Echoes and Anticipations (i) Echoes and Anticipations (ii) A Better Where to Find The Whoreson and the Plague of Custom The Fool and the King The Art of Known and Feeling Sorrows The King and the Beggar So Distribution Should Undo Excess A Whole Dead World Galloping Over the Living Earth 8 Macbeth: The Habit of Another Nature Embracing the Butcher Supernatural Soliciting Terrestrial Tragedy The Language of Complicity Vaster Powers Without: Mirroring Macbeth So Much More the Man Dispossession and Disavowal Pity, Like a Naked New-Born Babe Blood Will Have Blood Ere Humane Stature Purged the Gentle Weal PART IV9 Antony and Cleopatra: Making Defect Perfection Tragedy Travestied The Nobleness of Life Past the Size of Dreaming: Utopian Realism A Lass Unparalleled 10 Coriolanus: A World Elsewhere Antecedents and Affinities An Inventory to Particularize Their Abundance To Unbuild the City and to Lay All Flat A Kind of Nothing Works Cited Index

Reviews

This is a riveting, beautifully argued, and important book that makes a committed case for Shakespeare's egalitarian vision. Shakespeare's Universality: Here's Fine Revolution (2015), Renaissance Quarterly I find it impossible to imagine a more brilliant book about Shakespeare's comedies than this one ... It's the first great book on its subject of the 21st century. Shakespeare's Comedies (2009), Rob Maslen, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Glasgow, UK It is impossible to do justice to the compacted richness of Ryan's study...The book is certainly a major contribution to Shakespeare studies. -- The Times Review of Shakespeare (1989) A thrilling polemic -- The Guardian Review of Shakespeare (1989)

This is a riveting, beautifully argued, and important book that makes a committed case for Shakespeare's egalitarian vision. * Shakespeare's Universality: Here's Fine Revolution (2015), Renaissance Quarterly * I find it impossible to imagine a more brilliant book about Shakespeare's comedies than this one . . . It's the first great book on its subject of the 21st century. * Shakespeare's Comedies (2009), Rob Maslen, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Glasgow, UK * It is impossible to do justice to the compacted richness of Ryan's study...The book is certainly a major contribution to Shakespeare studies. -- The Times * Review of Shakespeare (1989) * A thrilling polemic -- The Guardian * Review of Shakespeare (1989) *

Author Information

Kiernan Ryan is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and an Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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