The First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Texts and Contexts (Bedford Shakespeare)

Shakespeare, William; Hodgdon, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0312134029 / ISBN 13: 9780312134020

Edité par Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997

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Soft cover and pages showing no signs of wear. The book is clean and unmarked. The binding is tight.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Texts and Contexts (Bedford Shakespeare)
• Éditeur: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0312134029
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780312134020
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: As New

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Synopsis

This teaching edition of Shakespeare's The First Part of King Henry the Fourth responds to the needs of instructors using a variety of approaches to Shakespeare, including historical and cultural studies approaches. The play is accompanied by 6 sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, excerpts from the chronicle accounts of English history, conduct book literature, military manuals, descriptions of the early modern theater and other entertainments, and literary works presenting alternative versions of Shakespeare's play. The documents and illustrations contextualize the play's treatment of history, civic order and rebellion, authority, the idea of honor, the feminine, the education of a prince, and revelry at the margins of culture. Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an intelligent and engaging general introduction, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.

Présentation de l'éditeur

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, put into practice the techniques and theories that had evolved under the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably by today's standards, although it took the best part of half a century to produce, the New Shakespeare involved only a small band of editors besides Dover Wilson himself. As the volumes took shape, many of Dover Wilson's textual methods acquired general acceptance and became an established part of later editorial practice, for example in the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares.