The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
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.
- 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
Reviews & endorsements
'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
Product details
March 2010Paperback
9780521713931
379 pages
228 × 152 × 17 mm
0.61kg
19 b/w illus.
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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.
