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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... theatrical career? The grasshoppercallsthe ant 'old acquaintance', which supports the view that hehadbeen around in thetheatrical world forsome years, i.e.had madean 'early start' (1586 or 1587), nota'late start' (1590). The late start ...
... theatrical career? The grasshoppercallsthe ant 'old acquaintance', which supports the view that hehadbeen around in thetheatrical world forsome years, i.e.had madean 'early start' (1586 or 1587), nota'late start' (1590). The late start ...
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... theatrical world. Francis Langley, the owner of the Swan theatre, claimed 'suretiesof thepeace' (i.e. theprotection ofthe law) against William Gardiner, a Southwark JP, and William Wayte; Wayte then claimed 'sureties' against William ...
... theatrical world. Francis Langley, the owner of the Swan theatre, claimed 'suretiesof thepeace' (i.e. theprotection ofthe law) against William Gardiner, a Southwark JP, and William Wayte; Wayte then claimed 'sureties' against William ...
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... theatrical and scribal manuscripts. The bookkeeper, according to Long,infact made veryfewchanges to extant authorial or scribal manuscripts, and socalled 'promptbooks' are thusinno way regularized, asGreg hadclaimed they were (Long ...
... theatrical and scribal manuscripts. The bookkeeper, according to Long,infact made veryfewchanges to extant authorial or scribal manuscripts, and socalled 'promptbooks' are thusinno way regularized, asGreg hadclaimed they were (Long ...
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... theatrical company. They have alsoexperienced quite separate fortunes in criticism. The classical predecessors, as we have seen, are launchedin the very earliesttexts promulgating Shakespeare, whileinlatertimes they contribute to ...
... theatrical company. They have alsoexperienced quite separate fortunes in criticism. The classical predecessors, as we have seen, are launchedin the very earliesttexts promulgating Shakespeare, whileinlatertimes they contribute to ...
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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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