Appreciating Shakespeare - Rappaport, Gideon

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Résumé :
In Appreciating Shakespeare a master teacher and theatrical dramaturge makes the essentials for deeply appreciating the meaning in Shakespeare's works easily understandable for readers and playgoers of all ages. Part 1 provides background on Shakespeare's life, language, poetic and dramatic techniques, theatrical context, and historical and cultural background. Part 2 offers short essays on twenty-two plays and one on selected sonnets. Founded on the best scholarship and responding to requests from listeners to his Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap podcasts, this book is written for all readers interested in bettering their appreciation of the meaning in Shakespeare's works. Whatever your level of experience with Shakespeare, this book will guide you toward deep appreciation of some of the greatest and most moving works in the English language. The author addresses questions like What's so great about Shakespeare? Did people really talk like that? Why all the footnotes? and Whose interpretation is right? Included is a chapter on how studying Shakespeare can illuminate the nature of all art. The essays in Part 2 point readers to the universally meaningful thematic heart of each play. Appreciating Shakespeare delivers in an easily readable way what is most essential to know for deep appreciation of the plays without overwhelming readers with more information and literary argument than are needed for that appreciation. It can be read straight through but also arranges the essentials according to the most commonly asked questions, making it easy for readers to pinpoint their areas of interest....

Biographie:
Gideon Rappaport, author of Appreciating Shakespeare (2022) and editor of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (2023), has taught Shakespeare for forty-five years in high school, college, graduate school, and adult education courses and works as a theatrical dramaturge on professional productions of Shakespeare's plays.

Sommaire:
Gideon Rappaport, retired teacher and active dramaturge, has taught Shakespeare for forty-five years in high school, college, graduate school, and adult education courses and served as dramaturge on many professional productions of Shakespeare's plays and for Complete Works on Hulu, in which he had his film debut. He graduated from Cowell college, UC Santa Cruz, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English and American Literature at Brandeis University. He edited Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson and co-authored Introduction to the Fundamental Liberal Arts: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric. He lives in San Diego, California....