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Shakespeare's Late Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essays
A truly useful collection of literary criticism on a widely studied author, this collection of essays, selected and introduced by a distinguished scholar, makes the most informative and provocative critical work easily available to the general public. KEY Offers volumes of the same excellence for the contemporary moment. Captures and makes accessible the most stimulating critical writing of our time on a crucial literary figure of the past. Also included is an introduction to the author's life and work, a chronology of important dates, and a selected bibliography.
304 pages, Paperback
First published November 18, 1995
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About the author
Susanne L. Wofford
16 books2 followersSusanne Lindgren Wofford is the Dean of the Gallatin School of New York University in the USA.
A distinguished scholar of epic poetry and of Renaissance and early modern literature, Professor Wofford is the recipient of many prizes and honors, including the University of Wisconsin Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching; the University of Wisconsin Romnes Fellowship; the Hilldale Award for Collaborative Research, UW-Madison; the Robert Frost Chair at the Bread Loaf School of English; the Isabel MacCaffrey Prize (awarded by the Spenser Society); the William Cline Devane Medal for Distinguished Teaching at Yale University; the Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching in Yale College; and the Yale College-Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. She was also appointed to the Charles B. G. Murphy Chair while at Yale.
As a graduate student, won a Mellon Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, a Danforth Fellowship, and a Marshall Scholarship. Currently a member of the Modern Language Association’s Executive Committee for the Division on Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature, excluding Shakespeare, she has served as the President of the Shakespeare Association of America and serves or has served on the boards of the International Spenser Society, American Comparative Literature Association, and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. She is a cofounder and current member of the steering committee of the Theater Without Borders International Collaborative.
Her research interests include Shakespeare, Spenser, Renaissance and classical epic, comparative European drama and narrative and literary theory. Her publications include The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic (Stanford University Press, 1992); Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Politics of Community (coeditor) (University of California Press, 1999); Shakespeare: The Late Tragedies (Prentice-Hall, 1995); and Hamlet: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism (St. Martin’s Press, 1994). Her current projects include two book projects on Shakespeare and transnational Renaissance drama: The Apparent Corpse: Popular and Transnational Bodies on the Shakespearean Stage and Shakespeare and the Foreign: Intercultural Literacy and Literary Diaspora in Early Modern Europe.
A distinguished scholar of epic poetry and of Renaissance and early modern literature, Professor Wofford is the recipient of many prizes and honors, including the University of Wisconsin Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching; the University of Wisconsin Romnes Fellowship; the Hilldale Award for Collaborative Research, UW-Madison; the Robert Frost Chair at the Bread Loaf School of English; the Isabel MacCaffrey Prize (awarded by the Spenser Society); the William Cline Devane Medal for Distinguished Teaching at Yale University; the Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching in Yale College; and the Yale College-Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. She was also appointed to the Charles B. G. Murphy Chair while at Yale.
As a graduate student, won a Mellon Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, a Danforth Fellowship, and a Marshall Scholarship. Currently a member of the Modern Language Association’s Executive Committee for the Division on Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature, excluding Shakespeare, she has served as the President of the Shakespeare Association of America and serves or has served on the boards of the International Spenser Society, American Comparative Literature Association, and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. She is a cofounder and current member of the steering committee of the Theater Without Borders International Collaborative.
Her research interests include Shakespeare, Spenser, Renaissance and classical epic, comparative European drama and narrative and literary theory. Her publications include The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic (Stanford University Press, 1992); Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Politics of Community (coeditor) (University of California Press, 1999); Shakespeare: The Late Tragedies (Prentice-Hall, 1995); and Hamlet: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism (St. Martin’s Press, 1994). Her current projects include two book projects on Shakespeare and transnational Renaissance drama: The Apparent Corpse: Popular and Transnational Bodies on the Shakespearean Stage and Shakespeare and the Foreign: Intercultural Literacy and Literary Diaspora in Early Modern Europe.
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January 17, 2018
This book is an excellent collection of essays for student and research use on Shakespeare's late tragedies.
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