The new Cambridge companion to Shakespeare / edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells.
2010
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Title
The new Cambridge companion to Shakespeare / edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells.
Uniform title
Cambridge companion to Shakespeare.
Edition
2nd ed.
Created/published
New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010.
Description
xvi, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Associated name
De Grazia, Margreta.
Wells, Stanley, 1930-
Wells, Stanley, 1930-
Series
Cambridge companions to literature.
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.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The traces of Shakespeare's life / Stephen Greenblatt
Shakespeare's reading / Jeff Dolven, Sean Keilen
Shakespeare's writing: from manuscript to print / H. R. Woudhuysen
The theatre of Shakespeare's London / Tiffany Stern
The 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.
Shakespeare's reading / Jeff Dolven, Sean Keilen
Shakespeare's writing: from manuscript to print / H. R. Woudhuysen
The theatre of Shakespeare's London / Tiffany Stern
The 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.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State) -- New York.
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PR2894 .C33 2010