Measure for Measure (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 7/6/2006
EAN 9780521670784, ISBN10: 0521670780

Paperback, 236 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 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 Measure for Measure Angela Stock has written a new introductory section that takes account of recent scholarly criticism and important contemporary productions on stage and film. The edition retains the text prepared by Brian Gibbons together with his comprehensive introduction, in which he shows how the play's critical reception and stage history varies from one period to the next according to the prevailing social, moral and religious issues of the day. Gibbons explores the thrilling experience of watching the play in performance, with its shocking reversals and surprises, great tragic poetry and exuberant comic prose. An updated reading list completes the edition.

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction
Date
Puritanism, political allusion and censorship
The sources and their shaping
The play
The play on the stage
Note of the text
List of characters
The play
Textual analysis
Reading list.