The Cambridge Companion to ShakespeareMargreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells Cambridge University Press, 2001 M04 5 This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay. |
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Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells. 1. ERNST HONIGMANN. Shakespeare's. life. S. EVEN years after Shakespeare's death his former 'fellows' or colleagues published the first collected edition of his plays, the great Folio of 1623, 'only to ...
Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells. 1. ERNST HONIGMANN. Shakespeare's. life. S. EVEN years after Shakespeare's death his former 'fellows' or colleagues published the first collected edition of his plays, the great Folio of 1623, 'only to ...
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... plays by boys was recommended by forwardlooking schoolmasters). If so, it ... Shakespeare, aged 18, wouldhave preferred nottomarry Anne Hathaway, aged 26. It ... Shakespeare's great popularity.In his Groat's Worthof Wit Robert Greene ...
... plays by boys was recommended by forwardlooking schoolmasters). If so, it ... Shakespeare, aged 18, wouldhave preferred nottomarry Anne Hathaway, aged 26. It ... Shakespeare's great popularity.In his Groat's Worthof Wit Robert Greene ...
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... Shakespeare.Burbage was agiftedtragic actor, Kempe an outstanding clown, and ... Shakespeare's business acumen must have been quite exceptional. In the ... plays were hiscompany's most precious asset, and might have demanded much ...
... Shakespeare.Burbage was agiftedtragic actor, Kempe an outstanding clown, and ... Shakespeare's business acumen must have been quite exceptional. In the ... plays were hiscompany's most precious asset, and might have demanded much ...
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... plays. The order in which he wrote the plays is now pretty well agreed. Yet 'internal' or stylistic evidence and 'external' evidence (references to plays in dateable documents, or references in plays to historical events) give us very ...
... plays. The order in which he wrote the plays is now pretty well agreed. Yet 'internal' or stylistic evidence and 'external' evidence (references to plays in dateable documents, or references in plays to historical events) give us very ...
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... Shakespeare's life remain unsolved: I mention interesting possibilities, but do not regard them as certainties. And it does not follow that, if Shakespeare was brought up as a Catholic (a possibility), the plays we know were written by ...
... Shakespeare's life remain unsolved: I mention interesting possibilities, but do not regard them as certainties. And it does not follow that, if Shakespeare was brought up as a Catholic (a possibility), the plays we know were written by ...
Contents
LEONARD BARKAN 4 Shakespeare andthecraftof language | |
Shakespeares poems | |
The genresof Shakespearesplays SUSAN SNYDER | |
City and Court | |
Gender and sexualityin Shakespeare | |
Shakespeare and English history DAVID SCOTTKASTAN 12 Shakespeare in the theatre 16601900 | |
Shakespeare on the page and the stage | |
Shakespeare worldwide | |
Shakespeare criticism 16001900 | |
HUGH GRADY 18 Shakespeare criticismin the twentieth century | |
Index | |
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