Doing Shakespeare

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By Simon Palfrey

Series: Arden Shakespeare

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Doing Shakespeare by Simon Palfrey is a thoroughly revised student text that offers close readings of Shakespeare's speeches and scenes, demystifying the language and critical approaches. This edition introduces a performance-based perspective, emphasising the actor's role and making the content easier to navigate with clear signposting. Palfrey's direct, no-nonsense style tackles common student difficulties, presenting Shakespeare's plays as living, dynamic works open to creative reinterpretation.
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This book is ideal for students and readers interested in theatre studies, Shakespearean performance, and those seeking a practical, accessible approach to understanding Shakespeare's plays.

A thoroughly revised edition of the successful student text Doing Shakespeare, first published in 2005. The revised edition introduces a new way of approaching Shakespeare's text, through ideas of performance and the actor's role and restructures the content to make it easier to navigate.

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A thoroughly revised edition of the successful student text Doing Shakespeare, first published in 2005. The book's success lies in the close readings of speeches and scenes it gives students, demystifying the language of the plays and critical approaches to them.

This new edition introduces a new way of approaching Shakespeare's text, through ideas of performance and the actor's role and restructures the content to make it easier to navigate, with clear signposting throughout, guiding students to the content most useful to them.

Simon Palfrey takes a direct approach to the common difficulties faced by students doing Shakespeare and tackles them head-on in a no-nonsense style, making the book especially accessible. He brings us much closer to the animate life of the plays, as things that are not finished monuments but living material, in process and up for grabs, empowering students to see opportunities for their own creative or re-creative readings of Shakespeare.

Series: Arden Shakespeare

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Doing Shakespeare

By Simon Palfrey

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"A dazzling study." – The Times (of London)

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781408132142

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 July 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The Arden Shakespeare

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 800g

Pages: 376

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Arden Shakespeare Simon Palfrey

About the Author

Simon Palfrey is Fellow in English, Braesnose College, Oxford University.

Doing Shakespeare