Overview

This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of contemporary critical readings of Shakespeare's three 'problem plays': All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Trolius and Cressida. Together, they reflect the diversity of late twentieth-century theory and the controversy that continues to be generated by the plays, and discuss a variety of key issues. These include the meaning of the term 'problem play', the historical context and political and cultural significance of the plays, as well as issues of staging and theatre history. The volume also provides a helpful introduction which guides the reader through the critical approaches, terms and debates, as well as explanatory notes for each essay and a useful section on further reading.

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Author:   Professor Simon Barker
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.325kg
ISBN:  

9780333654286

ISBN 10:   0333654285
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   28 April 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Introduction; S.Barker Shakespeare's Problem Plays: Concepts and Perspectives; V.Thomas All's Well That Ends Well and the Tale of the Chivalric Quest; L.Scragg The Political Effects of Gender and Class in All's Well That Ends Well; P.Erickson Subjectivity, Desire and Female Friendship in All's Well That Ends Well; C.Asp Transgression and Surveillance in Measure for Measure; J.Dollimore London in Measure for Measure; L.S.Marcus Love's Tyranny Inside-Out in the Problem Plays: Yours, Mine and Counter-Mine; R.Hillman 'Tricks we Play on the Dead': Making History in Troilus and Cressida; H.James Invading Bodies Bawdy Exchanges: Disease, Desire, and Representation; V.Traub Fragments of Nationalism in Troilus and Cressida; M.Greenfield Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index.

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SIMON BARKER is Principal Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.

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