The Merchant of Venice
$19.83
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2010
Summary
From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy of courtship and ethnic tension. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merchant of Venice in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading directors and two actors – Darko Tresjnak, David Thacker, Anthony Sher and H…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780230243866 |
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| ISBN-10: | 023024386X |
| Author: | Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate, Prof. Eric Rasmussen |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | The RSC Shakespeare |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | The RSC Shakespeare |
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‘The glossary includes much that has been ignored in the past, enlightening the new student…as well as adding to the vocabulary of those who have been enjoying his plays all their lives… an invaluable resource.’ - Word Matters
About The Author
Eric Rasmussen
JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. 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). 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 has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.
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