Troilus and Cressida

Author: Rasmussen, Eric,Bate, Jonathan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: Shakespeare Plays, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
Book Format: Paperback

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great tragedy of love and war. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Troilus and Cressida in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading directors - Trevor Nunn and Michael Boyd - providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed.


Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.

William Shakespeare and Edited By Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Table Of Contents
Introduction.- About the Text .- Key Facts .- The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida .- Quarto-only Passages .- Textual Notes.- Scene-by-scene Analysis .- Troilus and Cressida in Performance: the RSC and Beyond .- Four Centuries of Troilus: an Overview .- At the RSC .- The Director's Cut: Interviews with Michael Boyd and Trevor Nunn .- Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre .- Shakespeare's Works: a Chronology .- The History Behind the Tragedies: A Chronology .- Further Reading and Viewing .- References .- Acknowledgements and Picture Credits
About 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 (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 - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.

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SKU BK-9780230272262
Barcode # 9780230272262
Brand Palgrave Macmillan
Artist / Author Rasmussen, Eric, Bate, Jonathan
Shipping Weight 0.2500kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 12.900m
Assembled Height 1.400m
Assembled Width 19.800m
Type Paperback

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