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The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

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Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells
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Cambridge University Press, Mar 25, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 360 pages
"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.
  

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User Review  - Laura Jackson - Goodreads

This was on my required set list for my uni course on Shakespeare. It was a good starter. I liked how they broke up the genres and had a seperate chapter on each. The writing was small though :D Read full review

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User Review  - Aingheal Apryll - Goodreads

Some fascinating chapters, some less (depending on your field of interest)... Overall an interesting read, with well-documented details and clearly indicated sources. Read full review

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Contents

Shakespeares reading
15
from manuscript to print
31
The theatre of Shakespeares London
45
The transmission of Shakespeares texts
61
Shakespeare and language
77
Shakespeare the poet
91
Shakespeares comedies
105
Shakespeares tragedies
121
Shakespeare religion and politics
185
Shakespeare and race
201
Shakespeare sexuality and gender
217
Shakespeare on the stage
233
The critical reception of Shakespeare
253
Shakespeare and popular culture
269
Shakespeare and globalization
285
Shakespeare and media history
303

Shakespeares English history plays
137
Shakespeares classical plays
153
Shakespeares tragicomedies
169
reading on
325
Index
343
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About the author (2010)

Margreta de Grazia is the Sheli Z. and Burt X. Rosenberg Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Trustees of Shakespeare's Birthplace and Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham.

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