The Riverside Shakespeare
Before Gary loses his mind altogether about how much reading I do, Ive been at this one since April of 2014. I list it as new this year (as I did earlier with the NIV Study Biblein its case also a different translation, something not applicable to Shakespeare) because all the scholarly apparatus is new to me: introductory essays, notes on source texts and variants, general chronology of other events during Shakespeares lifetime, critical surveys of performance history, etc., are new. I had read
Although I've read MOST of this anthology, I cannot honestly say that I've the whole thing.But, almost all.Henry VI, Parts I, II, & III, quite frankly were too daunting. They became laborious which was exactly the OPPOSITE experience of the rest of the plays, sonnets, and scholarship in this wonderful compilation.
Did this course with Mr. Blistein at Brown in the mid 1970's. We covered it all, although I think I slept through a few of the histories...
This one will probably always be on my currently reading shelf. Right now I am working on scenes from Richard III and Twelfth Night and monologues from Cymbeline and Henry IV, part ii, also the sonnets. My least favorite play so far is the Merry Wives of Windsor - the opening scene makes no sense and if Shakespeare wrote it he must have been drunk.Now I'm working on a new scene from Twelfth Night and one from All's Well That Ends Well. The latter one I have never read so more on what I think
Not trying to show off here, but I have literally read everything that Shakespeare wrote because a) I'm an English teacher, b) I'm a theatre dork, and c)I was like a total stalker for the stuff in college and read it for fun because I'm just that lame. Of course I like some of it better than others, but there's a reason the man is so famous. Favorite comedies: Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice (in that order). Favorite tragedies: Hamlet,
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Hardcover | Pages: 2057 pages Rating: 4.55 | 4242 Users | 198 Reviews
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Original Title: | The Riverside Shakespeare |
ISBN: | 0395754909 (ISBN13: 9780395754900) |
Edition Language: | English |
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The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare. The authors of the essays on recent criticism and productions are Heather DuBrow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and William Liston, Ball State University, respectively.Identify About Books The Riverside Shakespeare
Title | : | The Riverside Shakespeare |
Author | : | William Shakespeare |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Second Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 2057 pages |
Published | : | 1997 by Houghton Mifflin Co. (first published January 1st 1974) |
Categories | : | Classics. Plays. Poetry. Drama. Fiction |
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Need a comprehensive volume of all of Shakespeare's works? This book is for you.How about a security system? I guarantee any burglar you bash over the head with this book is going to have at least a concussion, if not brain damage. What about a doorstop? do you live in a drafty house with doors slamming all the time? You need one of these then, any door parked behind this tome is going nowhere.Got kids? Are they too big for a high chair but still a little too short for a regular chair? Park oneBefore Gary loses his mind altogether about how much reading I do, Ive been at this one since April of 2014. I list it as new this year (as I did earlier with the NIV Study Biblein its case also a different translation, something not applicable to Shakespeare) because all the scholarly apparatus is new to me: introductory essays, notes on source texts and variants, general chronology of other events during Shakespeares lifetime, critical surveys of performance history, etc., are new. I had read
Although I've read MOST of this anthology, I cannot honestly say that I've the whole thing.But, almost all.Henry VI, Parts I, II, & III, quite frankly were too daunting. They became laborious which was exactly the OPPOSITE experience of the rest of the plays, sonnets, and scholarship in this wonderful compilation.
Did this course with Mr. Blistein at Brown in the mid 1970's. We covered it all, although I think I slept through a few of the histories...
This one will probably always be on my currently reading shelf. Right now I am working on scenes from Richard III and Twelfth Night and monologues from Cymbeline and Henry IV, part ii, also the sonnets. My least favorite play so far is the Merry Wives of Windsor - the opening scene makes no sense and if Shakespeare wrote it he must have been drunk.Now I'm working on a new scene from Twelfth Night and one from All's Well That Ends Well. The latter one I have never read so more on what I think
Not trying to show off here, but I have literally read everything that Shakespeare wrote because a) I'm an English teacher, b) I'm a theatre dork, and c)I was like a total stalker for the stuff in college and read it for fun because I'm just that lame. Of course I like some of it better than others, but there's a reason the man is so famous. Favorite comedies: Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice (in that order). Favorite tragedies: Hamlet,
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