This outstanding critical study explores the many conflicting interpretations of a paradoxical and disarming play that breaks most of the rules and yet,like Cleopatra Herself,manages to make 'defect perfection'.As well as chapters on Shakespeare's methods of characterization,on construction,sources and historical bacdkguound,Professor Muir provides a detailed scene-by-scene commentary:themes and characters are student with a fully rounded appreciation of the play.
作者简介:
Kenneth Muir was an internationally renowned Shakespeare scholar.He was editor of Shakespeare Survey between 1965and 1980,a Vice-President of the International Shakespeare Association and Professor Emeritus in English Literature at the works of major poets and dramatists as well as being the author of many critical works,including Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence,He translated sixteen French and Spanish plays,and had considerable experience as an amateur actor and producer:he directed one production of King Lear and years later played Gloucester in another.Kenneth Muir died in 1996. |
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