On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature: Essays
| AUTHOR | Kerrigan, John |
| PUBLISHER | OUP Oxford (04/15/2004) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figures as Sir Philip Sidney and Milton, but also less celebrated writers, including Thomas Carew and, in a new piece, William Drummond, to reconfigure the familiar and help extend the canon. Shakespeare looms large in this volume and his poems, plays and influence on Keats, are the subject of half the book.
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ISBN-13:
9780199269174
ISBN-10:
0199269173
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
280
Carton Quantity:
30
Product Dimensions:
5.48 x 0.63 x 8.46 inches
Weight:
0.78 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Index,
Table of Contents
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Literary Criticism | Shakespeare
Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey Decimal:
820.900
Library of Congress Control Number:
2001033990
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This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figures as Sir Philip Sidney and Milton, but also less celebrated writers, including Thomas Carew and, in a new piece, William Drummond, to reconfigure the familiar and help extend the canon. Shakespeare looms large in this volume and his poems, plays and influence on Keats, are the subject of half the book.
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Author:
Kerrigan, John
John Kerrigan was born and brought up in Liverpool, educated at Oxford, and now teaches at Cambridge. He has published extensively on early modern literature, especially Shakespeare, on Romantic poetry, and on contemporary writing. His edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
(1986, often reprinted) was widely acclaimed, and his study of Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (1996) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. In addition to editions and monographs, he has written numerous articles for the (London) Times Literary Supplement and the London Review
of Books, and poetry reviews for "little" magazines. Internationally prominent, he has lectured throughout Britain, Ireland, Europe and North America.
(1986, often reprinted) was widely acclaimed, and his study of Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (1996) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. In addition to editions and monographs, he has written numerous articles for the (London) Times Literary Supplement and the London Review
of Books, and poetry reviews for "little" magazines. Internationally prominent, he has lectured throughout Britain, Ireland, Europe and North America.
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