| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Traces of Shakespeare's life / Stephen Greenblatt -- Shakespeare's reading / Jeff Dolven, Sean Keilen -- Shakespeare's writing : from manuscript to print / H.R. Woudhuysen -- Theatre of Shakespeare's London / Tiffany Stern -- Transmission of Shakespeare's texts / Andrew Murphy -- Shakespeare and language / Jonathan Hope -- Shakespeare the poet / Colin Burrow -- Shakespeare's comedies / Stanley Wells -- Shakespeare's tragedies / Michael Neill -- Shakespeare's English history plays / Ton Hoenselaars -- Shakespeare's classical plays / Heather James -- Shakespeare's tragicomedies / Janette Dillon -- Shakespeare, religion and politics / Claire McEachern -- Shakespeare and race / Jonathan Gil Harris -- Shakespeare, sexuality and gender / Stephen Orgel -- Shakespeare on the stage / Anthony Dawson -- The critical reception of Shakespeare / Emma Smith -- Shakespeare and popular culture / Paul Prescott -- Shakespeare and globalization / Anston Bosman -- Shakespeare and media history / Katherine Rowe -- Shakespeare : reading on / Andrew Dickson. |
| Summary |
Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one brand new essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings of the plays are given in the context of genre as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume, contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a national context, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history of reception and performance --Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
First ed. published as: Cambridge companion to Shakespeare. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
De Grazia, Margreta.
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Wells, Stanley, 1930-
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| Added Title |
Cambridge companion to Shakespeare |
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Companion to Shakespeare |
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Shakespeare |
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Cambridge companion to Shakespeare.
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| ISBN |
9780521886321 hardback |
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0521886325 hardback |
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9780521713931 paperback |
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0521713935 paperback |
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