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Shakespeare the playwright : a companion to the complete tragedies, histories, comedies, and romances

When Victor Cahn's Shakespeare the Playwright was issued in 1991, it was highly recommended for any general public library and for academic collections at all undergraduate levels (Choice) and viewed as a useful guide for the general reader, as well as high school and undergraduate students Library Journal. Now Professor Cahn has revised his introduction to make the context of Shakespeare's plays more meaningful to the beginning researcher and to show how the plays have been performed from the 16th century onward. In addition, the bibliographies for each of the 37 plays have been updated to in
Print Book, English, 1996
Updated, with a new introd View all formats and editions
Praeger, Westport, Conn, 1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xix, 865 pages ; 24 cm
9780275955229, 0275955222
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The Tragedies: Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
The Histories: The First Tetralogy
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Richard III
King John
The Second Tetralogy: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VIII
The Comedies: The Comedies of Errors
The Taming of the Shrew
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Love's Labor's Lost
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
The Romances: Pericles
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
Appendix 1: The Two Noble Kinsmen
Appendix 2: The Royal Figures from the History Tetralogies
Select Bibliography
Character Index
Index