The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare: The comedies
The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare: The comedies

Author: Joseph Rosenblum

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780313327810

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Among the most enjoyed and performed plays in the world, Shakespeare's comedies capture the spirit of his age and offer students a wealth of information about his era.

The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare: The tragedies
The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare: The tragedies

Author: Joseph Rosenblum

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780313327827

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Shakespeare's tragedies are among the most sublime and influential works ever written. But because of the themes and issues they address, they are also among the most difficult.

A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets
A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author: Michael Schoenfeldt

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-03-08

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 1444332066

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This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare’s sonnets. An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare’s sonnets. Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both established and younger scholars. Considers the form, sequence, content, literary context, editing and printing of the sonnets. Shows how the sonnets provide a mirror in which cultures can read their own critical biases. Informed by the latest theoretical, cultural and archival work.

The Definitive Shakespeare Companion
The Definitive Shakespeare Companion

Author: Joseph Rosenblum

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 144083444X

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"Written with the needs of students in mind, this four-volume set demystifies Shakespeare for today's readers and provides the necessary perspective and analysis students need to better appreciate the genius of his work. This indispensable ready reference examines Shakespeare's plots, language, and themes; his use of sources and exploration of issues important to his age; the interpretation of his works through productions from the Renaissance to the present; and the critical reaction to key questions concerning his writings. The book provides coverage of each key play and poems in discrete sections, with each section presenting summaries; discussions of themes, characters, language, and imagery; and clear explications of key passages."--Provided by publisher.

The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare
The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare

Author: Russ McDonald

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2001-02-20

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780312248802

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Providing a unique combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare introduces students to the topics most important to the study of Shakespeare in their full historical and cultural context. This new edition contains many new documents, particularly by women and other marginalized voices from the early modern period. There is also a new chapter on Shakespeare in performance, which introduces students to the great variety of productions of Shakespeare's works over the centuries.

A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II
A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II

Author: Richard Dutton

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2003-06-02

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 0631226338

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This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century. This companion to Shakespeare's histories contains original essays on every history play from Henry VI to Henry V as well as fourteen additional articles on such topics as censorship in Shakespeare's histories, the relation of Shakespeare's plays to other dramatic histories of the period, Shakespeare's histories on film, the homoerotics of Shakespeare's history plays, and nation formation in Shakespeare's histories.

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Author: Margreta De Grazia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-03-25

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1107495482

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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 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.