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Book Synopsis
This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare''s Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.
  • Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
  • Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.
  • Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.
  • Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.
  • Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of

    Table of Contents
    Notes on Contributors.

    Introduction.

    1. Shakespeare s Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception Hisotry: Bruce R. Smith.

    2. The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid s Metamorphoses in Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis: Dympna Callaghan.

    3. Shakespeare s Problem Plays and the Drama of His Time: Troilus and Cressida, Alls Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure: Paul Yachnin.

    4. The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeares Theatre: Bruce Boehrer.

    5. Hymeneal Blood, Interchangeable Women, and the Early Modern Marriage Economy in Measure for Measure and Alls Well That Ends Well: Theodora A. Jankowski.

    6. Varieties of Collaboration in Shakespeares Problem Plays and Late Plays: John Jowett.

    7. What s in a Name? Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy: Barbara A. Mowat.

    8. Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher: Russ McDonald.

    9. Place and Space in Three Late Plays: John Gillies.

    10. The Politics and Technology of Spectacle in the Late Plays: David M. Bergeron.

    11. The Tempest in Performance: Diana E. Henderson.

    12. What It Feels Like For a Boy: Shakespeare s Venus and Adonis: Richard Rambuss.

    13. Publishing Shame: The Rape of Lucrece: Copplia Kahn.

    14. The Sonnets: Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeares Two Loves: Valerie Traub.

    15. The Two-Party System in Troilus and Cressida: Linda Charnes.

    16. Opening Doubts Upon the Law: Measure for Measure: Karen Cunningham.

    17. Doctor She. Healing and Sex in All s Well That Ends Well: Barbara Howard Traister.

    18. You not your child well loving . Text and Family Structure in Pericles: Suzanne Gossett.

    19. Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators . Iconomachy and The Winters Tale: Marion O Connor.

    20. Cymbeline: Patriotism and Performance: Valerie Wayne.

    21. Meaner Ministers : Mastery, Bondage, and Theatrical Labor in The Tempest: Daniel Vitkus.

    22. Queens and the Structure of History in Henry VIII: Susan Frye.

    23. Mixed Messages: The Aesthetics of The Two Noble Kinsmen: Julie Sanders.

    Index.

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 08/05/2003
      ISBN13: 9780631226352, 978-0631226352
      ISBN10: 0631226354
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare''s Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.
      • Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
      • Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.
      • Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.
      • Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.
      • Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of

        Table of Contents
        Notes on Contributors.

        Introduction.

        1. Shakespeare s Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception Hisotry: Bruce R. Smith.

        2. The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid s Metamorphoses in Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis: Dympna Callaghan.

        3. Shakespeare s Problem Plays and the Drama of His Time: Troilus and Cressida, Alls Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure: Paul Yachnin.

        4. The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeares Theatre: Bruce Boehrer.

        5. Hymeneal Blood, Interchangeable Women, and the Early Modern Marriage Economy in Measure for Measure and Alls Well That Ends Well: Theodora A. Jankowski.

        6. Varieties of Collaboration in Shakespeares Problem Plays and Late Plays: John Jowett.

        7. What s in a Name? Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy: Barbara A. Mowat.

        8. Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher: Russ McDonald.

        9. Place and Space in Three Late Plays: John Gillies.

        10. The Politics and Technology of Spectacle in the Late Plays: David M. Bergeron.

        11. The Tempest in Performance: Diana E. Henderson.

        12. What It Feels Like For a Boy: Shakespeare s Venus and Adonis: Richard Rambuss.

        13. Publishing Shame: The Rape of Lucrece: Copplia Kahn.

        14. The Sonnets: Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeares Two Loves: Valerie Traub.

        15. The Two-Party System in Troilus and Cressida: Linda Charnes.

        16. Opening Doubts Upon the Law: Measure for Measure: Karen Cunningham.

        17. Doctor She. Healing and Sex in All s Well That Ends Well: Barbara Howard Traister.

        18. You not your child well loving . Text and Family Structure in Pericles: Suzanne Gossett.

        19. Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators . Iconomachy and The Winters Tale: Marion O Connor.

        20. Cymbeline: Patriotism and Performance: Valerie Wayne.

        21. Meaner Ministers : Mastery, Bondage, and Theatrical Labor in The Tempest: Daniel Vitkus.

        22. Queens and the Structure of History in Henry VIII: Susan Frye.

        23. Mixed Messages: The Aesthetics of The Two Noble Kinsmen: Julie Sanders.

        Index.

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