The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare / edited by Margreta de Grazia and Stanley Wells.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Grazia, Margreta.

Wells, Stanley, 1930-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xx, 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Companion to Shakespeare

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare. An international team of prominent scholars provides a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work.

Contents:

A conjectural chronology of Shakespeare's works xix

1 Shakespeare's life / Ernst Honigmann 1

2 The reproduction of Shakespeare's texts / Barbara A. Mowat 13

3 What did Shakespeare read? / Leonard Barkan 31

4 Shakespeare and the craft of language / Margreta de Grazia 49

5 Shakespeare's poems / John Kerrigan 65

6 The genres of Shakespeare's plays / Susan Snyder 83

7 Playhouses, players, and playgoers in Shakespeare's time / John H. Astington 99

8 The London scene: City and Court / Anne Barton 115

9 Gender and sexuality in Shakespeare / Valerie Traub 129

10 Outsiders in Shakespeare's England / Ania Loomba 147

11 Shakespeare and English history / David Scott Kastan 167

12 Shakespeare in the theatre, 1660-1900 / Lois Potter 183

13 Shakespeare in the twentieth-century theatre / Peter Holland 199

14 Shakespeare and the cinema / Russell Jackson 217

15 Shakespeare on the page and the stage / Michael Dobson 235

16 Shakespeare worldwide / Dennis Kennedy 251

17 Shakespeare criticism, 1600-1900 / Hugh Grady 265

18 Shakespeare criticism in the twentieth century / R. S. White 279

19 Shakespeare reference books / Dieter Mehl 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521650941

0521658810

OCLC:

44777325