Shakespeare: The Basics [antikvár]

Introduction This book is written for students of English Literature in their final year of Advanced Level study at school and college, but it will also be useful to first-year undergraduates who want an accessible up-to-date introduction to Shakespeare. In the course of the last twenty-five years there have been great changes in the way Shakespeare is studied at undergraduate level and above. These changes are only now beginning to take hold in schools and colleges, where character, plot and theme - ideas that rarely appear in contemporary Shakespeare studies - have until the very recent past been dominant. This means that when students arrive at university they feel unprepared and surprised at what they encounter in their first few lectures on Shakespeare. It means also that those students who take English only so far as A Level are not being kept abreast with the subject's development. Questions set at A Level in England and