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 the twenty-first century.
This companion to Shakespeare’s poems, problem comedies and late plays contains original essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well, ’Venus and Adonis’, ’The Rape of Lucrece’, and ’The Sonnets’, as well as Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Innehållsförteckning
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
Mc Donald.
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.
Om författaren
Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English
at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare
Association of America. She is an editor of The Norton
Shakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage and
Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, with
Phyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of
Shakespeare’s English Histories (1997).
Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at Ohio
State University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: the
Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) and
Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern
England:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the Palgrave
Literary Lives series.
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