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A theatergoer's guide to Shakespeare's themes

Title: A theatergoer's guide to Shakespeare's themes / Robert Thomas Fallon.
Author: Fallon, Robert Thomas.
Publication: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, ©2002.

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Description

xviii, 268 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Provides information on the living issues addressed in William Shakespeare's plays.

Subject

Genre/Form

Video recordings.
Handbooks and manuals.
Vidéos.

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Love and hatred: Courtly love -- Romance -- Men and men, women and women -- Family -- Warfare: Stage -- Cause -- Soldiers -- Henry V -- Madness and melancholy: Madness -- Feigned madness -- Melancholy -- Hamlet -- Prince: Gaining power -- Keeping power -- Losing power -- Love versus duty -- Kingship -- Illusion: Stage -- Play within a play -- Masks -- disguises -- Mistaken identities -- Strange shapes -- Universal order: Chain as one -- Chain as links -- Political order -- Supernatural: Ghosts -- Witches and soothsayers -- Clerics -- Deus ex Machina -- Magicians and Fairies -- Evil (and good): Evil by nature -- villains for cause -- Shylock -- Evil women -- Comic villains -- Good -- Hero: Martial hero -- Antihero -- Tragic hero -- Comic muse: Court fops and nincompoops -- Fools and clowns -- Insults -- Double meanings, puns and malaprops -- Falstaff -- Choric voice: Commoners as chorus -- Characters as chorus -- Choruses as chorus -- Epilogue -- Index.

ISBN

1566634571
9781566634571

LCCN

2002022253

OCLC

ocm49225670
49225670
SCSB-14689656

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library