This book offers students and teachers 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 both traditional and recently defined subjects of Shakespeare studies. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.
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"...covers a great deal of ground that simply must be covered by anyone - student or scholar - who works on Shakespeare...These are extraordinarily useful essays." Shakespeare Quarterly
"It captures the fresh excitement of current scholarship." Providence Journal
"...first-rate...powerful scholarly contributors." Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
"The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare delivers remarkably well.... all [the essays] are substantial and many explicitly invoke new approaches, attitudes, and methods.... There is, in short, some companionship for all in this timely and substantial volume." Sixteenth Century Journal
"It captures the fresh excitement of current scholarship." Providence Journal
"...first-rate...powerful scholarly contributors." Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
"The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare delivers remarkably well.... all [the essays] are substantial and many explicitly invoke new approaches, attitudes, and methods.... There is, in short, some companionship for all in this timely and substantial volume." Sixteenth Century Journal
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This book offers students and teachers 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 both traditional and recently defined subjects of Shakespeare studies. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.
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Stanley Wells, described by Roy Hattersley as "Our greatest authority on Shakespeare's life and work," is Chairman of the Trustees of Shakespeare's Birthplace, Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies of the University of Birmingham, and Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. He is the author and editor of many books including The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, 2nd Edition (OUP 2005); The Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare (OUP, 2003); and Shakespeare in the Theatre (OUP, 1997).
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SEVEN years after Shakespeare's death his former 'fellows' or colleagues published the first collected edition of his plays, the great Folio of 1623, 'only to keep the memory so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Stanley Wells, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Globe, Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare's England, University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare's English, Titus Andronicus, Drury Lane, Gary Taylor, Peter Brook, Twelfth Night, Jonathan Bate, King's Men, Passionate Pilgrim, Queen Elizabeth, Renaissance Drama, Sir Thomas New!
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SEVEN years after Shakespeare's death his former 'fellows' or colleagues published the first collected edition of his plays, the great Folio of 1623, 'only to keep the memory so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early printed texts, tiring house, first folio, colour prejudice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Stanley Wells, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Globe, Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare's England, University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare's English, Titus Andronicus, Drury Lane, Gary Taylor, Peter Brook, Twelfth Night, Jonathan Bate, King's Men, Passionate Pilgrim, Queen Elizabeth, Renaissance Drama, Sir Thomas New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Shakespeare on Screen: An International Filmography and Vidoegraphy by Kenneth S. Rothwell on 4 pages
- Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
- Much Ado about Nothing (The Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
- on page 3, page 65, and page 79
- Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 1, 1586-1914 by Simon Williams on page 197, page 264, and page 309
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- Shakespeare's Theory of Drama by Pauline Kiernan on 4 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Stanley Wells in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Richard Bales in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Janette Dillon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle by Penny Mccarthy on page 141, and Back Matter
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