A Companion to Shakespeare
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
1. Edition November 1999
536 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-21878-4
John Wiley & Sons
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
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.
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.
"This collection of 28 essays provides a historical overview of the
conditions of Shakespeare's world." Library Journal
"No playgoer, reader, teacher or scholar should
be without this elegant and indispensable guide to Shakespeare. It
brings together the best in recent scholarship on the social
history, contemporary reading, and institutions and material
practices of writing, playing and printing in early modern England.
Kastan has assembled a collection of essays with his peers and
presented them with his characteristic intelligence and grace. The
definitive Companion to Shakespeare." Karen Newman, Brown
University
"A worthy companion indeed - every serious student of
Shakespeare should carry this adroitly compiled collection of
specialist essays on essential background constantly with them.
Kastan has brought together a star cast of experts to help us to
hear Shakespeare's distinctive voice, with all its historical and
intellectual resonances, in a fresh and sharply clarified context."
Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of
London
"Literally indispensable for anyone interested in Shakespeare."
Patricia Parker, University of Stanford
"David Kastan has put together a dazzling collection of essays
on Shakespeare. And one doesn't expect to be dazzled by that rather
sedate animal, a Companion. This Companion represents the
very 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 series
of essays which represent, for the time being at least, the last
word in Shakespearean scholarship and research. It is difficult to
think of any aspect of the dramatist's life, times and work which
is not covered by this companion."
"This companion can be confidently recommended as a paragon of
Shakespearean research." K.C.Harrison, Reference
Reviews
"The publication [...] of the monumental Companion to
Shakespeare, edited by David Scott Kastan, is a major event and
one that should be celebrated for the breadth and depth of
scholarship the book makes available to students." Year's Work
In English Studies
conditions of Shakespeare's world." Library Journal
"No playgoer, reader, teacher or scholar should
be without this elegant and indispensable guide to Shakespeare. It
brings together the best in recent scholarship on the social
history, contemporary reading, and institutions and material
practices of writing, playing and printing in early modern England.
Kastan has assembled a collection of essays with his peers and
presented them with his characteristic intelligence and grace. The
definitive Companion to Shakespeare." Karen Newman, Brown
University
"A worthy companion indeed - every serious student of
Shakespeare should carry this adroitly compiled collection of
specialist essays on essential background constantly with them.
Kastan has brought together a star cast of experts to help us to
hear Shakespeare's distinctive voice, with all its historical and
intellectual resonances, in a fresh and sharply clarified context."
Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of
London
"Literally indispensable for anyone interested in Shakespeare."
Patricia Parker, University of Stanford
"David Kastan has put together a dazzling collection of essays
on Shakespeare. And one doesn't expect to be dazzled by that rather
sedate animal, a Companion. This Companion represents the
very 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 series
of essays which represent, for the time being at least, the last
word in Shakespearean scholarship and research. It is difficult to
think of any aspect of the dramatist's life, times and work which
is not covered by this companion."
"This companion can be confidently recommended as a paragon of
Shakespearean research." K.C.Harrison, Reference
Reviews
"The publication [...] of the monumental Companion to
Shakespeare, edited by David Scott Kastan, is a major event and
one that should be celebrated for the breadth and depth of
scholarship the book makes available to students." Year's Work
In English Studies
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).
