Timon of Athens: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (755 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199537445 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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highly recommended Dieter Mehl, Archiv
"LIKE SHAKESPEARE DIALOGUING WITH THOMAS MIDDLETON OVER KING LEAR" according to Love Thy Enemy. Thomas Middleton, a great Jacobean playwright junior to William Shakespeare, (see one collection of his plays at A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays: A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; A trick to Catch the Old One; No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's (Oxford World's Classics) as well as Women Beware Women (Oxford Worlds Classics) and Three Jacobean Tragedies: The White Devi. "This is a review of the edition, not the play" according to Thomas C. Heagy. I read this play on Kindle, and although I love Kindle , I would recommend against reading this or any other play by Shakespeare on Kindle. The reason is the footnotes. it is easy on Kindle to navigate to a footnote and then back to the text, and this works fine if there are a modest number of footnotes per page. In Shakespeare's plays there are typically 20 or so footnotes per p
Yet readers have often detected loose ends, and the tone of writing is uneven. Appendices include source materials and a listing of major productions worldwide. The play's plot structure is schematically clear, and the poetry of Timon's rage is arresting in its savage intensity. Readers need to read this play as a dialogue between writers of different temperaments, and this edition is the first to make such a reading possible.The introduction provides the fullest account of the play's performance history available. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. The commentary is the most detailed ever to have been published. Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave. In his introduction, John Jowett explains how these characteristics arise because the play was written as a collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton. This edition pays full justice to Middleton's presence, explaining how his contribution gave the play its distinctive edge. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitm
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language, as well as one of the greatest in Western literature, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. . John Jowett is a Reader in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham