TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Grazia,Margreta
AU  - Wells,Stanley
TI  - The new Cambridge companion to Shakespeare
T2  - Cambridge companions to authors
SN  - 9780521886321 (hardback)
AV  - PR2894. C33 2010
U1  - 822.3/3 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Shakespeare, William,
KW  - Shakespeare, William.
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - swd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Traces of Shakespeare's life / Stephen Greenblatt -- Shakespeare's reading / Jeff Dolven, Sean Keilen -- Shakespeare's writing: from manuscript to print / H. R. Woudhuysen -- Theatre of Shakespeare's London / Tiffany Stern -- Transmission of Shakespeare's texts / Andrew Murphy -- Shakespeare and language / Jonathan Hope -- Shakespeare the poet / Colin Burrow -- Shakespeare's comedies / Stanley Wells -- Shakespeare's tragedies / Michael Neill -- Shakespeare's English history plays / Ton Hoenselaars -- Shakespeare's classical plays / Heather James -- Shakespeare's tragicomedies / Janette Dillon -- Shakespeare, religion and politics / Claire McEachern -- Shakespeare and race / Jonathan Gil Harris -- Shakespeare, sexuality and gender / Stephen Orgel -- Shakespeare on the stage / Anthony Dawson -- The critical reception of Shakespeare / Emma Smith -- Shakespeare and popular culture / Paul Prescott -- Shakespeare and globalization / Anston Bosman -- Shakespeare and media history / Katherine Rowe -- Shakespeare: reading on / Andrew Dickson
N2  - Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one brand new essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings of the plays are given in the context of genre as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume, contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a national context, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history of reception and performance --Provided by publisher
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