Dutton / Howard A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volumr IV

The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99730-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 496 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiledas a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot ofcurrent Shakespeare criticism.
* * Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and moreestablished scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada,France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the UnitedStates.
* Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems,using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performancestudies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.
* Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namelythe histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the lateplays, problem plays and poems.
* Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in therelevant category, as well as more general essays looking atcritical issues and approaches more widely relevant to thegenre.
* Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at thedawning of the twenty-first century.
This companion to Shakespeare's poems, problem comediesand late plays contains original essays on Troilus andCressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well ThatEnds Well, "Venus and Adonis", "The Rape ofLucrece", and "The Sonnets", as well asPericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline,The Tempest, and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dutton, Richard

Howard, Jean E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
Introduction.
1. Shakespeare s Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: AReception Hisotry: Bruce R. Smith.
2. The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid s Metamorphosesin Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis: DympnaCallaghan.
3. Shakespeare s Problem Plays and the Drama of His Time:Troilus and Cressida, Alls Well That Ends Well, Measure forMeasure: Paul Yachnin.
4. The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire inShakespeares Theatre: Bruce Boehrer.
5. Hymeneal Blood, Interchangeable Women, and the Early ModernMarriage Economy in Measure for Measure and Alls Well That EndsWell: Theodora A. Jankowski.
6. Varieties of Collaboration in Shakespeares Problem Plays andLate Plays: John Jowett.
7. What s in a Name? Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy:Barbara A. Mowat.
8. Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher: RussMcDonald.
9. Place and Space in Three Late Plays: John Gillies.
10. The Politics and Technology of Spectacle in the Late Plays:David M. Bergeron.
11. The Tempest in Performance: Diana E. Henderson.
12. What It Feels Like For a Boy: Shakespeare s Venus andAdonis: Richard Rambuss.
13. Publishing Shame: The Rape of Lucrece: Copplia Kahn.
14. The Sonnets: Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeares TwoLoves: Valerie Traub.
15. The Two-Party System in Troilus and Cressida: LindaCharnes.
16. Opening Doubts Upon the Law: Measure for Measure: KarenCunningham.
17. Doctor She. Healing and Sex in All s Well That Ends Well:Barbara Howard Traister.
18. You not your child well loving . Text and Family Structurein Pericles: Suzanne Gossett.
19. Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators . Iconomachy and The WintersTale: Marion O Connor.
20. Cymbeline: Patriotism and Performance: Valerie Wayne.
21. Meaner Ministers : Mastery, Bondage, and Theatrical Labor inThe Tempest: Daniel Vitkus.
22. Queens and the Structure of History in Henry VIII: SusanFrye.
23. Mixed Messages: The Aesthetics of The Two Noble Kinsmen:Julie Sanders.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of Englishat Columbia University and a past president of the ShakespeareAssociation of America. She is an editor of The NortonShakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage andSocial Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, withPhyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account ofShakespeare's English Histories (1997).
Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at OhioState University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: theRegulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) andLicensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early ModernEngland:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the PalgraveLiterary Lives series.