The new Cambridge companion to Shakespeare / edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells. [print]

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TextSeries: Cambridge companions to literaturePublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2010.Edition: second editionDescription: xvi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780521713931
9780521886321

LOC classification:

PR2894.W456.N493 2010

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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 --

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	PR2894.C33 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001465323

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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 --

First edition published as: Cambridge companion to Shakespeare.

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