Timon of Athens: The Oxford Shakespeare
Erschienen am 14. August 2008
381 Seiten
978-0-19-156136-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The Oxford Shakespeare
General Editor: Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers
- A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings
- On-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, language, and allusions
- Detailed introduction provides a full account of the play's performance history and explores issues of gender, gift-theory, and ecology
- Appendices include source materials and a chronology of major productions worldwide
- Illustrated with production photographs and related art
- Full index to introduction and commentary
- Durable sewn binding for lasting use
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Date of Composition
- The Structure of a Theatre Work: Acts and Scenes
- Early Staging: Possibilities
- Plutarch and Lucian
- Satire and Tragedy
- Misanthropy
- Giving and Sacrifice
- Male and Female
- Debt
- Gold
- The Iron Age
- Mammon
- Friends
- Alcibiades
- Apemantus
- Thieves
- Steward
- Poet and Painter
- Four Words, Three Epitaphs
- 'The Man-hater' and After
- Modern Worlds: Britain
- Modern Worlds: Europe
- Modern Worlds: North America
- Timon: Approaches to the Role
- Staging the Masque
- Staging the Alcibiades Plot
- 'Timon of Athens' on Television
- Text
- A Divided Play
- Middleton's Hand
- Shakespeare and Middleton
- Editorial Procedures
- Text and Collation
- Commentary
- Abbreviations and References
- THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS
- Appendix A: Alterations to Lineation
- Appendix B: Narrative Source Materials
- Appendix C: Tabulation of Forms Favoured by Middleton
- Appendix D: Major Productions
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
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