Forensic Shakespeare

by Quentin Skinner

Book Overview

Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Hamlet) and on three early Jacobean dramas, (Othello, Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well), Quentin Skinner argues that major speeches,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019881643X
• ISBN13: 9780198816430
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"