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This title offers a comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by the major modern critics. "Great Shakespeareans" offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of G. Wilson Knight, William Empson, C.L. Barber and Jan Kott to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Empson, Wilson Knight, Barber, Kott
• Author: Hugh Grady
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780826446459
• ISBN: 0826446450
• ID: 04449392
• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Weight: 488 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 162 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. March 2012

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