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Michael Davies is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Andrew Duxfield is Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Eminently readable … Seasoned academics and new readers alike will find <i>Richard II: A Critical Reader</i> a useful addition to their libraries and reading lists.
Cahiers Élisabéthains
Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Contributions from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making these books ideal companions for study and research.
Key features include:
Essays on the play’s critical and performance histories
A keynote chapter reviewing current research and recent criticism of the play
A selection of new essays by leading scholars
A survey of learning and teaching resources for both instructors and students
This volume offers a thought-provoking guide to Shakespeare’s Richard II, surveying its critical heritage and the ways in which scholars, critics, and historians have approached the play, from the 17th to the 21st century. It provides a detailed, up-to-date account of the play’s rich performance history on stage and screen, looking closely at some major British productions, as well as a guide to learning and teaching resources and how these might be integrated into effective pedagogic strategies in the classroom.
Presenting four new critical essays, this collection opens up fresh perspectives on this much-studied drama, including explorations of: the play’s profound preoccupation with earth, ground and land; Shakespeare’s engagement with early modern sermon culture, ‘mockery’ and religion; a complex network of intertextual and cultural references activated by Richard’s famous address to the looking-glass; and the long-overlooked importance to this profoundly philosophical drama of that most material of things: money.
Series Introduction
Richard II Timeline
Introduction
1.'The Critical Backstory' (Patrick Ashby, University of Bristol, UK)
2.'Richard II: A Performance History' (Kate Wilkinson, Sheffield Theatres, UK)
3.'The State of the Art' (Gavin Schwartz-Leeper, University of Warwick, UK)
4.'New Directions: "Blood and Soil" - Richard II and the Politics of Landscape' (Peter J. Smith, Nottingham Trent University, UK)
5.'New Directions: Richard II, Sermon Culture and the Language of Mockery’ (Adrian Streete, University of Glasgow, UK)
6.'New Directions: Richard Through the Looking-Glass - The Intertextual Mirror in Richard II' (Andrew Duxfield, University of Liverpool, UK)
7.'New Directions: King Thing Nothing - Richard II and his problems' (Michael Davies, University of Liverpool, UK)
8.'Learning and Teaching Resources: Text, Context and Performance' (Esme Miskimmin, University of Liverpool, UK)
Bibliography
Index
Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research.
Key features include:
Essays on the play’s critical and performance history
A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play
A selection of new essays by leading scholars
A survey of resources to direct students’ further reading about the play in print and online
Older titles from the series can be found here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/series/continuum-renaissance-drama-guides/
Product details
Biographical note
Michael Davies is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Andrew Duxfield is Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, UK.