Shakespeare Survey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 28, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521267014
Subjects: Literary studies: general; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: The emancipation of Shakespeare's plays from the bonds of the Victorian and Edwardian commercial theatre was achieved against great odds by an alliance between scholarly opinion and artistic imagination- the first, essential step in the process that J. L. Styan has described in The Shakespeare Revolution (Cambridge, 1977).