A companion to Shakespeare
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A companion to Shakespeare
(Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 3)
Blackwell Publishers, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780631206651
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This "Companion to Shakespeare" is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, indeed for anyone with an interest in his plays. It offers a remarkably innovative and comprehensive picture of the theatrical, literary, intellectual, and social worlds in which Shakespeare wrote and in which his plays were produced. The newly commissioned essays, written by the most distinguished historians and literary scholars working today (including Ian Archer, David Bevington, Michael Bristol, David Daniell, Richard Dutton, Andrew Gurr, Jean Howard, Roslyn Knutson, and Peter Lake), represent the very best of modern scholarship. Each individual essay stands as an authoritative account of the state of knowledge in its field, and in their totality the essays provide a new and compelling portrait of the historical conditions, both imaginative and institutional, that enabled (and in some cases inhibited) Shakespeare's great art.
Including essays on the organization and regulation of Elizabethan playing, on the printing, publication, and circulation of the play-texts, on Shakespeare's reading, on religion and political thought in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England, and on the linguistic and literary environment in which he wrote, the Companion to Shakespeare remarkably allows us to see Shakespeare anew by restoring his artistry to the rich interactions of the historical world in which he worked and flourished. The lucid, engaging, and authoritative essays in this imaginatively conceived collection will definitively change the ways in which we read, see, and perform Shakespeare's plays.
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors.Part I: Introduction:1. Shakespeare and the 'Elements' he lived in: David Scott Kastan.Part II: Shakespeare I:2. Shakespeare the Man: David Bevington.Part III: Living:3. Shakespeare's England: Norman L. Jones.4. Shakespeare's London: Ian Archer.5. Religious Identities in Shakespeare's England: Peter Lake.6. The Family and the Household: Susan Dwyer Amussen.7. Shakespeare and Political Thought: Martin Dzelzainis.8. Political Culture: David Harris Sacks.Part IV: Reading:9.'The Great Variety of Readers' and Early Modern Reading Practices: Heidi Brayman Hackel.10. Reading the Bible: David Daniell.11. Reading the Classics: Robert L. Miola.12. Reading History: D. R. Woolf.13. Reading Vernacular literature: Diana E. Henderson and James Siemon.Part V: Writing:14. Professional Playwrighting: Scott McMillin.15. Shakespeare's 'Native English': Jonathan Hope.16. Hearing Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse: George T. Wright.17. Shakespeare and Rhetorical Culture: Peter G. Platt.18. Shakespeare and Genre: Jean E. Howard.Part VI: Playing:19. The Economics of Playing: William Ingram.20. The Chamberlain's-King's Men: S.P. Cerasano.21 Shakespeare's Repertory: Roslyn L. Knutson.22. Shakespeare's Playhouses: Andrew Gurr.23. Licensing and Censorship: Richard Dutton.Part VII: Printing:24. Shakespeare in Print, 1593-1640: Thomas L. Berger and Jesse M. Lander.25.'Precious Few': English Manuscript Playbooks: William B. Long.26. The Craft of Printing (1600): Laurie E. Maguire.27. The London Book-trade in 1600: Mark Bland.28. Liberty, License and Authority: Press Censorship and Shakespeare: Cyndia Susan Clegg.Part VIII: Shakespeare II:29. Shakespeare: the Myth: Michael D. Bristol.Index.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631218784
Description
A Companion to Shakespeare is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, indeed for anyone with an interest in his plays.
Contains 28 newly commissioned essays written by the most distinguished historians and literary scholars
Situates Shakespeare in the historical and cultural conditions in which he wrote
Table of Contents
Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Part One Introduction
Part Two Shakespeare I
Part Three Living
Part Four Reading
Part Five Writing
Part Six Playing
Part Seven Printing
Part Eight Shakespeare II
Index 503
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