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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2019
      July 2017
      ISBN:
      9781316418062
      9781107130449
      9781107571426
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316418062
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 300 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Texts
      Series:
      The New Cambridge Shakespeare
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    Literature, Literary Texts
    Series:
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare
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    The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Troilus and Cressida, a play that has long been considered difficult but is now popular both on the stage and in criticism, features an expanded and updated introduction and reading list. The first edition has been praised for its careful rethinking of the text, excellent annotation, lively attention to performance and extensive coverage of the play's major concerns. This updated edition retains these characteristics. In addition, Gretchen Minton and Anthony B. Dawson have provided a new account of the critical and theatrical treatment of Troilus and Cressida over the last fifteen years, showing how modern audiences have become attuned to the play's sardonic undercutting of both the medieval romance of the title characters and the Homeric tale of the Trojan War. Recent performance history is placed against a broader background of social change, including shifting attitudes towards war, political decision-making, gender politics, and fear of disease and contagion.

    Reviews

    Review of previous edition:'… [an] excellent companion to this delinquent genius of a play.'

    Source: Quarto

    Review of previous edition:'… [a] fine new edition … Anthony B. Dawson's readable and reliable text, together with his excellent explanatory footnotes and his superb discussion of theatrical adaptations of the play, will make this edition a valuable resource for scholars as well as an attractive text for classroom use.'

    Source: Shakespeare Quarterly

    Review of previous edition:'I commend this new edition particularly for the introductory sections.'

    Source: Shakespeare at the Centre Magazine

    Review of previous edition:'… excellent …'

    Source: Around the Globe

    Review of the series:'I cannot recommend too highly the whole series to all theatre lovers, theatregoers, theatre practitioners, and anybody who enjoys Shakespeare.'

    Robert Tanitch Source: What's on in London

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