This is the only book-length study of this pastoral comedy of Shakespeare's written in 1599 or 1600 that explains how the play represents issues and motifsof interest to literate Elizabethan playgoers in these years, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself. MAURICE A. HUNT is a Professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, USA. INDICE: Speculative Understanding and Ignorance in 'Troilus and Cressida','Julius Caesar', and 'Macbeth' - Holding Up Drama as an 'Ideal' Mirror in 'Hamlet' and 'The Life of King Henry the Fifth ' - Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in John Lyly's Comedies - Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in 'Love's Labor's Lost ' - A Speculative Political Allegory in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream ' - Mirroring theEarl of Southampton in 'All's Well That Ends Well '
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11661-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Fecha Publicación: 19/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés