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Taming of the Shrew: First Quarto of "Taming of a Shrew"
(Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992)
Published in 1594, under the title "The Taming of a Shrew", this play has always been regarded as an earlier version by another dramatist, or as a corrupt "memorial reconstruction" of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew". ...
Shakespeare's History Plays: "Richard II" to "Henry V"
(Palgrave Macmillan, 1992)
This anthology of contemporary criticism was written within the last 20 years, most within the last ten. It aims to problematize, rather than merely reflect, traditional methods and assumptions. The selection of essays ...
Shakespeare and heritage
(1992)
Hamlet: First Quarto
(Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992)
The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, ...
The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (1603)
(Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992)
In this book Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey present another re-issue of one of Shakespeare’s plays, with a view to present a previously un-seen original or authentic version to the time of original publication. Part ...
"Taming of the Shrew" (Shakespeare in performance)
(Manchester University Press, 1991)
This text is a grounded introduction to "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare. It features traditional methods for performance analysis - criticism of the theatrical text and empirical descriptions of instances in its ...
The politics of theatre and drama
(Palgrave Macmillan, 1991)
In this text the authors all explore ideas about drama and the Falklands conflict, in the light of popular films, for example "Tumbledown" and "Born on the Fourth of July." This is read in the socio-political context of ...
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
(Penguin Books Ltd, 1991)
The author looks at some of the ways in which this play has been made accessible, as a romantic story of young love, as "West Side Story" or a colourful and spectacular historical pageant and suggests that they lead away ...
Production, reproduction, performance: marxism, history, theatre
(Manchester University Press, 1991)
A metatheatrical approach to the dramatic and theatrical dimensions of the ‘story’ of the Henriad presupposes a standpoint outside the normal limits of what has been called ‘stage-centred’ reading. It calls for a project ...