The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

作者：  Stanley Wells aft

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-12-1

简介：　　Written by a team of leading international scholars, thisCompanion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works throughdiscussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-onebrand new essays provide lively and authoritative approaches torecent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand theirknowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book containsstimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare'sbiography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings ofthe plays are given in the context of genre as well as through thecultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender,and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latestdigital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume,contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a nationalcontext, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history ofreception and performance.