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An international team of prominent scholars provides a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative, and historical aspects of Shakespeare’s work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare studies, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare’s time, and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare’s England, and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists, and a bibliographical essay.  \nTHE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO  \nSHAKESPEARE  \nCAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS TO LITERATURE  \nThe Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy edited by P. E. Easterling The Cambridge Companion to Virgil edited by Charles Martindale The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature edited by Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge The Cambridge Companion to Dante edited by Rachel Jacoff The Cambridge Chaucer Companion edited by Piero Boitani and Jill Mann The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre edited by Richard Beadle The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism edited by Jill Kraye The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway  \nThe Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film edited by Russell Jackson The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson edited by Richard Harp and Stanley Stewart The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell edited by Thomas N. Corns The Cambridge Companion to Milton edited by Dennis Danielson The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre edited by Deborah C. Payne Fisk The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1609  \nedited by Arthur F. Kinney The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740  \nedited by Steven N. Zwicker The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism edited by Stuart Curran The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel edited by John Richetti The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson edited by Greg Clingham The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster  \nThe Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry edited by Joseph Bristow The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel edited by Deirdre David The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde edited by Peter Raby  \nThe Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy edited by Dale Kramer The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw edited by Christopher Innes The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad edited by J. H. Stape The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce edited by Derek Attridge The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot edited by A. David Moody The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound edited by Ira B. Nadel The Cambridge Companion to Modernism edited by Michael Levenson The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf edited by Sue Roe and Susan Sellers The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau edited by Joel Myerson The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman edited by Ezra Greenspan The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain edited by Forrest G. Robinson The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism edited by Donald Pfizer The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton edited by Millicent Bell The Cambridge Companion to Ernest Hemingway edited by Scott Donaldson The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner edited by Philip M. Weinstein The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O’Neill edited by Michael Manheim The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams edited by Matthew C. Roudané The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller edited by Christopher Bigsby The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights edited by Brenda Murphy The Cambridge Companion to Mode","cbCail28IqCGTeqv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCail28IqCGTeqv","pdf",2440821,335,"English","# Overview and Approach\n## Major Literary, Performative, and Historical Aspects\n## Key Topics in Shakespeare Studies\n## Expanded Contemporary Themes\n## Reference Features and Reading Tools","[{\"question\":\"What is the structure of the book?\",\"answer\":\"The book offers a comprehensive introduction through nineteen newly commissioned essays.\"},{\"question\":\"Which major topics does the companion address?\",\"answer\":\"It covers biography, transmission of the texts, main dramatic and poetic genres, Shakespeare’s stage context, and the history of criticism and performance.\"},{\"question\":\"What additional themes and media areas are included?\",\"answer\":\"It engages with gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, foreigners in Shakespeare’s England, and Shakespeare’s impact on other cultures.\"}]","The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare - Comprehensive Introduction | PDF",1789986648,516]