Overview
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work yet produced about Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to the misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favourite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, a team of internationally renowned scholars provides a lucid, stimulating, and authoritative guide to the plays, the poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Bringing its readers up to date not only with the latest in Shakespearian scholarship and controversy but with the plays' most recent incarnations on stage, on film, and in international popular culture, this is the perfect companion to Shakespeare's works, covering everything from Aaron and act divisions to Zeffirelli and Zuccaro, and from Shakespeare in schools to Shakespeare in Love.
Full Product Details
Author: Michael Dobson ,
Stanley W. Wells
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 21.90cm
, Height: 3.90cm
, Length: 27.60cm
Weight: 2.250kg
ISBN: 9780198117353
ISBN 10: 0198117353
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 01 November 2001
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
It is difficult to think of a topic that is not touched upon in this new handbook....Its embrace of all things Shakespearean makes this volume a necessity for academic and public libraries. --Booklist [STARRED REVIEW] Heavy and oversized, but it's also packed with more than 3,000 entries on the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare., .A gift of scholarship and entertainment. --Chicago Tribune Written to complement rather than critique the works of Shakespeare, this erudite but immensely readable volume is an essential addition to the Oxford Shakespeare....Authoritative yet succinct, this belongs in any library serving Shakespeare students and scholars. --Library Journal<br> The volume's greatest strength is the detailed attention given to the evolution of Shakespeare as literary giant and cultural icon over four centuries. --Choice For loads of hard information on Shakespeare's canon, this well-illustrated, encyclopedic reference book offers play synopses, critical analysis, and much more for the Bard buff. --Seattle Times A diverse collection of information not only on the man and his plays, but on performers and directors, and works as exhibited in varied media. --Charleston Post & Courier<br> A virtual Baedeker to Shakespeare country! --Providence Journal The encyclopedia is inexpensive for such a useful and handsome volume. --American Reference Book Annual 2002<br>
Author Information
Michael Dobson is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the University of Surrey Roehampton. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Harvard University, and Oxford. Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Professor of Shakespeare Studies Emeritus, and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He has been the general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare since 1978.
