Shakespeare's Theatre of War Tapa dura - 1998

Ashgate, 1998. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9781840142075

Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate, 1998. Fine/Fine. First Hardback Edition, First Printing. SIGNED TWICE BY AUTHOR. FIRSTLY AS A PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, on front endpaper. Inscription reads, 'vii.99/For -------,/some 'scribbled forms drawn with a pen'./with best wishes from the author.' And secondly SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE WITHOUT DEDICATION OR INSCRIPTION 'Nick de Somogyi'. With Notes On Procedures, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Bibliography, Index. This book concludes with a sustained account of 'Hamlet', a play which both dramatizes the Elizabethan context of war fever, and embodies in its three variant texts the war and peace that shaped its production. By affording scrutiny to each of its title's components, 'Shakespeare's Theatre Of War' provides a compelling argument for reassessing the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries within the enduring context of the military culture and wartime experience of his age. A… Leer más

Hardback. New. Between 1585 and 1604, English life was preoccupied with war, and this period also marks English drama's coming of age. Here, the author draws on a range of contemporary military literature (newsletters, war treatises, maps, manuals) to show how deeply Elizabethan theatre was influenced by wartime.

Ashgate Pub Ltd, 1998. Hardcover. New. new edition edition. 304 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches.

Ashgate Publishing Company , pp. 304 . Hardback. New.