Don Quixote - Fully Annotated Edition with Extra material for Students
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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
| Auflage | 2014 |
| Seiten | 800 |
| Format | 13,0 x 19,7 x 6,0 cm |
| Gewicht | 632 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Evergreens |
| Übersetzer | Tom Lathrop |
| ISBN-10 | 1847493777 |
| EAN | 9781847493774 |
| Bestell-Nr | 84749377UA |
When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself "Don Quixote" and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the fantasy world of literary romance has broken down. His exploits turn into comic misadventures, in which everyday objects are transformed into the accoutrements of chivalry, peasant girls become princesses and windmills are mistaken for formidable giants, leading the hero and his squire Sancho Panza into the realms of absurdity and humiliation. Renowned for its comical set pieces, Don Quixote is a profound meditation on the relationship between truth and fiction and the morality of deception, as well as the foundation stone of the modern novel.
A tale of unbridled greed and an insatiable thirst for power set in eleventh-century Scotland, Macbeth has long been recognized as Shakespeare's fastest-moving tragedy, combining relentless narrative momentum with a profound examination of how psychological coercion mixed with personal ambition can lead to murder - and how individual impulses can shape both a man's own destiny and the course of history.
First performed in around 1606 and published in the First Folio of 1623, Macbeth is presented here in a fully annotated edition that will make the text accessible to twenty-first-century readers, enabling them to appreciate its poetry and encouraging them to delve deeper into its variegated and complex history.
Textual Approach:
Light editorial approach making the text more accessible to modern readers - Meticulous editing, faithful to the first Folio of 1623 - Over 900 textual notes for a clearer or fuller understanding of a word, sentence or passage - Histo rical notes at the end of the book Additional notes about variants - Appendix with modernised and annotated Holinshed text - Includes Middleton's witches' songs - Takes into consideration all modern Shakespeare scholarship - Provides new insight into one of Shakespeare's major tragedies.
Rezension:
The ultimate and most sublime example of human thought. Fyodor Dostoevsky
