Peter Saccio
Autore di Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: The Teaching Company
Opere di Peter Saccio
Richard III: Player-King 2 copie
King Lear - "Then We Go On" 1 copia
Hamlet - The Causes of Tragedy 1 copia
Hamlet - The Protestant Hero 1 copia
Othello - “O Villainy ! “ 1 copia
Othello - “The Noble Moor” 1 copia
King Lear - "This Is the Worst" 1 copia
Macbeth - “Enter Two Murderers” 1 copia
Macbeth - “Fair is Foul” 1 copia
Macbeth - Musing on Murder 1 copia
British Theater - 1890-1990 1 copia
John Osborne Looks Back in Anger 1 copia
Beckett Waits for Godot 1 copia
The Inventions of Tom Stoppard 1 copia
The Menace of Pinter 1 copia
Shakespeare Then and Now 1 copia
Twelfth Night - Malvolio in Love 1 copia
The Merchant of Venice - Shylock 1 copia
Henry IV - All the King’s Men 1 copia
Henry V - The Death of Falstaff 1 copia
Henry V - The King Victorious 1 copia
Henry IV - The Life of Falstaff 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Istruzione
- Princeton University (PhD)
- Attività lavorative
- Leon Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies Emeritus, Dartmouth College
- Organizzazioni
- Dartmouth College
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 59
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 562
- Popolarità
- #44,484
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
- 26
Peter Saccio's book tries to provide help to modern readers of the History plays. He also helps by providing a comparison between Shakespeare's version of events and the version understood by modern historians. Ironically, he concludes that Shakespeare's version of the events was pretty realistic albeit sometimes rearranged and simplified for dramatic effect.
This book should therefore be very useful to people wanting to better understand their Shakespeare. Unfortunately, Saccio's writing style left me confused about the nobles appearing in the plays. His appendixes with choronology and lists of characters were, however, useful.… (altro)