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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: William Shakespeare. New York : Scribner, c1985 (OCoLC)557761349 Online version: William Shakespeare. New York : Scribner, c1985 (OCoLC)606341412 |
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| Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John F Andrews |
| ISBN: | 0684178516 : 9780684178516 0684187744 9780684187747 |
| OCLC Number: | 11971334 |
| Description: | 3 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | v. 1. His world. The state : government and politics under Elizabeth and James / G.R. Elton -- The church : religion and its manifestations / Patrick Collinson -- Law and legal institutions / J.H. Baker -- Education and apprenticeship / Anthony Grafton -- Economic life in Shakespeare's England / D.C. Coleman -- Medicine and sanitation / Margaret Pelling -- Shakespeare and warfare / John Rigby Hale -- Patronage of the arts / F.J. Levy -- Theaters and the dramatic profession / Andrew Gurr -- Printing and publishing in the Tudor age / Arthur J. Slavin -- The sense of history in Renaissance England / J.G.A. Pocock -- The literate culture of Shakespeare's audience / S.K. Heninger, Jr. -- Science, magic, and folklore / Micharl MacDonald -- Travel by sea and land / David B. Quinn -- "Style is the man" : manners, dress, and decorum / Lacey Baldwin Smith -- Daily life in city, town, and country / George P. Garrettt -- Shakespeare and foreigners / John L. Lievsay -- Painting and other fine arts / Wylie Sypher -- Forest, field, and garden / Joan Thirsk - Sports and recreations / Roger Pringle. v. 2. His work. The life : a survey / S. Schoenbaum -- Thinking about Shakespeare's thought / J. Leeds Barroll -- Shakespeare's professional career : poet and playwright / David Bevington -- Shakespeare and his contemporaries / M.C. Bradbrook -- Shakespeare's language / Marvin Spevack -- Shakespeare's poetic techniques / George T. Wright -- Shakespeare's use of prose / Brian Vickers -- Shakespeare's dramatic methods / Bernard Beckerman -- Music in Shakespeare's work / F.W. Sternfield and C.R. Wilson -- The visual arts in Shakespeare's work / John Dixon Hunt -- The sonnets / Margreta de Grazia -- The poems / Hallett Smith -- Shakespeare's treatment of English history / Peter Saccio -- Shakespeare's treatment of Roman history / J.L. Simmons -- Shakespeare as a writer of comedy / David Young -- Shakespeare's tragedies / Arthur Kirsch -- Shakespeare's tragicomedies and romances / John Russell Brown -- Shakespeare and his audiences / Ann Jennalie Cook -- Ethical and theological questions in Shakespeare's dramatic works / John F. Andrews -- Shakespeare's psychology / Meredith Skura. v. 3. His influence. The publishing and editing of Shakespeare's plays / George Walton Williams -- Shakespeare on the English stage / Stanley Wells -- Shakespeare in the theater : the United States and Canada / Charles H. Shattuck -- Shakespeare as a world figure / Anne Paolucci -- Shakespeare on film and television / Jack J. Jorgens -- Shakespeare's reputation--then till now / Gerald Eades Bentley -- Shakespearean scholarship : from Rowe to the present / J. Philip Brockbank -- Shakespearean criticism / Arthur M. Eastman -- Shakespeare and the painter and illustrator / W. Moelwyn Merchant -- Shakespeare in music / Ellen T. Harris -- Major Shakespearean institutions / Ralph Berry -- Shakespeare and the modern writer / Anthony Burgess -- Shakespeare and the modern playwright / Peter Ustinov -- Shakespeare and the modern director / Jonathan Miller -- Tradition, style, and the Shakespearean actor today / Sir John Gielgud -- The cultural phenomenon of Shakespeare / Joseph G. Price -- Shakespeare and the humanties / Jacques Barzun -- Shakespeare and the modern critic / John Simon -- Teaching Shakespeare : tradition and the future / Homer Swander -- Contemporary issues in Shakespearean interpretation / Maurice Charney. |
| Responsibility: | John F. Andrews, editor. |
Abstract:
Contains sixty original essays by historians, scholars, critics, writers, and actors, which provide a variety of perspectives on the world, work, and influence of sixteenth-century playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
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