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Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.  \n1 A Companion to Romanticism Edited by Duncan Wu  \n2 Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture Edited by Herbert F. Tucker  \n3 A Companion to Shakespeare Edited by David Scott Kastan  \n4 A Companion to the Gothic Edited by David Punter  \n5 A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Dympna Callaghan  \n6 A Companion to Chaucer Edited by Peter Brown  \n7 A Companion to English Literature from Milton to Blake Edited by David Womersley  \n8 A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture Edited by Michael Hattaway  \n9 A Companion to Milton Edited by Thomas N. Corns  \n10 A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry Edited by Neil Roberts  \n11 A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature Edited by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne  \n12 A Companion to Restoration Drama Edited by Susan J. Owen  \n13 A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing Edited by Anita Pacheco  \n14 A Companion to English Renaissance Drama Edited by Arthur Kinney  \n15 A Companion to Victorian Poetry Edited by Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman and Anthony Harrison  \n16 A Companion to the Victorian Novel Edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing  \nA Companion to Shakespeare’s Works  \n17 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume I: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Tragedies Jean E. Howard  \n18 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume II: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Histories Jean E. Howard  \n19 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume III: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Comedies Jean E. Howard  \n20 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume IV: Edited by Richard Dutton and The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays Jean E. Howard  \nA C O M P A N I O N T O  \nSHAKESPEARE’S WORKS  \nV O L U M E I V  \nTHE POEMS  \n,  \nPROBLEM COMEDIES, LATE PLAYS  \nEDITED BY RICHARD DUTTON  \nAND JEAN E . HOWARD  \nEditorial material and organization copyright © 2003 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd  \n350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5018, USA  \n108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK  \n550 Swanston Street, Carlton South, Melbourne, Victoria 3053, Australia  \nKurfürstendamm 57, 10707 Berlin, Germany  \nThe right of Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard to be identified as the Authors of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs,  \nand Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher.  \nFirst published 2003 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.  \nISBN 0-631-22635-4 (hardback)  \nISBN 1-405-10730-8 (four-volume set)  \nA catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.  \nSet in 11 on 13pt Garamond 3  \nby SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd, Hong Kong  \nPrinted and bound in the United Kingdom  \nby MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall  \nFor further information on  \nBlackwell Publishing, visit our website:  \n[http://www.blackwellpublishing.com](http://www.blackwellpublishing.com)  \nContents  \nNotes on Contributors viii  \nIntroduction 1  \n1 Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception History 4  \nBruce R. Smith  \n2 The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in  \nPost-Reformati","cbCaia4MBN2TPJxM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia4MBN2TPJxM","pdf",2523957,494,"English","# Notes on Contributors\n# Introduction\n## Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception History\n## The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis\n## Shakespeare’s Problem Plays and the Drama of His Time\n## The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare’s Theatre\n## Hymeneal Blood, Interchangeable Women, and the Early Modern Marriage Economy\n## Varieties of Collaboration in Shakespeare’s Problem Plays and Late Plays\n## “What’s in a Name?” Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy\n## Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher\n## Place and Space in Three Late Plays\n## The Politics and Technology of Spectacle in the Late Plays\n## The Tempest in Performance\n## What It Feels Like For a Boy: Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis\n## Publishing Shame: The Rape of Lucrece\n## The Sonnets: Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeare’s Two Loves\n## The Two Party System in Troilus and Cressida\n## Opening Doubts Upon the Law: Measure for Measure\n## “Doctor She”: Healing and Sex in All’s Well That Ends Well\n## “You not your child well loving”: Text and Family Structure in Pericles\n## “Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators”: Iconomachy and The Winter’s Tale\n## Cymbeline: Patriotism and Performance\n## “Meaner Ministers”: Mastery, Bondage, and Theatrical Labor in The Tempest\n## Queens and the Structure of History in Henry VIII\n## Mixed Messages: The Aesthetics of The Two Noble Kinsmen\n# Index\n# Notes on Contributors","[{\"question\":\"What does Volume IV of A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on Shakespeare’s poems and the problem comedies and late plays, organized through a sequence of scholarly chapters addressing specific works and themes.\"},{\"question\":\"Which major Shakespeare works are discussed in the table of contents?\",\"answer\":\"The contents list chapters on the Sonnets, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, Henry VIII, and The Two Noble Kinsmen.\"},{\"question\":\"What types of themes and methods do the chapters emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"Chapters emphasize reception history, sexuality, satire and scatology, marriage economy, collaboration, performance, politics and spectacle, textual structure, and family dynamics.\"}]","A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works - Volume IV - The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays | PDF",1789985309,761]