History of English Literature, Volume 2 - Print and eBook

Shakespeare

Franco Marucci

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9783034322294
• eBook ISBN: 9781788742238
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: French Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical, historical and intellectual context for each author.

Volume 2 offers a general assessment of all of Shakespeare's works, summarizes the critical reception since its onset, traces a tentative biography of the playwright, discusses the youthful poems and the sonnets, and analyses the plays one by one. The plays are divided into the traditional thematic and chronological subsets – such as historical dramas, comedies, tragedies and romances – but they are further assessed in terms of their «experimental» or «mature» characteristics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Poems and the Sonnets
• The History Plays
• The Euphuistic Comedies
• The Roman Plays
• The Tragedies and the Tragicomedies
• The Romantic and Dark Comedies
• The Romances and the Apocryphal Plays
• Index of names
• Thematic index