Shakespeare

An Oxford Guide
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-924522-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 742 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1408 g

Edited by Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin, Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide provides a practical and stimulating guide to all aspects of Shakespeare studies. The volume comprises over 40 specially commissioned essays by an outstanding team of Shakespeare scholars; each essay is written in an accessible and engaging style, and is followed by annotated suggestions for further reading.

The volume is divided into four key parts, which as a whole offer a valuable balance of factual and critical content. In the first Part, chapters provide information about and discuss Shakespeare, the theatres of his time, the society in which he lived, the language of his period, the conventions of playwriting, and his contemporary impact. The second Part offers critical overviews of Shakespeare's achievement in the principal genres, and each overview is followed by a practical reading exploring Shakespeare's use of the traditions, scope and boundaries of that genre in one of his key works. Part Three offers guidance to the principal current critical approaches in the study of Shakespeare: each chapter outlines a particular critical approach, and is followed by a reading applying that approach to one of Shakespeare's works; and Part Four offers chapters on topics relating to Shakespeare's intellectual and cultural impact over the ages.

Zielgruppe

Suitable for all undergraduate students studying Shakespeare. Also for the general reader looking for a comprehensive guide to Shakespeare.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wells, Stanley W.

Orlin, Lena Cowen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- I. Shakespeare's life and times

- 1: Stanley Wells: Why study Shakespeare?

- 2: Lois Potter: Shakespeare's life and career

- 3: Gabriel Egan: Theatre in London

- 4: Margaret Jane Kidnie: Shakespeare's audiences

- 5: Peter Thomson: Conventions of playwrighting

- 6: A. R. Braunmuller: Shakespeare's fellow dramatists

- 7: David Crystal: The language of Shakespeare

- 8: Russ McDonald: Shakespeare's verse

- 9: Carole Levin: The Society of Shakespeare's England

- 10: Joan Thirsk: Daily life in town and country

- 11: Martin Ingram: Love, sex, and marriage

- 12: Peter Lake: Changing attitudes towards religion

- 13: Lena Cowen Orlin: Ideas of order

- 14: Emily C. Bartels: Shakespeare's view of the world

- II. Shakespearian Genres

- 15: Lena Cowen Orlin: Introduction

- 16: William C. Carroll: Romantic comedies

- Reading: Twelfth Night, or What You Will

- 17: Phyllis Rackin: English history plays

- Reading: Henry V

- 18: Linda Woodbridge: Tragedies

- Reading: Macbeth

- 19: Alexander Leggatt: Roman plays

- Reading: Julius Caesar

- 20: Reginald Foakes: Romances

- Reading: The Winter's Tale

- 21: Paul Edmondson: Comical and tragical

- Reading: Measure for Measure

- 22: Lynne Magnusson: Non-dramatic poetry

- Reading: Shakespeare's sonnets

- 23: Alan Armstrong: Unfamiliar Shakespeare

- III. Shakespeare criticism

- 24: Michael Taylor: The critical tradition

- 25: Michael D. Bristol: Humanist interpretations

- Reading: King Lear

- 26: Christy Desmet: Character criticism

- Reading: Hamlet

- 27: Leah Scragg: Source study

- Reading: As You Like It

- 28: Inga-Stina Ewbank: Close reading

- Reading: Richard III

- 29: Jean E. Howard: Feminist criticism

- Reading: Othello

- 30: Bruce R. Smith: Studies in sexuality

- Reading: The Merchant of Venice

- 31: Lynne Enterline: Psychoanalytic criticisms

- Reading: Venus and Adonis

- 32: Jonathan Gil Harris: Materialist criticisms

- Reading: Henry IV, Part One

- 33: Jyotsna Singh: Postcolonial criticisms

- Reading: The Tempest

- 34: Kiernan Ryan: Deconstruction

- Reading: Romeo and Juliet

- 35: Patricia Tatspaugh: Performance history: Shakespeare on the stage: 1660-2001

- Reading: A Midsummer Night's Dream

- 36: Miriam Gilbert: Performance criticism

- Reading: The Taming of the Shrew

- IV. Shakespeare's afterlife

- 37: Terence Hawkes: Introduction

- 38: Laurie Maguire: Shakespeare published

- 39: Michael Billington: Shakespeare and the modern British theatre

- 40: Tony Howard: Shakespeare on film and video

- 41: David Kathman: The question of authorship

- 42: John Gross: Shakespeare's influence

- 43: Ton Hoenselaars: Shakespeare and translation

- 44: Georgiana Ziegler: Commemorating Shakespeare

- 45: Michael Best: Internet and CD-Rom resources

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley Wells is Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford, and was Professor of Shakespeare Studies, and Director of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham from 1988 to 97, where he is now Emeritus Professor. He is the general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare, and co-editor of the Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works. With Peter Holland he is general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics, and, with Michael Dobson, he recently edited the best-selling Oxford Companion to Shakespeare.

Lena Cowen Orlin is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her publications include Material London, Ca. 1600 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), Elizabethan Households (University of Washington Press, 1995), and Private Matters and Public Cultures in Post-Reformation England (Cornell University Press, 1994).