000			01381nam a22001697a 4500
020			_a9781107642904
082			_a822.33 _bSHA/K
100			_aShakespeare, William
245			_aKing Richard II
260			_aNew Delhi _bCambridge University Press _c2013
300			_a238p.
490			_aThe New Cambridge Shakespeare
520			_aThe New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of King Richard II Andrew Gurr has added a new section to the introduction, in which he discusses a number of important theatrical productions as well as the scholarly criticism of recent years. Gurr foregrounds the growing interest in re-historicising and re-politicising the play, emphasising that, to Shakespeare's contemporaries, King Richard II was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the day: how to reign-in an unjust ruler. The Introduction provides a full context for both contemporaneous and modern views of King Richard's fall. An updated reading list completes the edition.
650			_aShakespeare, William
700			_aGurr, Andrew, ed.
942			_cBK
999			_c38006 _d38006