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Appreciating Shakespeare

Appreciating Shakespeare

Gideon Rappaport

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Gideon Rappaport
Año de edición:
2023
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Estudios literarios: obras de teatro y dramaturgos
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9798218127107
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Appreciating Shakespeare makes easily available the essential tools for understanding and enjoying Shakespeare’s plays and poems, which means experiencing the deep and thrilling meanings of his works.Part 1 offers the background knowledge--about Shakespeare’s life, language, poetic and dramatic techniques, theatrical context, and historical and cultural background--that help you to appreciate Shakespeare’s works. Part 2 offers short essays on twenty-two plays, pointing readers to the universally meaningful heart of each and illuminating themes often hidden or misrepresented in many stage and screen productions and critical writings. There is also a chapter dedicated to analysis of a selection of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

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