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A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV
eBook - The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
ISBN/EAN: 9780470997307
Umbreit-Nr.: 3684245
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 496 S., 2.43 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.04.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
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Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- This four-volume<i>Companion to Shakespeare's Works,</i> compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.<br /><ul><li>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.</li><li>Examines each of Shakespeares plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.</li><li>Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.</li><li>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.</li><li>Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.</li></ul><p>This companion to Shakespeares poems, problem comedies and late plays contains original essays on<i>Troilus and Cressida</i>,<i>Measure for Measure</i>,<i>All's Well That Ends Well</i>, "Venus and Adonis", "The Rape of Lucrece", and "The Sonnets", as well as<i>Pericles</i>,<i>The Winter's Tale</i>,<i>Cymbeline</i>,<i>The Tempest</i>, and<i>The Two Noble Kinsmen</i>.</p>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Jean E. Howard</b> is William E. Ransford Professor of English at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is an editor of<i>The</i><i>Norton Shakespeare,</i> and author of, among other works<i>The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England</i> (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of<i>Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories</i> (1997)<b><i>.</i></b><br /><p><b>Richard Dutton</b> is currently Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is author of<i>Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama</i>(1991) and<i>Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords</i>(2000), and editor of the<i>Palgrave Literary Lives</i> series.</p>