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Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare's Works #1
A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume 1: The Tragedies
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 tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.
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 tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.
- GenresShakespeare
512 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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January 18, 2011This is a 'currently-reading' review, since I noticed no one had reviewed this book yet
I'm sure the Blackwell 4-Volume companion to the works of William Shakespeare will take some time to get through, but it sure looks to be an interesting addition to the canon. Comprising an essay on each of Shakespeare's plays, and the same number of essays on a wide range of topics to do with the works, this is certainly quite an achievement. I've only read one essay thus far, and it sadly couldn't find the balance between overly twee academic discourse and turgid philosophical musings, but I don't let this one person's writing colour the other eighty or so essays still to be found.
Obviously no one work can cover the vast scope of Shakespeare, and this work isn't claiming to. But in attempting to consolidate current theories on the works, I suspect it will hold my interest. Looking forward to it!
I'm sure the Blackwell 4-Volume companion to the works of William Shakespeare will take some time to get through, but it sure looks to be an interesting addition to the canon. Comprising an essay on each of Shakespeare's plays, and the same number of essays on a wide range of topics to do with the works, this is certainly quite an achievement. I've only read one essay thus far, and it sadly couldn't find the balance between overly twee academic discourse and turgid philosophical musings, but I don't let this one person's writing colour the other eighty or so essays still to be found.
Obviously no one work can cover the vast scope of Shakespeare, and this work isn't claiming to. But in attempting to consolidate current theories on the works, I suspect it will hold my interest. Looking forward to it!
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