The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists
Author: A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521767547

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This Companion is devoted to the life and works of Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights in early modern London.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists
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While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. This Companion introduces the distinctive drama of playwrights from Shakespeare's time, including Kyd, Marlowe, Middleton, Jonson and Webster. The book also covers Shakespeare as a collaborator and the difficult question of co-authorship.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists
Author: Ton Hoenselaars
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107494338

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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.

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
Author: Margreta De Grazia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2010-03-25
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521886325

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

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race
Author: Ayanna Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108623298

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus on the concepts of sexuality, lineage, nationality, and globalization. The collection helps students to grapple with the unique role performance plays in constructions of race by Shakespeare (and in Shakespearean performances), considering both historical and contemporary actors and directors. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race will be the first book that truly frames Shakespeare studies and early modern race studies for a non-specialist, student audience.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
Author: Margreta de Grazia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2001-04-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521658812

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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.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage
Author: Stanley Wells
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2002-05-30
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521797115

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This 2002 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 peformers and productions of Shakespeare from around the world. An amalgamated list of items for further reading completes the book.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
Author: David Loewenstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108681522

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Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about the topic of war. Contributors explore the multiplicity of conflicting perspectives his dramas offer: war depicted from chivalric, masculine, nationalistic, and imperial perspectives; war depicted as a source of great excitement and as a theater of honor; war depicted from realistic or skeptical perspectives that expose the butchery, suffering, illness, famine, degradation, and havoc it causes. The essays in this volume examine the representations and rhetoric of war throughout Shakespeare's plays, as well as the modern history of the war plays on stage, in film, and in propaganda. This book offers fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's multifaceted representations of the complexities of early modern warfare, while at the same time illuminating why his perspectives on war and its consequences continue to matter now and in the future.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion
Author: Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107172594

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A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture
Author: Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2007-06-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521844290

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This book offers a collection of essays on Shakespeare's life and works in popular forms and media.