Prefaces to Shakespeare: Love's Labor Lost (Granville Barker's Prefaces to Shakespeare)
by Harley Granville-Barker
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The classic - and most practical - guide to Shakespeare's major plays, available in separate, pocket-format volumes for use in study or rehearsal room. With a foreword by Richard Eyre. 'I regard Granville Barker not only as the first modern English director but as the most influential' Richard Eyre 'A deep and penetrating intelligence illuminates his observations, and they remain permanently relevant' Peter BrookTags
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Granville-Barker is a great, short text for the interested Shakespeare amateur, or even for those of us who think we're professional observers of his work. Granville-Barker walks through the play looking at: 1) the history and context of the work, 2) a detailed synopsis of the play which is structured more as a critical analysis, discussing references, details, thematic issues, and the like, in chronological narrative order; and 3) attitudes toward presenting the play into the modern era.
It's not an all-encompassing work, but it's a great look into the play.
It's not an all-encompassing work, but it's a great look into the play.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 822.33 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English drama Elizabethan 1558-1625 Shakespeare, William 1564–1616
- LCC
- PR2822 .G69 — Language and Literature English English Literature English renaissance (1500-1640)
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- Languages
- English
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