{"product_id":"essays-mainly-shakespearean-paperback-9780521032797","title":"Essays, Mainly Shakespearean (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521032797","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEssays, Mainly Shakespearean\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA wide-ranging collection of essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnne Barton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521032797, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 January 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e408 pages, 10 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.609 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"All of the essays, in their detailed and illuminating comparisons, revitalize our sense of Shakespeare's astonishing supremacy within his age, but are also characterized by a steady respect for the less familiar plays of the period, and an evident pleasure in exploring their qualities....[Barton] drives us back to Shakespeare's text with new eyes, new questions, and new understanding.\"   Ian Donaldson, Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAnne Barton's essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries are characterized by their combination of intelligence, humanity and elegance. In this linked but wide-ranging collection she addresses such diverse issues as Shakespeare's trust (and mistrust) of language, the puzzle of Falstaff's inability to survive in a genuinely comic world, the unconsummated marriage of Imogen and Posthumus in Cymbeline, Shakespeare's debt to Livy and Machiavelli in Coriolanus, 'hidden' kings in the Tudor and Stuart history play, comedy and the city, and deer-parks as places of liberation and danger in English drama up to and beyond the Restoration. Professor Barton looks at both major and neglected plays of the period and the ongoing dialogue between them. Taken together the essays reveal a remarkable range of reference and depth of insight, together with an increasing emphasis on historical and social contexts.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. 'Wrying but a little': marriage, law and sexuality in the plays of Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e 2. Love's Labour's Lost (1953)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Shakespeare and the limits of language (1971)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Falstaff and the comic community (1985)\u003cbr\u003e 5. As You Like It and Twelfth Night: Shakespeare's 'sense of an ending' (1972)\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Nature's piece 'gainst fancy': the divided catastrophe in Antony and Cleopatra (1974\/1992)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Livy, Machiavelli and Shakespeare's Coriolanus (1985)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Leontes and the spider: language and speaker in Shakespeare's last plays (1980)\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'Enter Mariners wet': realism in Shakespeare's last plays (1986)\u003cbr\u003e Part II: 10. The king disguised: Shakespeare's Henry V and the comical history (1975)\u003cbr\u003e 11. 'He that plays the king': Ford's Perkin Warbeck and the Stuart history play (1977)\u003cbr\u003e 12. Oxymoron and the structure of Ford's The Broken Heart (1980) 13. Shakespeare and Jonson (1983)\u003cbr\u003e 14. London comedy and the ethos of the city (1979)\u003cbr\u003e 15. Comic London\u003cbr\u003e 16. Parks and Ardens (1992)\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Shakespeare%20studies%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDSGS%5D%22\"\u003eDSGS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003113951512,"sku":"9780521032797","price":41.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521032797i_cd44b7e4-de6c-4cfd-aacc-2f1cb3797d0b.jpg?v=1694965055","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/essays-mainly-shakespearean-paperback-9780521032797","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}