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 poems, problem comedies and
late playscontains original essays on "Troilus and Cressida,
Measure for Measure, All's Well That EndsWell, Venus and Adonis,
The Rape of Lucrece," and "The Sonnets," as well as "Pericles, The
Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII "and "The Two
Noble Kinsmen. "In addition, it includes eleven essays on such
topics as the reception history of the sonnets, collaboration in
Shakespeare's middle and late plays, the generic classification of
Shakespeare's late plays, "The Tempest "in performance, and the
relation of Shakespeare's "problem plays" to the work of
contemporary dramatists.
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