Shakespeare
The Seven Ages of Human Experience
2. Auflage Mai 2005
278 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The extended second edition of this inspiring introduction to
Shakespeare offers readers more insights into what makes
Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works.
* * A highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary
phenomenon of Shakespeare
* * Explores Shakespeares works through the "Seven Ages of Man",
from childhood to "second childishness and mere oblivion"
* * Now includes more material on fathers and sons, the perils of
courtship, the circumstances of Shakespeares own life, the
performance history of his plays on stage and on screen, and
more
* * A new final chapter on "Shakespeare Today" looks at the
remarkable diversity of interpretations in modern criticism and
performance of Shakespeare
* * Discusses a wide range of plays and poems
* * Suitable for both non-specialist readers, and scholars seeking
a fresh approach to the study of Shakespeare
To the Reader.
1 All the World's a Stage: Poetry and Theatre.
2 Creeping Like Snail: Childhood, Education, Early Friendship,
Sibling Rivalries.
3 Sighing Like Furnace: Courtship and Sexual Desire.
4 Full of Strange Oaths and Bearded Like the Pard: The
Coming-of-Age of the Male.
5 Jealous in Honour: Love and Friendship in Crises.
6 Wise Saws: Political and Social Disillusionment,
Humankind's Relationship to the Divine, and Philosophical
Scepticism.
7 Modern Instances: Misogyny, Jealousy, Pessimism, and Midlife
Crises.
8 The Lean and Slippered Pantaloon: Ageing Fathers and their
Daughters.
9 Last Scene of All: Retirement from the Theatre.
10 Shakespeare Today.
Notes.
Further Reading.
Index
this wonderful new book, Bevington uses the "seven ages of
man" speech from As You Like It to weave together
Shakespeare's plays and poems with what is known of
Shakespeare's life."
Barbara Mowat, Folger Shakespeare Institute [of the first
edition]
"This is a book from [...] one of the great Shakespeare
scholars of his generation. The book is well-written, at once
lively and learned, engaging and informative. It is perfectly
designed to help non-specialist readers enjoy Shakespeare's plays
better and yet it is also rich with insights that will challenge
the specialist reader." David Scott Kastan, Columbia
University [of the first edition]
"Recommended for all public and academic libraries in need of
fresh introductory materials on Shakespeare."
Library Journal [of the first edition]
"Essential. A must for lower- and upper-division undergraduates;
a pleasure for graduate students through faculty and for general
readers."
Choice [of the first edition]
"[This book] is sensible and persuasive in its linking of
criticism and biography. Its primary audience is students, who will
find the treatments of individual plays excellent as stand-alone
studies as well as part of a larger argument."
English Association Journal for Teachers of English
"Objective and personal, too, the book is likely to be useful
for long to come"
Notes and Queries
Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
His numerous publications include The Bantam Shakespeare, in 29
paperback volumes (1988, new edition forthcoming), and The
Complete Works of Shakespeare (fifth edition, 2003), as well as
the Oxford Shakespeare edition of Henry IV Part I (1987),
the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of Antony and
Cleopatra (second edition, 2005), and the Arden Shakespeare
edition of Troilus and Cressida (1998). He is the senior
editor of the Revels Student Editions, and is a senior editor of
the Revels Plays and of the forthcoming Cambridge edition of the
works of Ben Jonson. He is also general editor of English
Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology (2002).
