David Scott Kastan

A Companion to Shakespeare

Herausgeber: Kastan, David Scott

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Shakespeare is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, indeed for anyone with an interest in his plays.

Contains 28 newly commissioned essays written by the most distinguished historians and literary scholars
Situates Shakespeare in the historical and cultural conditions in which he wrote

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 945g
• ISBN-13: 9780631218784
• ISBN-10: 0631218785
• Artikelnr.: 13585888

Autorenporträt

David Scott Kastan is Professor of English at the Columbia University and a General Editor of the New Arden Shakespeare. His numerous publications include: Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time (1982), Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Stuart Drama (1991), Critical Essays on Shakespeare's Hamlet (1995), and Shakespeare After Theory (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors.

Part I: Introduction.

Part II: Shakespeare I.

Part III: Living.

Part IV: Reading.

Part V: Writing.

Part VI: Playing.

Part VII: Printing.

Part VIII: Shakespeare II.

Index.

Rezensionen

"This collection of 28 essays provides a historical overview of theconditions of Shakespeare's world." Library Journal

"No playgoer, reader, teacher or scholar shouldbe without this elegant and indispensable guide to Shakespeare. Itbrings together the best in recent scholarship on the socialhistory, contemporary reading, and institutions and materialpractices of writing, playing and printing in early modern England.Kastan has assembled a collection of essays with his peers andpresented them with his characteristic intelligence and grace. Thedefinitive Companion to Shakespeare." Karen Newman, BrownUniversity

"A worthy companion indeed - every serious student ofShakespeare should carry this adroitly compiled collection ofspecialist essays on essential background constantly with them.Kastan has brought together a star cast of experts to help us tohear Shakespeare's distinctive voice, with all its historical andintellectual resonances, in a fresh and sharply clarified context."Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University ofLondon

"Literally indispensable for anyone interested in Shakespeare."Patricia Parker, University of Stanford

"David Kastan has put together a dazzling collection of essayson Shakespeare. And one doesn't expect to be dazzled by that rathersedate animal, a Companion. This Companion represents thevery best in recent scholarship and is at the same time lively,accessible, and often surprising. It is indeed indispensible."Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania

"Between them these specialist writers have assembled a seriesof essays which represent, for the time being at least, the lastword in Shakespearean scholarship and research. It is difficult tothink of any aspect of the dramatist's life, times and work whichis not covered by this companion."

"This companion can be confidently recommended as a paragon ofShakespearean research." K.C.Harrison, ReferenceReviews

"The publication [...] of the monumental Companion toShakespeare, edited by David Scott Kastan, is a major event andone that should be celebrated for the breadth and depth ofscholarship the book makes available to students." Year's WorkIn English Studies