Hugh M. Richmond
Autor/a de Shakespeare's Political Plays
Sobre l'autor
Hugh Macrae Richmond is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California. Berkeley. He earned a B.A. from Cambridge University and a D.Phil, from Oxford University, as well as diplomas in language from Florence and Munich. He has received many awards for his scholarship and teaching. mostra'n més His numerous books include: Shakespeare's Political Plays, Shakespeare's Sexual Comedy, and editions of Henry IV, Part I and Henry VIII. Dr. Richmond has also compiled critical bibliographies: Shakespeare and the Renaissance Stage to 1616: Shakespearean Stage History 1616 to 1998 and Shakespeare's Theatre: A Dictionary of His Stage Context. He has created two websites: http://shakespearestagtng. berkeley.edu/ and http://miltonrevealed.berkeley.edu/. mostra'n menys
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Obres de Hugh M. Richmond
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- Nom normalitzat
- Richmond, Hugh M.
- Nom oficial
- Richmond, Hugh Macrae
- Data de naixement
- 1932-03-20
- Lloc de naixement
- Burton-upon-Trent, Engeland
- Educació
- Emmanuel College, Cambridge Universitiet, UK (B.A.) (First Class Honors, English Tripos)
Wadham College, Oxford Universiteit, UK (D.Phil.) (English: Thesis "Traditional Themes in 17th Century Love Poetry")
Universiteit van Florence, Italië (Italiaans)
Universiteit van Munchen, Duitsland (Duits) - Professions
- Assistant d'anglais, Lycée Jean Perrin, Lyon, Frankrijk
English Dept., Universiteit van Californië, Berkeley (Professor)
Directeur, Education Division, Shakespeare Globe, USA
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- Obres
- 11
- Membres
- 44
- Popularitat
- #346,250
- Valoració
- 4.3
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 21
He reviews nine tragedies, but also Cymbeline, Two Noble Kinsmen and Lope's Castelvines y Monteses in comparison to Romeo and Juliet. He reveals the playwright anticipated and depended on spectator reactions.
This is a revealing book bred of decades especially in the Berkeley and California Theater scene, but also of course as an advocate and participant in the reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe in London. Richmond finds Shakespeare in harmony with Lope's idea of "the tragic mixed with the comic...one part grave, the other absurd": not exactly the genre of "tragicomedy" advocated by Fletcher, but perhaps tragedies which end happily, like Richard III or even MacBeth.
HR argues Shakespeare's tragedies are "governed primariy by what audiences welcome, not by respect for the criteria of authorities such as Sidney…" "The plays' structures, characterization, tone and emotional impact are governed primarily by recurring responses to performances from their popular audiences"(8)… (més)