King Richard III (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 4/16/2009
EAN 9780521735568, ISBN10: 0521735564
Paperback, 252 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Language: English
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of King Richard III, Janis Lull has added a new section to her introduction, in which she focuses on contemporary productions of the play as well as recent scholarly criticism. Lull emphasises the importance of women's roles in this popular drama but shows how the text has frequently been cut, rewritten and reshaped by directors and actors to enhance the role of Richard, often at the expense of female characters. The special relationship between King Richard III and Macbeth is also explored while the notes detail the play's language in terms that are easily accessible to contemporary readers.
Introduction
History and meaning in Richard III
Richard III and Macbeth
Plot and language in Richard III
Richard III in performance
The audience in Richard III
Recent stage, film, and critical interpretations
Note on the text
List of characters
THE PLAY
Textual analysis
Appendix 1. The Q-only 'clock' passage
Appendix 2. The Plantagenet family tree
Reading list.