The new Cambridge companion to Shakespeare / edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells.
De Grazia, Margreta.; Wells, Stanley, 1930-
2010
PR2894 .C33 2010 (Mapit)
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Title The new Cambridge companion to Shakespeare / edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells.
Edition 2nd ed.
ISBN 9780521886321
0521886325
9780521713931 (pbk.)
0521713935 (pbk.)
Publication Details New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010.
Language English
Description xvi, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PR2894 .C33 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 822.3/3
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. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author De Grazia, Margreta.
Wells, Stanley, 1930-
Series Cambridge companions to literature.
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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.

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