Shakespeare's Professional Skills by Neville Coghill

Shakespeare's Professional Skills by Neville Coghill

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Professor Coghill examines Shakespeare's creative imagination and the ways his sense of the needs of dramatic presentation directed his skill as a writer. He analyses Shakespeare's use of the soliloquy and his skill in juxtaposing particular scenes for effect. This fresh approach to Shakespeare as a dramatist will be of interest to Shakespearean scholars and playgoers.

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Shakespeare's Professional Skills by Neville Coghill

Professor Coghill brought thirty years' experience of directing the plays to this study of Shakespeare's creative imagination and the ways his sense of the needs of dramatic presentation directed his skill as a writer. He shows that Shakespeare had an understanding of his art and an ability to use and extend all the resources of the playwright unmatched by any of his contemporaries. Professor Coghill's approach is analytical. He discusses the problem of telling a story on the stage and examines the point of specific scenes or speeches. In particular he analyses Shakespeare's use of the soliloquy and his skill in juxtaposing particular scenes for effect. This fresh approach to Shakespeare as a dramatist, rather than as a poet, will be of interest to Shakespearean scholars and playgoers.
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ISBN 13 9780521046817
ISBN 10 0521046815
Title Shakespeare's Professional Skills
Author Neville Coghill
Condition Unavailable
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1964-01-03
Number of pages 240
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