This four-volume "Companion to Shakespeare's Works," compiled as a
single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current
Shakespeare criticism.
Complementing David Scott Kastan's "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
Shakespeare's 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 Shakespeare's 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 Shakespeare's comediescontains original
essays on every comedy from "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" to
"Twelfth Night." In addition, thevolume features twelve articles on
such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy,
Shakespeare's comedies on film, Shakespeare's relation to other
comic writers of his time, Shakespeare's cross dressing comedies,
and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.
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