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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 31
Page
... authority of Heminges and Condell as contemporaries and fellowactors with Shakespeare, their claimsabout Shakespeare'stexts provided a kind of touchstone, thougha changing one, for editors and textual critics from Pope (1721)
... authority of Heminges and Condell as contemporaries and fellowactors with Shakespeare, their claimsabout Shakespeare'stexts provided a kind of touchstone, thougha changing one, for editors and textual critics from Pope (1721)
Page
... authority superiorto,oreven as greatas, the readings of the text from which they differ. 6 McKerrow's thesisabout eighteenthcentury editorial theory and practice wasexemplified and articulated byLewis Theobald, perhaps the first great ...
... authority superiorto,oreven as greatas, the readings of the text from which they differ. 6 McKerrow's thesisabout eighteenthcentury editorial theory and practice wasexemplified and articulated byLewis Theobald, perhaps the first great ...
Page
... authority. For editors of classical manuscripts in theeighteenth century, such aprocedure was proper: any given manuscript recension that survivedinto the eighteenthcentury might be considered as representinga distinct manuscript line ...
... authority. For editors of classical manuscripts in theeighteenth century, such aprocedure was proper: any given manuscript recension that survivedinto the eighteenthcentury might be considered as representinga distinct manuscript line ...
Page
... authority ofthequarto printings of Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and their fellowswere proclaimed and defended.23 Simultaneously, andagain following on Honigmann's 1965 suggestion,StephenOrgel attacked the paradigmat yet another ...
... authority ofthequarto printings of Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and their fellowswere proclaimed and defended.23 Simultaneously, andagain following on Honigmann's 1965 suggestion,StephenOrgel attacked the paradigmat yet another ...
Page
... thepoem that introduces the FirstFolio, possessevery kind of precedenceand authority: Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of Thereproduction ofShakespeare's texts BARBARA A MOWAT What did Shakespeare read?
... thepoem that introduces the FirstFolio, possessevery kind of precedenceand authority: Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of Thereproduction ofShakespeare's texts BARBARA A MOWAT What did Shakespeare read?
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 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actors Adonis andthe asthe atthe audience authority Bibliography bythe Cambridge Companion Cambridge University Press Cambridge UniversityPress characters Chronicles Clarendon Press classical comedy contemporary Coriolanus Cressida criticism cultural Cymbeline drama dramatist early modern edited editors Elizabethan England English Essays example Falstaff film Folio fromthe gender Hamlet Heminges Henry history plays inthe John Jonson Juliet King Lear King’s language Latin literary London Lucrece Macbeth manuscript Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night’s Dream nation neoclassicism nineteenthcentury ofhis ofthe onthe Othello Oxford performance play’s playhouse playwright poems poet political printed production quartos Rape of Lucrece readers Renaissance rhetoric Richard Richard III romantic Routledge scene sexual Shakespeare’s plays Shakespeare’s texts Shakespearian Sonnets stage Stratford StratforduponAvon Tempest textual thatthe theatre theatrical thefirst theplay thetheatre Titus Andronicus tobe tothe tradition tragedy translation Troilus Troilus and Cressida twentieth century William Shakespeare Winter’s Tale withthe women words writing York