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Essential Shakespeare : the Arden guide to text and interpretation / Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens.
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Author
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Date published
2013
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Publisher
London : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2013.
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Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations--History and criticism
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Accession number
8341117
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Class
Reading Room - 72/BIC
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ISBN
9781472520272
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Language
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Physical description
viii, 343 p. ; 20 cm.
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Contents: How To Use This Book / Introduction / 1. A Midsummer Night's Dream: transformations, illusions, festivity / 2. Much Ado About Nothing: exploring language and gender / 3. Twelfth Night: disguises and desires / 4. Measure for Measure (and its problems...) / 5. Hamlet: a play of 'perpetual modernity' / 6. Othello: sex, race and suggestibility / 7. King Lear: 'That things might change, or cease' / 8. Macbeth: kingship and witchcraft / 9. Antony and Cleopatra: the legendary on stage / 10. King Richard II: the performance of majesty / 11. Richard III: history's monster or charismatic villain? / 12. Cymbeline: 'an experimental romance'? / 13. The Winter's Tale: tyranny, trials, Time / 14. The Tempest: where 'Thought is free' / Glossary / References / Index.