Shakespearian Concepts (A Methuen dramabook)

by Simon Trussler (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.36

  A handbook for school and university students of English literature studying Shakespeare. Arranged alphabetically, it provides a guide to the meaning and usage of over 500 Shakespearean concepts. The author is a specialist in the period 1560-1800 and is co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly . Fully cross-referenced, the guide embraces themes and ideas, theatrical conventions, major influences upon the drama and the institutions which affected it. Modern critical terms found in any discussion of the period are also included.