Product Description: First published in 1971. This volume explains and analyses the last plays of Shakespeare as dramatic structures. Beginning from the dark comedies, the author describes the ways in which Shakespeare was affected by the new techniques and possibilities for drama opened up by the innovations of the years after 1600, notably by the rise in children's companies...read more

Product Description: First published in 1971. The only substantial text of a series of lectures on Shakespeare by S T Coleridge is that provided by J P Collier's Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton (1856). His text of these important lectures given by Coleridge in 1811-12 has been the basis of all modern editions...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of "greatest" among his works. Recent critical theorizing has destabilized the texts and undermined the notion of "greatness" or any consideration of the plays as works of art...read more

Product Description: Relating this study to current anxieties about the problem of violence, R.A. Foakes reveals how similar concerns are central in Shakespeare's plays. At first Shakespeare exploited spectacular violence for its entertainment value, but in later plays he explored a range of issues relating to war, heroism, manliness, and violence in nature as well as in human beings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Diary of Philip Henslowe (1961), owner of the Rose Theatre in London, remains the most valuable source of information about the workings of the Elizabethan public theaters. The Diary deals with the daily activities of the companies of players who performed at the Rose...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Many of the contributors to this collection, including E. A. J. Honigmann, M. M. Mahood, Jonathan Bate, and Stanley Wells (among others), have been centrally involved in examining, promoting, and sometimes questioning the critical dominance of the stable Shakespeare text, particularly as a result of performance...read more

A collection of quotations from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets are arranged under subject and provide the citation, character, and context of each line (view table of contents)

Product Description: In the first part of Foakes's introduction, the editor examines King Lear as it is read in the mind versus how it is performed on the stage, analyzing historical productions and certain elements of the play that shine in performance but not in text, and vice versa...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Coleridge was a major critic of Shakespeare and a seminal influence on modern criticism. Earlier selections of his Shakespeare criticism are now out of print. This new selection is drawn largely from Professor Foakes' authoritative edition of Coleridge's Literary Lectures and it makes this material available in a format which allows the student to follow the development of Coleridge's ideas and the changes in his critical procedures...read more

Product Description: Coleridge was a major critic of Shakespeare and a seminal influence on modern criticism. Earlier selections of his Shakespeare criticism are now out of print. This new selection is drawn largely from Professor Foakes' authoritative edition of Coleridge's Literary Lectures and it makes this material available in a format which allows the student to follow the development of Coleridge's ideas and the changes in his critical procedures...read more

Product Description: Between 1808 and 1819 Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivered to audiences in Bristol and London more than a hundred lectures in twelve courses that may be broadly described as literary. These two volumes record these lectures, which discussed a variety of topics such as taste, education, superstition, and the Dark Ages in Europe, and which also reflected Coleridge's central concerns as a critic...read more

Product Description: First published in 1971. This volume explains and analyses the last plays of Shakespeare as dramatic structures. Beginning from the dark comedies, the author describes the ways in which Shakespeare was affected by the new techniques and possibilities for drama opened up by the innovations of the years after 1600, notably by the rise in children's companies...read more