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Shakespeare's Early Comedies by Eustace M. Tillyard (2001, Uk-Trade Paper)

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Weight: 0.57 lbs. Language: English. Number of Pages: 218. ISBN10: 048530015X. Publication Date: 2001-08-01. Publisher: Athlone Press.

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PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional

ISBN-10048530015X

ISBN-139780485300154

eBay Product ID (ePID)5038311978

Product Key Features

Number of Pages218 Pages

Publication NameShakespeare's Early Comedies

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

SubjectTheater / History & Criticism, Shakespeare

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Performing Arts

AuthorEustace M. Tillyard

FormatUk-Trade Paper

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight9.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal822.3/3

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisOf all that has been written recently on Shakespearean comedy much is cross-sectional; much has pursued themes, patterns, images and son on, recurring throughout the sequence of plays. Less has been written about he plays themselves. There are of course the introductions to new editions; and there have been articles on this or that play: but any books surveying the whole sequence of the comedies have done so with some one special matter in mind. Thus, there may be room for a book like this; one that deals with the comedies primarily as plays, as separate entities. But such treatments need not exclude comment on the background and on how one play is linked with another; and I shall not avoid these matters., This is a perceptive and illuminating account of the background to, and range of, Shakespeare's comedy, fosucing principally upon the early plays. First published in 1965, it is written with Dr Tillyard's usual ranging curiosity, independence and brisk incisiveness. Dr Tillyard is primarily concerned with interpretation of character, and with Shakespeare's instinct in comedy to stay close to ordinary life. He examines the subtle characterisation of the two sisters in The Comedy of Errors; the importance of the Bianca theme in The Taming of the Shrew; the uneasy balance of love and friendship in The Two Gentlemen of Verona; the way in which Love's Labour's Lost mocks at male adolescence; and Shylock's spiritual stupidity in The Merchant of Venice. E.M.W. Tillyard (sometime Master of Jesus College, Cambridge) is remowned for his many works on Shakespeare and Milton.

LC Classification NumberPR2976