This work provides the background to Shakespeare's plays. The author shows how Shakespeare came to occupy his current position at the pinnacle of English literature, how little we know of his life and how recent scholarship has made immense strides in illuminating his works. Subsequent chapters consider what we know about the social and political scene in Shakespeare's day, the rival theatrical companies in an age of the plague, plagiarism and literary piracy and the actual design of Elizabethan playhouses. Dr Harrison concludes by looking at the established canon and its chronology, the development of Shakespeare's style and the techniques used by modern editors to turn Folios and Quartos into readable texts.

Introducing Shakespeare (Penguin Literary Criticism)

Harrison, G.B.

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin??Books

1939 Dust jacket worn and torn at edges, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Introducing Shakespeare

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Presents concise biographical and critical studies of distinguished British writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with excerpts from their works

Major British Writers

Harcourt College Pub.

Shakespeare: the Complete Works

Intended for the college student, this collection of the plays and poems is prefaced by extensive historical background and critical analysis

Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Shakespeare., William

Dramas & Plays

Profession of English (Harvest/HBJ Book)

British & Irish

Harcourt

Shakespeare at work, 1592-1603

Greenwood Press

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

England in Shakespeare's day,

Scholarly Press

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Last Elizabethan Journal V3: A Last Elizabethan Journal

Literary

Routledge

First published in 1928. This book collects together over one hundred sources by Elizabethan authors which show English life in English literature. Most of them have been selected as much to catch the atmosphere as the moods of the period, and come from the great Elizabethan writers who can transmit the essence of the time. A 'gallery of Elizabethan pictures' rather than a complete survey of life in Shakespeare's day, the spelling and punctuation have been modernized throughout. To enable those who wish to read the extracts in their context, references are given to the most accessible editions.

England in Shakespeare's Day

First published in 1951. G B Harrison here recognizes that Shakespeare's tragedies were intended for performance in a theatre and that the playwright's conspicuous gift among his contemporaries was a sympathy for joy and sorrow, pity and terror, and right and wrong of his people. The plays covered are: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens.

Shakespeare's Tragedies

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