The Cambridge guide to the worlds of Shakespeare / general editor, Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Bruce R., 1946- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xxvii, 2031 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Guide to the worlds of Shakespeare

Worlds of Shakespeare

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare aims to replicate the expansive reach of Shakespeare's global reputation. In pursuit of that vision, this work is transhistorical, international, and interdisciplinary. "Shakespeare's World," volume one of the two volume set, maps out the physical, social, and imaginative world that Shakespeare and his contemporaries inhabited. Fourteen sections cover such fields as varied as the theatre business, science and technology, popular culture, and medicine. For each of the volume's broad subject areas, an overview article is followed by a series of shorter essays taking up particular aspects of the subject at hand. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images, this book brings the world, life, and afterlife of Shakespeare to readers, from nonacademic Shakespeare fans and students to theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Volume 1. Shakespeare's World, 1500

1660 : Part I. Mapping Shakespeare's World / Introduction by Peter Whitfield

Part II. Theater / Introduction by Andrew Gurr

Part III. Language / Introduction by David Crystal

Part IV. Science and Technology / Introduction by Pamela Long

Part V. Printing, Publishing, Textuality / Introduction by John Jowett

Part VI. Visual Arts / Introduction by Alexander Marr

Part VII. Popular Culture / Introduction by Mary Ellen Lamb

Part VIII. High Culture / Introduction by Malcolm Smuts

Part IX. England 1560

1650 / Introduction by James A. Sharpe

Part X. Religion / Introduction by Lori Anne Ferrell

Part XI. Medicine / Introduction by Mary Fissell

Part XII. The Historical William Shakespeare / Peter Holland

Part XIII. Shakespeare's Fellows / Introduction by Stanley Wells

Part XIV. Shakespeare's Early Reception (to 1660) / Introduction by Charles Whitney

Volume 2. The World's Shakespeare, 1660

Present : Part XV. International Encounters / Introduction by Ton Hoenselaars

Part XVI. Making the Scene / Introduction by Bruce R. Smith

Part XVII. Shakespeare as a Cultural Icon / Introduction by Jyotsna Singh

Part XVIII. Shakespeare and Popular Culture / Introduction by Doug Lanier

Part XIX. Translation / Introduction by Dirk Delabastita

Part XX. Changing Technologies of Stage Performance / Introduction by Shoichiro Kawai

Part XXI. Audiences / Introduction by Lori Newcomb

Part XXII. Production History / Introduction by Joseph Roach

Part XXIII. Printing and Reception History / Introduction by Andrew Murphy

Part XXIV. Shakespeare and the Book / Introduction by Georgianna Ziegler

Part XXV. Shakespeare and the Critics / Introduction by Lars Engle

Part XXVI. Shakespeare and the Performing Arts / Introduction by Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira

Part XXVII. Shakespeare and the Visual Arts / Introduction by Stuart Sillars

Part XXVIII. Shakespeare and Media History / Introduction by Katherine Rowe.

Volume I. Shakespeare's world, 1500-1660

volume II. The world's Shakespeare, 1660-present.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781107057258

1107057256

9780521113939

0521113938

9780521113946

0521113946

OCLC:

890799092