The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Smith |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2016-08-18 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1107098785 |
An international team of scholars covers every aspect of one of the most famous books in the English language.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Claire McEachern |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2013-08-08 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 110701977X |
This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine M. S. Alexander |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 2009-07-16 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0521881781 |
In this book, leading international Shakespeare scholars consider the significant characteristics of Shakespeare's last plays and place them in their Jacobean context.
Shakespeare's First Folio
Title | Shakespeare's First Folio PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Smith |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2016-03-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191069280 |
This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of their place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers new ways to understand Shakespeare's reception and the history of the book. Unlike previous scholarly investigations of the First Folio, it is not concerned with the discussions of how the book came into being, the provenance of its texts, or the technicalities of its production. Instead, it reanimates, in narrative style, the histories of this book, paying close attention to the details of individual copies now located around the world - their bindings, marginalia, general condition, sales history, and location - to discuss five major themes: owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. This is a history of the book that consolidated Shakespeare's posthumous reputation: a reception history and a study of interactions between owners, readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, booksellers, and the book through which we understand and recognize Shakespeare.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Jackson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2020-12-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1108421164 |
Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Shaughnessy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 267 |
Release | 2007-06-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107495024 |
This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.
The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
Title | The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Margreta De Grazia |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 381 |
Release | 2010-03-25 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0521886325 |
Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.