William Shakespeare
Henry V
Introduction Screenplay of Henry V
Hamlet: The Film and the Play
Foreword Sir Laurence Olivier Text-editing Shakespeare with particular reference to Hamlet Alan Dent Designing the film Hamlet Roger Furse Hamlet The cast The production unit
Much Ado About Nothing
Series editors’ preface Editor’s note List of productions Introduction Much Ado About Nothing and commentary Bibliography
As You Like It
General editors’ preface Preface Introduction A brief view of the play Fictions of gender Rosalind and the boy actor Later Rosalinds Celia Orlando Phoebe and Audrey Date The Forest of Arden ‘Well, this is the Forest of Arden’ The hunt Robin Hood and his merry men Staging the Forest of Arden Early foresters The Earl …
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Introduction Magical Thinking Metamorphosis The Festive World ‘The Poet’s Eye … The Poet’s Pen’ About the Text Key Facts A Midsummer Night’s Dream Textual Notes Scene-by-Scene Analysis A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Performance: The RSC and Beyond Four Centuries of the Dream: An Overview At the RSC The Director’s Cut: Interviews with Michael Boyd, Gregory …
Measure for Measure
List of characters Measure for Measure A problem play? The writer in his time The powerful and the powerless Justice and mercy Sex and sexuality The language of Measure for Measure Setting and staging William Shakespeare
All’s Well That Ends Well
Preface Introduction The Text The Date The Source Critical Introduction The Verse All’s Well That Ends Well Appendix “Giletta of Narbona”, the thirty-eighth novel of William Painter’s The Palace of Pleasure.
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Preface Introduction Date Publishing history Context and allusion Reception and criticism Shakespeare’s Sonnets This edition Shakespeare’s Sonnets Sonnets A Lover’s Complaint Appendix: Manuscript texts
The Tempest
List of illustrations General editor’s preface Preface Introduction The play Genesis and early performances Genre Structure Music Language Characters The context Domestic politics Brave new world Africa and Ireland Literary forerunners Classical models The ‘salvage man’ Magic Masque The afterlife Restoration rewritings Eighteenth-century ambivalence Romanticism Perspectives on imperialism Re-enter Miranda Freudian influences The Tempest on …
William Shakespeare’s Richard III
Introduction Screenplay Cast Credits