Measure for Measure generates much debate and is strikingly modern. This introductory guide offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performance, studies of influential performances, a survey of film and TV adaptation, a wide sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading.
STUART HAMPTON-REEVES is Course Leader for English and Theatre Studies and Subject Leader for Drama at University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is a founder member and on the executive of the British Shakespeare Association. He is author of Shakespeare in Performance: The Henry VI Plays (MUP 2004).
Title: Measure for Measure: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life (Shakespeare Handbooks)
Author: Hampton-Reeves, Stuart
ISBN: 9781403944177
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 2007-03-22
Number of Pages: 176
Weight: 0.3001 kg