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Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107098787
An international team of scholars covers every aspect of one of the most famous books in the English language.
Author : Margreta de Grazia,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521658810
This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191069284
This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of their place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers new ways to understand Shakespeare's reception and the history of the book. Unlike previous scholarly investigations of the First Folio, it is not concerned with the discussions of how the book came into being, the provenance of its texts, or the technicalities of its production. Instead, it reanimates, in narrative style, the histories of this book, paying close attention to the details of individual copies now located around the world - their bindings, marginalia, general condition, sales history, and location - to discuss five major themes: owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. This is a history of the book that consolidated Shakespeare's posthumous reputation: a reception history and a study of interactions between owners, readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, booksellers, and the book through which we understand and recognize Shakespeare.
Author : Catherine M. S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521881784
In this book, leading international Shakespeare scholars consider the significant characteristics of Shakespeare's last plays and place them in their Jacobean context.
Author : Margreta De Grazia,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521886321
Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1851245987
A revised and updated edition of Shakespeare's First Folio that explains the significance of the iconic publication. The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio offers the first comprehensive biography of the earliest collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. In November 1623, the book arrived in the bookshop of the London publisher Edward Blount at the Black Bear. Long in the making, Master William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies--as the First Folio was then known--appeared seven years after Shakespeare's death. Nearly one thousand pages in length, the collection comprised thirty-six plays, half of which had never been previously published. Yet no fanfare surrounded the initial publication of Shakespeare's First Folio--no queue of eager readers, no launch to the top of the best-seller list. Nevertheless, it is hard to overstate the importance of this literary, cultural, and commercial moment. Emma Smith tells the story of the First Folio's origins, locating it within the social and political context of Jacobean London and bringing in the latest scholarship on the seventeenth-century book trade. Generously illustrated in color with key pages from the publication and comparative works, this new edition combines the 2016 discovery of a hitherto unknown edition of the First Folio at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute with the human, artistic, economic and technical stories of the birth of this landmark publication--and the birth of Shakespeare's towering reputation.
Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108421164
Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.
Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107470132
This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in criticism. Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespeare's tragedies, cultural backgrounds, sub-genres and receptions of the plays. The book examines the four major tragedies and, in addition, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. Essays from the first edition have been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship; the bibliography has been extensively updated; and four new chapters have been added, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare's tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion.
Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107495029
This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.
Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521775396
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women's roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. The Companion offers a full bibliography, genealogical tables, and a list of principal and recurrent characters. It is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and theatre-goers alike.
Author : A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521767545
This Companion is devoted to the life and works of Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights in early modern London.
Author : Ton Hoenselaars
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494336
While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford, this book devotes particular attention to their personal and professional relationships, occupational rivalries and collaborations. Overturning the popular misconception that Shakespeare wrote in isolation, it offers a new perspective on the most impressive body of drama in the history of the English stage.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521418186
In this quarto edition the text is accompanied by a collation of variant readings and substantial textual notes.
Author : Raymond Crompton Rhodes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031213138
Author : Jane Kingsley-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107170650
An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.