Tanner, Tony.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
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- Originally published: 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- In the final ten years of his life, Tony Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on, writing a preface to each of Shakespeare’s plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture to close readings of Shakespeare’s deployment of complex words in his plays.–[book jacket]
- Comedies. The comedy of errors The taming of the shrew The two gentlemen of Verona Love’s labor’s lost Romeo and Juliet A midsummer night’s dream The merchant of Venice The merry wives of Windsor Much ado about nothing As you like it Twelfth night All’s well that ends well Measure for measure — Histories. Henry VI, part one Henry VI, part two Henry VI, part three Richard III King John Richard II Henry IV, part one Henry IV, part two Henry V Henry VIII — Major tragedies. Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth — Greek and Roman plays. Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Coriolanus — Romances. Pericles Cymbeline The winter’s tale The tempest.
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