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A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays
Contributor(s): Dutton, Richard (Editor), Howard, Jean E. (Editor)
ISBN: 1405136081     ISBN-13: 9781405136082
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
OUR PRICE:   $61.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2005
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Annotation: This companion to Shakespeare's poems, problem comedies, and late plays contains original essays on "Troilus and Cressida," "Measure for Measure," "All's Well That Ends Well," 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Shakespeare
Dewey: 822.33
Series: Companion to Shakespeare's Works
Physical Information: 1.44" H x 6.96" W x 9.6" (1.87 lbs) 496 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.
  • Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
  • Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.
  • Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.
  • Each volume 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.
  • Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.

This companion to Shakespeare's poems, problem comedies and late plays contains original essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and The Sonnets, as well as Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, and The Two Noble Kinsmen.