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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... Stratford uponAvon, 1955. 13 The Merchant of Venice, Act3, scene 1. Shylock (Antony Sher, right) andTubal(Bill McGuirk), directed by Bill Alexander at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, StratforduponAvon (1987). 14 Theodore Komisarjevsky ...
... Stratford uponAvon, 1955. 13 The Merchant of Venice, Act3, scene 1. Shylock (Antony Sher, right) andTubal(Bill McGuirk), directed by Bill Alexander at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, StratforduponAvon (1987). 14 Theodore Komisarjevsky ...
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... Stratford 5 June 1607 Susanna Shakespeare marries John Hall 1608 the King'sMen take over the indoorBlackfriars theatre 9 September1608 burial ofMary,Shakespeare's mother, in Stratford 1609 publication of the Sonnets 1612 Shakespeare ...
... Stratford 5 June 1607 Susanna Shakespeare marries John Hall 1608 the King'sMen take over the indoorBlackfriars theatre 9 September1608 burial ofMary,Shakespeare's mother, in Stratford 1609 publication of the Sonnets 1612 Shakespeare ...
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... Stratford 25 April 1616 Shakespeare buriedinStratford (the monument recordsthat he died on 23 April) 8 August 1623 burial ofAnneShakespeare in Stratford 1623 publication of the First Folio 16 July 1649 burial of Susanna Hall in Stratford ...
... Stratford 25 April 1616 Shakespeare buriedinStratford (the monument recordsthat he died on 23 April) 8 August 1623 burial ofAnneShakespeare in Stratford 1623 publication of the First Folio 16 July 1649 burial of Susanna Hall in Stratford ...
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... Stratford) who heldlands asa tenant of Robert Arden, gentleman. Arden's daughter, Mary, inherited fifty acres when her father died in 1556, and not long after marriedJohn Shakespeare. John and Mary therefore belonged todifferent social ...
... Stratford) who heldlands asa tenant of Robert Arden, gentleman. Arden's daughter, Mary, inherited fifty acres when her father died in 1556, and not long after marriedJohn Shakespeare. John and Mary therefore belonged todifferent social ...
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Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells. John Shakespeare is first heard of in Stratford in 1552, when he was fined one shilling for building an unauthorized dunghill or muckheap in Henley Street. (In Stratford, as in London, excrement and ...
Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells. John Shakespeare is first heard of in Stratford in 1552, when he was fined one shilling for building an unauthorized dunghill or muckheap in Henley Street. (In Stratford, as in London, excrement and ...
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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