Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies

Name: Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies
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ISBN: 9780521318419

ISBN-10: 0521318416

ISBN-13: 9780521318419

Edition: 1986

Authors: Stanley Wells

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of Shakespeare in a series of essays specially written by an international team of eminent scholars. Studies of Shakespeare's life, and of his relationship to the thought of his time, are followed by essays connecting his writings to the literary, dramatic, and theatrical conventions of his age. There are accounts of the transmission of his text, and of the theatrical and critical fortunes of his plays from his own time to ours. Particular attention is given to the twentieth century in studies of criticism, theatre history, the plays on film and television, new critical approaches, and reference…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/4/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




The life of Shakespeare




Shakespeare and the thought of his age




Shakespeare the non-dramatic poet




Shakespeare and the arts of language




Playhouses and players in the time of Shakespeare




Shakespeare And the theatrical conventions of his time




Shakespeare and the traditions of comedy




Shakespeare and the traditions of tragedy




Shakespeare's use of history




The transmission of Shakespeare's text




Shakespeare on the stage from 1660 to 1900




Critical approaches to Shakespeare from 1660 to 1904




Twentieth-century Shakespeare criticism



the comedies




the tragedies




the histories




Shakespeare on the twentieth-century stage




Shakespeare on film and television




Shakespeare and new critical approaches




Shakespeare reference books



Index