The necessary Shakespeare
By: edited by David Bevington.
Contributors: Bevington, David M.
Publisher: Longman
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 888
Description: "Extracted from the best-selling text The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Fourth Edition, The Necessary Shakespeare offers comprehensive, scholarly apparatus. It provides extensive introductions to the plays and poems, offering discussion topics, sources for each play, and the stage history of performances. The 20 most popular plays, sonnets, historical photographs, maps, and a royal genealogy of England make The Necessary Shakespeare a truly concise and complete anthology."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: General introduction : LIfe in Shakespeare's England ; The drama before Shakespeare ; London theaters and dramatic companies ; Shakespeare's life and work ; Shakespeare's language: his development as poet and dramatist ; Shakespeare criticism --; title: Comedies : The taming of the shew ; A midsummer night's dream ; The merchant of Venice ; Much ado about nothing ; As you like it ; Twelfth night; or, What you will ; Measure for measure --; title: Histories : The tragedy of King Richard the Third ; The tragedy of Richard the Second ; The first part of King Henry the Fourth ; The life of King Henry the Fifth --; title: Tragedies : Romeo and Juliet ; Julius Caesar ; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ; Othello, the Moor of Venice ; King Lear ; Macbeth ; Antony and Cleopatra --; title: Romances : The winter's tale ; The tempest --; title: Poems : Sonnets --; title: Appendix 1. Sources --; title: Appendix 2. Shakespeare in performance --; title: The royal geneology of England --; title: Glossary: Shakespearean words and meanings of frequent occurrence.