Shakespeare

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ISBN: 9780199245222

ISBN-10: 0199245223

ISBN-13: 9780199245222

Edition: 2002

Authors: Stanley Wells, Lena Cowen Orlin

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Edited by Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin, Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide provides a practical and stimulating guide to all aspects of Shakespeare studies. The volume comprises over 40 specially commissioned essays by an outstanding team of Shakespeare scholars; each essay is written in an accessible and engaging style, and is followed by annotated suggestions for further reading. The volume is divided into four key parts, which as a whole offer a valuable balance of factual and critical content. In the first Part, chapters provide information about and discuss Shakespeare, the theatres of his time, the society in which he lived, the language of his period, the conventions of playwriting,…

Book details

List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 744
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.784
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of contributors



Shakespeare's life and times



Why study Shakespeare?




Shakespeare's life and career




Theatre in London




Shakespeare's audiences




Conventions of playwriting




Shakespeare's fellow dramatists




The language of Shakespeare




Shakespeare's verse




The society of Shakespeare's England




Daily life in town and country




Love, sex, and marriage




Changing attitudes towards religion




Ideas of order




Shakespeare's view of the world




Shakespearian genres



Introduction




Romantic comedies



Reading: Twelfth Night, or What You Will



English history plays



Reading: Henry V



Tragedies



Reading: Macbeth



Roman plays



Reading: Julius Caesar



Romances



Reading: The Winter's Tale



Comical and tragical



Reading: Measure for Measure



Non-dramatic poetry



Reading: Shakespeare's sonnets



Unfamiliar Shakespeare




Shakespeare criticism



The critical tradition




Humanist interpretations



Reading: King Lear



Character criticism



Reading: Hamlet



Source study



Reading: As You Like It



Close reading



Reading: Richard III



Feminist criticism



Reading: Othello



Studies in sexuality



Reading: The Merchant of Venice



Psychoanalytic criticisms



Reading: Venus and Adonis



Materialist criticisms



Reading: Henry IV Part One



Post-colonial criticism



Reading: The Tempest



Deconstruction



Reading: Romeo and Juliet



Performance history: Shakespeare on the stage, 1660-2001



Reading: A Midsummer Night's Dream



Performance criticism



Reading: The Taming of the Shrew



Shakespeare's afterlife



Introduction




Shakespeare published




Shakespeare and the modern British theatre




Shakespeare on film and video




The question of authorship




Shakespeare's influence




Shakespeare and translation




Commemorating Shakespeare




Internet and CD ROM resources



Chronology


Index