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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this much-loved Companion has been revised and updated, reflecting developments and discoveries made in recent years and to cover the performance, interpretation, and the influence of Shakespeare's works up to the present day.
First published in 2001, the online edition was revised in 2011, with updates to over 200 entries plus 16 new entries. These online updates appear in print for the first time in this second edition, along with a further 35,000 new and revised words. These include more than 80 new entries, ranging from important performers, directors, and scholars (such as Lucy Bailey, Samuel West, and Alfredo Michel Modenessi), to topics as diverse as Shakespeare in the digital age and the ubiquity of plants in Shakespeare's works, to the interpretation of Shakespeare globally, from Finland to Iraq. To make information on Shakespeare's major works easier to find, the feature entries have been grouped and placed in a centre section (fully cross-referenced from the A-Z). The thematic listing of entries - described in the press as 'an invaluable panorama of the contents' - has been updated to include all of the new entries. This edition contains a preface written by much-lauded Shakespearian actor Simon Russell Beale.
Full of both entertaining trivia and scholarly detail, this authoritative Companion will delight the browser and reward students, academics, as well as anyone wanting to know more about Shakespeare.
List of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the 1st edition
- Preface to the 2nd edition
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Thematic listing of entries
- List of plays
- Note to the reader
- The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
- Map of British Isles and France in English Histories and Macbeth
- Family tree of the royal family in Shakespeare's English Histories
- Shakespeare's life, works, and reception: a partial chronology, 1564-1999
- Further reading
- Picture acknowledgements
About the author
Erin Sullivan arbeitet seit 1972 als beratende Astrologin und unterrichtet in Kanada, USA und Großbritannien. Sie lebt in London und in Arizona. Sie ist Dozentin am "Center for Psychological Astrology" in London. Herausgeberin einer astrologischen Reihe bei Penguin Books. Zahlreiche Artikel in allen führenden Astrologiezeitschriften. Auf deutsch sind von ihr die Bücher Saturn im Transit (1992), Rückläufige Planeten (1993), Astrologische Familiendynamik (1997) sowie Venus, Planet der Liebe und Sinnlichkeit (1998) erschienen.
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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this much-loved Companion has been revised and updated, reflecting developments and discoveries made in recent years and to cover the performance, interpretation, and the influence of Shakespeare's works up to the present day.
First published in 2001, the online edition was revised in 2011, with updates to over 200 entries plus 16 new entries. These online updates appear in print for the first time in this second edition, along with a further 35,000 new and revised words. These include more than 80 new entries, ranging from important performers, directors, and scholars (such as Lucy Bailey, Samuel West, and Alfredo Michel Modenessi), to topics as diverse as Shakespeare in the digital age and the ubiquity of plants in Shakespeare's works, to the interpretation of Shakespeare globally, from Finland to Iraq. To make information on Shakespeare's major works easier to find, the feature entries have been grouped and placed in a centre section (fully cross-referenced from the A-Z). The thematic listing of entries - described in the press as 'an invaluable panorama of the contents' - has been updated to include all of the new entries. This edition contains a preface written by much-lauded Shakespearian actor Simon Russell Beale.
Full of both entertaining trivia and scholarly detail, this authoritative Companion will delight the browser and reward students, academics, as well as anyone wanting to know more about Shakespeare.
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The Companion is a neatly prepared one-stop shop for a wealth of basic information about Shakespeare's works, then, and now.
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The Companion is a neatly prepared one-stop shop for a wealth of basic information about Shakespeare's works, then, and now. Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
