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The new Cambridge companion to Shakespeare / edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells.
| Other author | De Grazia, Margreta. |
| Other author | Wells, Stanley, 1930- |
| Other author | Cambridge University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Cambridge University Press, |
| Description | xvi, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ProQuest One Literature - U.S. Customers Only |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Cambridge Companions |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge companions to literature |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Other title | Cambridge companion to Shakespeare. |
| LCCN | 2009053752 |
| ISBN | 9780521886321 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780521713931 (pbk.) |