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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... play deservesacommentary 'aswellas the best comedyin Terence or Plautus'. The friends whopublishedthe Folioloved and admired the man as well as hisworks. Ben Jonson contributed a poem'to the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William ...
... play deservesacommentary 'aswellas the best comedyin Terence or Plautus'. The friends whopublishedthe Folioloved and admired the man as well as hisworks. Ben Jonson contributed a poem'to the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William ...
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... (play books, playclothes, properties); (2) 'householder', one of the owners orleaseholders of the Globe and Blackfriars theatres; (3) dramatist;(4)actor. Other dramatists were paid from £6 to £12 perplay,prices that were clearly ...
... (play books, playclothes, properties); (2) 'householder', one of the owners orleaseholders of the Globe and Blackfriars theatres; (3) dramatist;(4)actor. Other dramatists were paid from £6 to £12 perplay,prices that were clearly ...
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... play based on King John and not the source of Shakespeare's play, the dates of most of theearly playswould havetobe changed. Fortunately FrancisMeres published,in 1598,alist of twelve of Shakespeare's plays (including one called Love's ...
... play based on King John and not the source of Shakespeare's play, the dates of most of theearly playswould havetobe changed. Fortunately FrancisMeres published,in 1598,alist of twelve of Shakespeare's plays (including one called Love's ...
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... play (1601?) Will Kempe says 'O that BenJonson isapestilent fellow, hebroughtup Horace giving the poets apill[in Poetaster], butourfellow Shakespeare hath givenhimapurge that made him beray [foul] hiscredit [i.e. shit himself].' Jonson ...
... play (1601?) Will Kempe says 'O that BenJonson isapestilent fellow, hebroughtup Horace giving the poets apill[in Poetaster], butourfellow Shakespeare hath givenhimapurge that made him beray [foul] hiscredit [i.e. shit himself].' Jonson ...
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... play's quartoprinting, andusing theFirst (rather thanthe Fourth) Folio when a play was firstprinted there or when,in the case ofaplay with distinct quarto and Folio printings,he deemed theFolio text the betterof the two. The ...
... play's quartoprinting, andusing theFirst (rather thanthe Fourth) Folio when a play was firstprinted there or when,in the case ofaplay with distinct quarto and Folio printings,he deemed theFolio text the betterof the two. The ...
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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