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`van Es offers a consolidation of recent thinking about Shakespeares plays as products of the collaborative milieu from which they emerged, importantly making explicit the significance of this to an appreciation of his individual writing.' Peter Kirwan, Review of English Studies `Bart Van Es's lucid and comprehensive book is in a more recent and surely more realistic counter-tradition which sees Shakespeare as pre-eminently involved: a poet at work in the daily professional context of a busy and successful theatre company.' Charles Nicholl, The Times Literary Supplement `Shakespeare in Company is a meticulous account of the institutional and economic forces that shaped the plays themselves and an acute analysis of the ways in which this shaping occurred ... This is a sensitive, erudite and intriguing study that demonstrates the inseparability of the rarefied perfections of Shakespeare's art and the day-to-day business of the entertainment industry.' Peter J. Smith, Times Higher Education `Highly recommended' F. L. Den, Choice `[An] absorbing study' The New Criterion `van Es shows that Hamlet's claim to an inner reality that lies beyond the reach of 'outward show' is made plausible to the audience through a mastery of linguistic register ... [this book offers] new and helpful ways of thinking about the most familiar works.' Michael Neill, London Review of Books

van Es shows that Hamlet's claim to an inner reality that lies beyond the reach of 'outward show' is made plausible to the audience through a mastery of linguistic register ... [this book offers] new and helpful ways of thinking about the most familiar works. * Michael Neill, London Review of Books * [An] absorbing study * The New Criterion * Highly recommended * F. L. Den, Choice * Shakespeare in Company is a meticulous account of the institutional and economic forces that shaped the plays themselves and an acute analysis of the ways in which this shaping occurred ... This is a sensitive, erudite and intriguing study that demonstrates the inseparability of the rarefied perfections of Shakespeare's art and the day-to-day business of the entertainment industry. * Peter J. Smith, Times Higher Education * Bart Van Es's lucid and comprehensive book is in a more recent and surely more realistic counter-tradition which sees Shakespeare as pre-eminently involved: a poet at work in the daily professional context of a busy and successful theatre company. * Charles Nicholl, The Times Literary Supplement * van Es offers a consolidation of recent thinking about Shakespeares plays as products of the collaborative milieu from which they emerged, importantly making explicit the significance of this to an appreciation of his individual writing. * Peter Kirwan, Review of English Studies *

van Es offers a consolidation of recent thinking about Shakespeares plays as products of the collaborative milieu from which they emerged, importantly making explicit the significance of this to an appreciation of his individual writing. Peter Kirwan, Review of English Studies Bart Van Es's lucid and comprehensive book is in a more recent and surely more realistic counter-tradition which sees Shakespeare as pre-eminently involved: a poet at work in the daily professional context of a busy and successful theatre company. Charles Nicholl, The Times Literary Supplement Shakespeare in Company is a meticulous account of the institutional and economic forces that shaped the plays themselves and an acute analysis of the ways in which this shaping occurred ... This is a sensitive, erudite and intriguing study that demonstrates the inseparability of the rarefied perfections of Shakespeare's art and the day-to-day business of the entertainment industry. Peter J. Smith, Times Higher Education Highly recommended F. L. Den, Choice [An] absorbing study The New Criterion van Es shows that Hamlet's claim to an inner reality that lies beyond the reach of 'outward show' is made plausible to the audience through a mastery of linguistic register ... [this book offers] new and helpful ways of thinking about the most familiar works. Michael Neill, London Review of Books

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Bart van Es is Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. He has previously written books on Edmund Spenser and has a special interest in the writing of history in the Renaissance. Shakespeare in Company is his first work on drama and was supported by the award of an AHRC Fellowship.

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