Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the text is based on the 1597 Quarto which, it is argued, brings us closest to the play as it would have been staged in Shakespeare's theatre. The introduction, which is illustrated, explores the long performance history from Shakespeare's time to the present. Its critical engagement with the play responds to recent historicist and gender-based approaches. The commentary gives detailed explication of matters of language, staging, text, and historical and cultural contexts, providing coverage that is both carefully balanced and alert to nuance of meaning. Documentation of the extensive textual variants is organized for maximum clarity: the readings of the Folio and the Quarto are presented in separate banks, and more specialist information is given at the back of the book. Appendices also include selected passages from the main source and a special index of actors and other theatrical personnel.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780192839930
eBay Product ID (ePID)
87806473
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Tragedy of King Richard Iii
Author
William Shakespeare
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Plays
Publication Year
2001
Number of Pages
423 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
196mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
446g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
William Shakespeare
Series Title
The Oxford Shakespeare
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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