Why Shakespeare?
Author:   Catherine Belsey
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition:   2007 ed.
ISBN:  

9781403993199


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   20 April 2007
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD   Availability explained
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Why Shakespeare?


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Why is Shakespeare as highly regarded now as he ever has been? This book's answer to this question counters claims that Shakespeare's iconic status is no more than an accident of history. The plays, Belsey argues, entice us into a world we recognize by retelling traditional fairy tales with a difference, each chapter providing a detailed reading.

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Author:   Catherine Belsey
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Edition:   2007 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9781403993199


ISBN 10:   140399319
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   20 April 2007
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Shakespeare's Singularity As You Like It  and  The Golden Goose King Lear and the Missing Salt The Exiled Princes in  The Winter's Tale Fairy Tales for Grown-ups in  A Midsummer Night's Dream Hamlet  and the Reluctant Hero Twelfth Night  and the Riddle of Gender Cultural Difference as Conundrum in The Merchant of Venice Happily Ever After? Further Reading Abbreviations and References Notes Index.

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CATHERINE BELSEY is Research Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK. Her books include Critical Practice, The Subject of Tragedy and Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden.

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