Format:
xvi, 360 S.
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
2nd edition
ISBN:
9780521713931
,
9780521886321
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Uniform Title:
Cambridge companion to Shakespeare
Content:
Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one brand new essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings of the plays are given in the context of genre as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume, contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a national context, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history of reception and performance --Provided by publisher
Note:
Literaturangaben
,
Auf dem Umschlag: "All essays are completely new for this updated edition"
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The new Cambridge companion to Shakespeare Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780521713931
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521886321
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
;
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
;
Aufsatzsammlung
