The new Cambridge companion to Shakespeare /
The new Cambridge companion to Shakespeare / [print]
edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells.
- second edition.
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2010.
- xvi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Cambridge companions to literature .
- Cambridge companions to literature. .
First edition published as: Cambridge companion to Shakespeare.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Traces of Shakespeare's life Shakespeare's reading Shakespeare's writing : from manuscript to print Theatre of Shakespeare's London Transmission of Shakespeare's texts Shakespeare and language Shakespeare the poet Shakespeare's comedies Shakespeare's tragedies Shakespeare's English history plays Shakespeare's classical plays Shakespeare's tragicomedies Shakespeare, religion and politics Shakespeare and race Shakespeare, sexuality and gender Shakespeare on the stage The critical reception of Shakespeare Shakespeare and popular culture Shakespeare and globalization Shakespeare and media history Shakespeare : reading on Stephen Greenblatt -- Jeff Dolven, Sean Keilen -- H.R. Woudhuysen -- Tiffany Stern -- Andrew Murphy -- Jonathan Hope -- Colin Burrow -- Stanley Wells -- Michael Neill -- Ton Hoenselaars -- Heather James -- Janette Dillon -- Claire McEachern -- Jonathan Gil Harris -- Stephen Orgel -- Anthony Dawson -- Emma Smith -- Paul Prescott -- Anston Bosman -- Katherine Rowe -- Andrew Dickson.
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 --
9780521713931 9780521886321
2009053752
GBA9C5116 bnb
015448135 Uk
PR2894.W456.N493 2010
First edition published as: Cambridge companion to Shakespeare.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Traces of Shakespeare's life Shakespeare's reading Shakespeare's writing : from manuscript to print Theatre of Shakespeare's London Transmission of Shakespeare's texts Shakespeare and language Shakespeare the poet Shakespeare's comedies Shakespeare's tragedies Shakespeare's English history plays Shakespeare's classical plays Shakespeare's tragicomedies Shakespeare, religion and politics Shakespeare and race Shakespeare, sexuality and gender Shakespeare on the stage The critical reception of Shakespeare Shakespeare and popular culture Shakespeare and globalization Shakespeare and media history Shakespeare : reading on Stephen Greenblatt -- Jeff Dolven, Sean Keilen -- H.R. Woudhuysen -- Tiffany Stern -- Andrew Murphy -- Jonathan Hope -- Colin Burrow -- Stanley Wells -- Michael Neill -- Ton Hoenselaars -- Heather James -- Janette Dillon -- Claire McEachern -- Jonathan Gil Harris -- Stephen Orgel -- Anthony Dawson -- Emma Smith -- Paul Prescott -- Anston Bosman -- Katherine Rowe -- Andrew Dickson.
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 --
9780521713931 9780521886321
2009053752
GBA9C5116 bnb
015448135 Uk
PR2894.W456.N493 2010