{"product_id":"returning-to-shakespeare-brian-vickers-9780367682415","title":"Returning to Shakespeare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReturning to Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the history of the plays' reception. Originally published in 1989, the collection represents the best of Brian Vickers' work from the previous fifteen years, in a revised and expanded form.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first part of the book focuses on the connection between a work's structural or formal properties and our experience of it. A new study of the \u003ci\u003eSonnets\u003c\/i\u003e shows how personal relationships are literally embodied in personal pronouns. An essay on Shakespeare's hypocrites (Richard III, Iago, Macbeth) analyses the uncomfortable intimacy established between them and the audience by means of soliloquies and asides. Another traces the interplay between politics and the family in \u003ci\u003eCoriolanus\u003c\/i\u003e, two forms of pressure which combine to push the hero outside society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the second part Professor Vickers examines some key episodes in the history of Shakespeare criticism. One essay reviews the persistence of drastically altered adaptations of Shakespeare on the London stage from the 1690s to the 1830s, due to the conservatism of both theatre managers and audience. Another reconstructs the debate over Hamlet's character in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, in which the Romantic image of a hero lacking control of his faculties emerged for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is an important collection by an outstanding Shakespeare critic which will interest specialists and general readers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Vickers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367682419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367682415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Brian Vickers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46384014819583,"sku":"9780367682415","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f96a4553-49e4-4bcf-9e31-35c14a14e9f9.jpg?v=1733282415","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/returning-to-shakespeare-brian-vickers-9780367682415","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}