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A Companion to Shakespeares Works: The Comedies
Author: Richard Dutton
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This four-volume Companion to Shakespeares Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. ullBrings 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. llExamines each of Shakespeares plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. llVolumes are organized in relation to generic categories namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. llEach 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. llOffers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.lulThis companion to Shakespeares comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night as well as twelve additional articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeares comedies on film, Shakespeares relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeares cross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.ReviewWhether for the student wishing for an overview of critical approaches or anxious to fill in the gaps in his Shakespearean culture, for those wishing to catch up on the diversity of literary theories, or for the inquisitive browser, this set of volumes assuredly charts the map of current criticism. Cahiers ElisabethainsBook DescriptionThis four-volume Companion to Shakespeares Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.Complementing David Scott Kastans A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context, these volumes examine each of his plays and major poems using all the resources of contemporary criticism from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analyses.Scholars from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and United States - have joined in the writing of new essays addressing virtually the whole of Shakespeares canon from a rich variety of critical perspectives. A mixture of younger and more established scholars, their work reflects some of the most interesting research currently being conducted in Shakespeare studies.Arguing for the persistence and utility of genre as a rubric for teaching and writing about Shakespeares works, the editors have organized the four volumes in relation to generic categories namely, the tragedies, the histories, the comedies, and the poems, problem comedies and late plays. Each volume thus 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.This ambitious project offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twentieth-first century.This companion to Shakespeares comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night. In addition, the volume features twelve articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeares comedies on film, Shakespeares relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeares cross dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.
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This four-volume Companion to Shakespeares Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. ullBrings 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. llExamines each of Shakespeares plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. llVolumes are organized in relation to generic categories namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. llEach 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. llOffers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.lulThis companion to Shakespeares comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night as well as twelve additional articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeares comedies on film, Shakespeares relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeares cross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.ReviewWhether for the student wishing for an overview of critical approaches or anxious to fill in the gaps in his Shakespearean culture, for those wishing to catch up on the diversity of literary theories, or for the inquisitive browser, this set of volumes assuredly charts the map of current criticism. Cahiers ElisabethainsBook DescriptionThis four-volume Companion to Shakespeares Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.Complementing David Scott Kastans A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context, these volumes examine each of his plays and major poems using all the resources of contemporary criticism from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analyses.Scholars from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and United States - have joined in the writing of new essays addressing virtually the whole of Shakespeares canon from a rich variety of critical perspectives. A mixture of younger and more established scholars, their work reflects some of the most interesting research currently being conducted in Shakespeare studies.Arguing for the persistence and utility of genre as a rubric for teaching and writing about Shakespeares works, the editors have organized the four volumes in relation to generic categories namely, the tragedies, the histories, the comedies, and the poems, problem comedies and late plays. Each volume thus 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.This ambitious project offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twentieth-first century.This companion to Shakespeares comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night. In addition, the volume features twelve articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeares comedies on film, Shakespeares relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeares cross dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.
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