The Oxford Companion To Shakespeare

Author : Michael Dobson,Stanley Wells,Will Sharpe,Erin Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191058158

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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Michael Dobson,Stanley Wells,Will Sharpe,Erin Sullivan Pdf

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this much-loved Companion has been revised and updated, reflecting developments and discoveries made in recent years and to cover the performance, interpretation, and the influence of Shakespeare's works up to the present day. First published in 2001, the online edition was revised in 2011, with updates to over 200 entries plus 16 new entries. These online updates appear in print for the first time in this second edition, along with a further 35,000 new and revised words. These include more than 80 new entries, ranging from important performers, directors, and scholars (such as Lucy Bailey, Samuel West, and Alfredo Michel Modenessi), to topics as diverse as Shakespeare in the digital age and the ubiquity of plants in Shakespeare's works, to the interpretation of Shakespeare globally, from Finland to Iraq. To make information on Shakespeare's major works easier to find, the feature entries have been grouped and placed in a centre section (fully cross-referenced from the A-Z). The thematic listing of entries - described in the press as 'an invaluable panorama of the contents' - has been updated to include all of the new entries. This edition contains a preface written by much-lauded Shakespearian actor Simon Russell Beale. Full of both entertaining trivia and scholarly detail, this authoritative Companion will delight the browser and reward students, academics, as well as anyone wanting to know more about Shakespeare.

Author : Michael Dobson,Stanley W. Wells
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192806149

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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Michael Dobson,Stanley W. Wells Pdf

Talks about Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. This work offers a coverage of different aspects of Shakespeare and his writings, including their reinterpretation in the theatre, in criticism, and on film.

Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199566105

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare by Arthur F. Kinney Pdf

Contains forty original essays.

Author : Michael Dobson,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0192802968

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Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Michael Dobson,Stanley Wells Pdf

This title includes the following features: 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, arecovered in special feature entries; also covers popular topics, such as star actors, movies, and pop culture; illustrated by well over 100 stunning, lively and varied b+w photographs; includes a chronology, an accessible guide to further reading, maps, and a thematic contents; well-known, reliableacademics have checked that all the entries are authoritative and include the latest in scholarship

Author : Gary Taylor,Gabriel Egan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192517609

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The New Oxford Shakespeare: Authorship Companion by Gary Taylor,Gabriel Egan Pdf

This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology—currently the most active and controversial debates in the field of Shakespeare editing. It presents in full the evidence behind the choices made in The Complete Works about which works Shakespeare wrote, in whole or part. A major new contribution to attribution studies, the Authorship Companion illuminates the work and methodology underpinning the groundbreaking New Oxford Shakespeare, and casts new light on the professional working practices, and creative endeavours, of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We now know that Shakespeare collaborated with his literary and dramatic contemporaries, and that others adapted his works before they reached printed publication. The Authorship Companion's essays explore and explain these processes, laying out everything we currently know about the works' authorship. Using a variety of different attribution methods, The New Oxford Shakespeare has confirmed the presence of other writers' hands in plays that until recently were thought to be Shakespeare's solo work. Taking this process further with meticulous, fresh scholarship, essays in the Authorship Companion show why we must now add new plays to the accepted Shakespeare canon and reattribute certain parts of familiar Shakespeare plays to other writers. The technical arguments for these decisions about Shakespeare's creativity are carefully laid out in language that anyone interested in the topic can understand. The latest methods for authorship attribution are explained in simple but accurate terms and all the linguistic data on which the conclusions are based is provided. The New Oxford Shakespeare consists of four interconnected publications: the Modern Critical Edition (with modern spelling), the Critical Reference Edition (with original spelling), a companion volume on Authorship, and an online version integrating all of this material on OUP's high-powered scholarly editions platform. Together, they provide the perfect resource for the future of Shakespeare studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198117353

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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Malcolm Smuts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199660841

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The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare by Robert Malcolm Smuts Pdf

This title offers literary scholars a variety of perspectives, insights and methodologies found in current historical work that inform the study of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Author : Dennis Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199574193

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The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance by Dennis Kennedy Pdf

"This Companion is a concise and updated version of The Oxford encyclopedia of theatre and performance (2 volumes, 2003)"--Pref.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 3393 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9780199591152

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The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare--an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited afresh from all the surviving original versions of his work, and drawing on the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship.This single illustrated volume is expertly edited to frame the surviving original versions of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and early musical scores around the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship to date.

Author : Peter Hainsworth,David Robey
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198183321

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature by Peter Hainsworth,David Robey Pdf

Embracing the whole of Italian literature, from the early thirteenth century to the present, The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature takes a broad view of what constitutes literature, covering historical writing, travel writing, theatre, and philosophy as well as the novel, poetry, literary dialogues, and critical theory. Providing generous coverage of canonical figures - from Dante and Petrarch to Montale and Calvino - it also contains a wealth of short entries on significant minor figures. The Companion also explores Latin literature written by Italian authors - a major feature of Renaissance culture - and Italian dialect literature; and highlights articles which place the writers and their works in their wider social, historical, artistic, and political context. The 2,400 alphabetically-arranged entries provide clear, up-to-date coverage of Italian literature, making this an essential reference for specialists and non-specialists alike. Written by expert contributors, the entries reflect the current state of international scholarship, which has developed in many different and exciting directions in recent years.

Author : Christopher R. Wilson,Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1289 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780190945145

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music by Christopher R. Wilson,Mervyn Cooke Pdf

"This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors' lines of enquiry extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is global in its scope, and includes studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the more familiar Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed by the book's team of distinguished authors embraces music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare's ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches: some investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed analyses of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the volume provides a wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music without parallel in the history of the global arts"--

Author : Margreta De Grazia,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521886321

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The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare by Margreta De Grazia,Stanley Wells Pdf

Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.

Author : Jonathan Post
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199607747

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry by Jonathan Post Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry provides the widest coverage yet of Shakespeare's poetry and its afterlife in English and other languages.

Author : Margreta de Grazia,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521658810

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare by Margreta de Grazia,Stanley Wells Pdf

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 : Stanley Wells,Sarah Stanton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052179711X

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage by Stanley Wells,Sarah Stanton Pdf

This Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through to the present day. Each relates Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns and adopts an individual approach and focus, on textual adaptation, acting, stages, scenery or theatre management. These are followed by three explorations of acting: tragic and comic actors and women performers of Shakespeare roles. A section on international performance includes chapters on interculturalism, on touring companies and on political theatre, with separate accounts of the performing traditions of North America, Asia and Africa. Over forty pictures illustrate performers and productions of Shakespeare from around the world. An amalgamated list of items for further reading completes the book.