The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
2nd Edition
Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Editors:
- Margreta De Grazia, University of Pennsylvania
- Stanley Wells, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- Date Published: March 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521713931
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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 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.
Read more- All chapters are completely new for this second edition and include contributions from some of the world's pre-eminent Shakespeareans
- Features groundbreaking chapters on transnational Shakespeare and Shakespeare and the latest electronic media as well as fresh accounts of traditional subjects, for example genre and language
- Contains many helpful reference features including chronologies of Shakespeare's life and works, comprehensive reading lists, a lively bibliographic essay and illustrative images
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'As the introduction to this volume points out, this is the fifth volume to bear its title, and together they form a fascinating chronicle of the ways in which Shakespeare - plays, poems, person - has been addressed over these years … Like the plays themselves, the essays are enriched by cross comparison; and it is to the plays that they repeatedly return us, the most that can be asked of a companion of this order.' Cahiers Élisabéthains
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: March 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521713931
- length: 379 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.61kg
- contains: 19 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
William Shakespeare: a partial chronology
Shakespeare's works: a conjectural chronology
1. The traces of Shakespeare's life STEPHEN GREENBLATT
2. Shakespeare's reading JEFF DOLVEN and SEAN KEILEN
3. Shakespeare's writing H. R. WOUDHUYSEN
4. The theatre of Shakespeare's London TIFFANY STERN
5. Transmission of Shakespeare's texts ANDREW MURPHY
6. Shakespeare and language JONATHAN HOPE
7. Shakespeare the poet COLIN BURROW
8. Shakespeare's comedies STANLEY WELLS
9. Shakespeare's tragedies MICHAEL NEILL
10. Shakespeare's English history plays TON HOENSELAARS
11. Shakespeare's Classical plays HEATHER JAMES
12. Shakespeare's tragicomedies JANETTE DILLON
13. Shakespeare, religion and politics CLAIRE MCEACHERN
14. Shakespeare and race JONATHAN GIL HARRIS
15. Shakespeare, sex and gender STEPHEN ORGEL
16. Shakespeare's stage ANTHONY DAWSON
17. The critical reception of Shakespeare EMMA SMITH
18. Shakespeare and popular culture PAUL PRESCOTT
19. Shakespeare and globalization ANSTON BOSMAN
20. Shakespeare and media history KATHERINE ROWE
21. Shakespeare: reading on ANDREW DICKSON.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Modern American Shakespeares
- Shakespeare Comedities
- Shakespeare at the Movies
- Shakespeare: Late Works
- Shakespeare: The Career
- Shakespeare: Tragedies
- Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances
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