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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... The first, entitled A Companion to Shakespeare Studies and edited jointly by Harley Granville Barker and G. B. Harrison, appeared in 1934; all the contributors were British withthepossible exceptionofT. S. Eliot, who contributed asurvey ...
... The first, entitled A Companion to Shakespeare Studies and edited jointly by Harley Granville Barker and G. B. Harrison, appeared in 1934; all the contributors were British withthepossible exceptionofT. S. Eliot, who contributed asurvey ...
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... the First Folio 16 July 1649 burial of Susanna Hall in Stratford 9 February1662 burial ofJudith Quiney in Stratford 1670 death of Shakespeare's last direct descendant, his grand daughterElizabeth, who married Thomas Nash in 1626 and ...
... the First Folio 16 July 1649 burial of Susanna Hall in Stratford 9 February1662 burial ofJudith Quiney in Stratford 1670 death of Shakespeare's last direct descendant, his grand daughterElizabeth, who married Thomas Nash in 1626 and ...
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... the first collected edition of his plays, the great Folio of 1623, 'only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare'. Our Shakespeare! The phrase, which has reechoed down the centuries,was probably ...
... the first collected edition of his plays, the great Folio of 1623, 'only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare'. Our Shakespeare! The phrase, which has reechoed down the centuries,was probably ...
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... W. H. transposed?). Recent biographers have favoured William Herbert, later theEarlof Pembrokeand dedicateeof the First Folio, inmy viewcorrectly.This W. H., bornin 1580, wasfor many years a generous patron of Ben Jonson, and there.
... W. H. transposed?). Recent biographers have favoured William Herbert, later theEarlof Pembrokeand dedicateeof the First Folio, inmy viewcorrectly.This W. H., bornin 1580, wasfor many years a generous patron of Ben Jonson, and there.
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... son, contributed verses to the First Folio and a longer memorial poem printed later (1640). He reveredShakespeare themanand the 'fireand feeling' ofhisplays. Be sure, our Shakespeare, thou canst never die, But, crowned.
... son, contributed verses to the First Folio and a longer memorial poem printed later (1640). He reveredShakespeare themanand the 'fireand feeling' ofhisplays. Be sure, our Shakespeare, thou canst never die, But, crowned.
Contents
Thereproduction ofShakespeares texts BARBARA A MOWAT | |
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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