History of English Literature, Volume 2

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 2 offers a general assessment of all of Shakespeare's works, including his youthful poems and sonnets, and an analysis of each play in his oeuvre.

Autorentext

Franco Marucci is a former Professor of English at the Universities of Siena, Florence and Venice Cä Foscari. His publications include Il senso interrotto. Autonomia e codificazione nella poesia di Dylan Thomas (1976), The Fine Delight that Fathers Thought: Rhetoric and Medievalism in Gerard Manley Hopkins (1994), L inchiostro del mago. Saggi di letteratura inglese dell Ottocento (2009) and Joyce (2013). His Storia della letteratura inglese in eight volumes was published by Le Lettere / Editoriale Srl, 2003 2018. As a creative writer he is the author of Pentapoli (2011), followed by Il Michelin del sacro (2012). He runs the blog , with comments and features on literature and music, and a weekly sports page.

Inhalt

CONTENTS: Getting oriented in Shakespeare - Shakespeare and his critics - Organizing the dramatic canon - Biography - The Poems and the Sonnets - The narrative poems - The sonnets - Norm and anti-norm - Irradiation - The History Plays - The history plays - Henry VI - King Richard III - King Richard II - King John - Henry IV Part 1 - Henry IV Part 2 - Henry V - Henry VIII - The Euphuistic Comedies - The euphuistic comedies - The Comedy of Errors - The Taming of the Shrew - The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Love's Labour's Lost - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Roman Plays - The Roman plays - Titus Andronicus - Julius Caesar - Troilus and Cressida - Antony and Cleopatra - Coriolanus - The Tragedies and the Tragicomedies - The tragedies and the tragicomedies - Romeo and Juliet - The Merchant of Venice - Hamlet - Measure for Measure - Othello - Macbeth - King Lear - Timon of Athens - The Romantic and Dark Comedies - The romantic and dark comedies - Much Ado About Nothing - As You Like It - Twelfth Night - The Merry Wives of Windsor - All's Well that Ends Well - The Romances and the Apocryphal Plays - The romances and the apocryphal plays - Pericles - Cymbeline - The Winter's Tale - The Tempest - Apocrypha and plays in collaboration.