Richard II
$25.51
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2010
Summary
From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s tragic history of a ruler losing his grip on power. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Richard II in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading directors and an acclaimed actress/director – Michael Boyd, Claus Peymann and Fiona Shaw…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780230272200 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0230272207 |
| Author: | Jonathan Bate, Prof. Eric Rasmussen, Eric Rasmussen |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | The RSC Shakespeare |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 124mm x 193mm |
| Series: | The RSC Shakespeare |
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Jonathan Bate
JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as ‘the best modern book on Shakespeare.’ In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen ‘for services to Higher Education’.
ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World’s Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.
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