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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
Michael Dobson
Stanley Wells
572 pages
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numerous halftones
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276x219mm
978-0-19-280614-7
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Paperback
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24 March 2005
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This item is printed to order and supplied on a firm sale basis. Items which are printed to order are normally despatched and charged within 5-10 days.
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- covers Shakespeare worldwide and Shakespeare on film more thoroughly than any of the competition
- a wide range of short, readable entries, none longer than 3500 words, and full of surprising detail
- all Shakespeare's plays, and the sonnets, and covered in special feature entries
- also covers popular topics such as star actors, movies, and pop culture
- illustrated by over 100 stunning and illuminating b+w photographs, many from classic productions
- includes a chronology, an accessible guide to further reading, maps, and a thematic contents list
- high-profile and respected academics have checked that all the entries are authoritative and include the latest in scholarship
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work yet produced about Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to the misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favourite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, a team of internationally renowned scholars provides a lucid, stimulating, and authoritative guide to the plays, the poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Bringing its readers up to date not only with the latest in
Shakespearian scholarship and controversy but with the plays' recent incarnations on stage, on film, and in international popular culture, this is the perfect companion to Shakespeare's works, covering everything from Aaron and act divisions to Zeffirelli and Zuccaro, from Shakespeare in schools to Shakespeare in Love. Readership: Students and academics of literature, drama, and related disciplines. The general public - those who read Shakespeare as students and who go to see his plays.
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Michael Dobson, Professor of Renaissance Drama, University of Surry Roehampton Stanley Wells, Honorary President, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham 1988-97, now Emeritus ProfessorContributors:
Include:
Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Jonathan Bate, University of Liverpool
Alan Brissenden, University of Adelaide
Michael Bristol, McGill University
Jean Chothia, Selwyn
College, Cambridge
Gabriel Egan, Shakespeare's Globe
Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford
Inga-Stina Ewbank, University of Leeds
Werner Habicht, Universität Würzberg
Michael Holroyd, writer
Park Honan, University of Leeds
Dennis Kennedy, Trinity College, Dublin
Jane Kingsley Smith, University of Hull
Ania Loomba, University of Illinois at Urbana
Robert Maslen, Glasgow University
Michael Neill, University of Auckland
Stephen Orgel, Stanford University
Diane Purkiss, Keble College, Oxford
Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada
James Shapiro, Columbia University
Steve Sohmer, Lincoln College, Oxford
Zdenek Stríbrný, Charles University, Prague
Helen Vendler, Harvard University
Complete list available on request.
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"The most authoritative guide to the literary and theatrical canon that it defined." - The Times
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Thematic Listing of Entries
List of plays
Note to the reader
Oxford Companion to Shakespeare A-Z
The British Isles and France in the English Histories and Macbeth
The royal family in Shakespeare's English Histories
Shakespeare's life, works, and reception: a partial chronology
Further reading
Picture acknowledgements
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