A Shakespeare Reader [Hardcover]

A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism provides a rich collection of critical and secondary material selected to assist in the study of Shakespeare's plays. It includes a selection of sources and analogues Shakespeare drew upon in writing nine of his major works, a variety of widely divergent critical interpretations of the plays over the last sixty years - from the practical criticism of the 1930s to the theoretical approaches of the 1990s - and informative essays on Shakespeare's theatre and on the challenges of editing the Shakespeare text. This book represents an invaluable resource for students and teachers of Shakespeare, as well as for theatre practitioners.A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism provides a rich collection of critical and secondary material selected to assist in the study of Shakespeare's plays. It includes a selection of sources and analogues Shakespeare drew upon in writing nine of his major works, a variety of widely divergent critical interpretations of the plays over the last sixty years - from the practical criticism of the 1930s to the theoretical approaches of the 1990s - and informative essays on Shakespeare's theatre and on the challenges of editing the Shakespeare text. This book represents an invaluable resource for students and teachers of Shakespeare, as well as for theatre practitioners.Preface.- Acknowledgements.- PART ONE: SOURCES AND ANALOGUES.- A Midsummer Night's Dream: from The Discoverie of Witchcraft; R. Scott.- From Metamorphoses Book IV; Ovid.- Richard II: from A Myrroure for Magistrates.- Macbeth: from Chronicles; R. Holinshed.- Antony and Cleopatra: from Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.- Hamlet: from The Spanish Tragedy; T. Kyd.- Of Revenge; F. Bacon.- Twelfth Night: from Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession; B. Riche.- Measure for Measure: from Hecatommithi; G.B. Giraldi Cinthio.- King Lear: from The Faerie Queene; E. Spenser.- From Arcadia;l3-