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Bedford Companion to Shakespeare An Introduction with Documents

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ISBN-10: 0312248806

ISBN-13: 9780312248802

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Russ McDonald

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Book details

List price: $58.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 2/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.32" wide x 9.18" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Preface
To the Reader
Introduction
Shakespeare in Our Time
The Uses of a Companion
The Illustrations and Documents
Three Troublesome Topics: Terminology, Modernization, and Money
A Final Word
Shakespeare, "Shakespeare," and the Problem of Authorship
Early Life
London: The First Decade
London: Maturity
Retirement
The Anti-Stratfordians
What Is an Author?
Illustrations and Documents
The House Known as Shakespeare's Birthplace
Record of Shakespeare's Baptism
Map of Stratford-upon-Avon (Eighteenth Century)
From Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury
A Plague Bill
The Royal License for Shakespeare's Company
Detail from the "Agas" Map of London (With Shakespeare's Lodging Indicated)
Vicar of Stratford, From His Diary
"To What End Are All These Words?": Shakespeare's Dramatic Language
Early Modern English
Rhetoric
Wordplay
The Forms of Dramatic Language
Language as Theme
Illustrations and Documents
From the Foreword to the Third Edition of the Latin New Testament
From The Art of Rhetoric
From Musophilis
From The Schoolmaster
From The Art of Reason
From The Art of English Poesy
From The Book of the Courtier
Of the Vanity of Words (Tr. John Florio)
Chart of the Relative Proportions of Poetry and Prose in Shakespeare's Plays
Theater �  la Mode: Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama