Read more
Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field.
An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare is edited by esteemed scholar Arthur Kinney and contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and imaginative readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and suggests the likely future directions it will take. The Handbook is divided into five sections: 'Texts' explores how Shakespeare wrote, who he collaborated with, the ways in which his works
were transmitted, and the reactions of his early readers; 'Conditions' examines the economic, social, artistic, and linguistic forces at play on Shakespeare; 'Works' discusses the various stages of his career; 'Performances' is concerned with issues such as the reception of his plays, the theatre business,
and film adaptations; and 'Current Speculations' includes essays on topics ranging from the role of philosophical thought and the influence of classical sources to the relevance of empire, technology, religion, and law. By covering the range of Shakespeare's work in his time and ours, this myriad-minded book deepens and enriches our understanding of the great poet and unparalleled playwright's accomplishments.
List of contents
ARTHUR F KINNEY: Introduction; I. TEXTS; 1 HUGH CRAIG: Authorship; 2 MACDONALD P. JACKSON: Collaboration; 3 ARTHUR F. MAROTTI AND LAURA ESTILL: Manuscript Circulation; 4 ANN THOMPSON: Quarto and Folio; 5 GRACE IOPPOLO: Revisions; 6 MATTEO A. PANGALLO: Dramatic Meter; 7 ADAM G. HOOKS: Book Trade; 8 SONIA MASSAI: Early Readers; II. CONDITIONS; 9 IAN ARCHER: Economy; 10 JAMES KEARNEY: Status; 11 CATHERINE RICHARDSON: Domestic Life; 12 ANDREW HISCOCK: Gender; 13 LYNNE MAGNUSSON: Language; 14 BRIAN GIBBONS: Dramaturgy; 15 JANET CLARE: Censorship; III. WORKS; 16 DAVID BEVINGTON: Early Shakespeare; 17 JAMES MARINO: Middle Shakespeare; 18 CATHERINE BATES: Poetry; 19 ADAM ZUCKER: Late Shakespeare; IV. PERFORMANCES; 20 ALAN SOMERSET: Local Records; 21 ANDREW GURR: Patronage; 22 ROSLYN L. KNUTSON: Repertory; 23 JANE HWANG DEGENHARDT: Foreign Worlds; 24 MELISSA AARON: Theater as Business; 25 TANYA POLLARD: Audience Reception; 26 LAURY MAGNUS: Shakespeare on Film; 27 DOUGLAS M. LANIER: Marketing Shakespeare; V. CURRENT SPECULATIONS; 28 JESSICA WOLFE: Classics; 29 CHRISTY DESMET: Character; 30 REBECCA LEMON: Law; 31 CATHY SHRANK: Formation of Nationhood; 32 ANDREW HADFIELD: Republicanism; 33 BRIAN C. LOCKEY: Empire; 34 TZACHI ZAMIR: Philosophy; 35 LARS ENGLE: Pragmatism; 36 BRIAN CUMMINGS: Religion; 37 FREDERICK KIEFER: Architecture; 38 ADAM MAX COHEN: Science and Technology; 39 FRAN TEAGUE: Shakespeare and America; 40 TON HOENSLAARS: Shakespeare and the World
About the author
Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of numerous books, including Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment, Shakespeare's Web Shakespeare and Cognition, Shakespeare by Stages, and Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mysteries of Authorship (with Hugh Craig). He is the recipient of the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America and the Jean Robertson Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sidney Society. He has edited Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments and A Companion to Renaissance Drama for Blackwell.
Summary
An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and distinctive readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and speculates on the likely future directions it will take.
Additional text
inventive and inspiring.
Report
inventive and inspiring. Julia Reinhard Lupton, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
