The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with DocumentsProviding a unique combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare introduces students to the topics most important to the study of Shakespeare in their full historical and cultural context. This new edition contains many new documents, particularly by women and other marginalized voices from the early modern period. There is also a new chapter on Shakespeare in performance, which introduces students to the great variety of productions of Shakespeare's works over the centuries. |
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Inhalt
Introduction I | 1 |
CHAPTE R | 3 |
CHAPTE R | 6 |
Maturity | 19 |
What Is an Author? | 26 |
Francis Meres From Palladis Tamia Wits Treasury | 32 |
Early Modern English | 38 |
Wordplay | 44 |
Ovid From Metamorphoses Translated by Arthur Golding | 190 |
What Is Your Text? | 194 |
Illustration of the Folding and Printing Process | 200 |
Some Examples of Textual Instability | 206 |
Title Page and Catalogue of the First Folio | 212 |
A Comparison of the Work of Compositors A and B on the 1623 Folio | 218 |
The Suburbs | 224 |
The Daily Routine | 231 |
Language as Theme | 55 |
Samuel Daniel From Musophilus | 62 |
George Puttenham From The Art of English Poesy | 68 |
Comedy | 81 |
Romance | 94 |
Elizabeth Cary From The Tragedy of Mariam Fair Queen of Jewry | 100 |
Title Page of Richard III First Quarto | 107 |
The Playhouses II 4 | 114 |
The Companies | 120 |
Map Showing the Playhouses in Shakespeares Time | 128 |
Walter Hodges Illustration of the Second Globe | 134 |
Philip Henslowe Log of Plays from His Diary | 137 |
Edward Alleyn Letter to His Wife | 143 |
Major Influences | 149 |
Shakespeares Favorites | 158 |
From the Geneva Bible | 164 |
From The Book of Common Prayer The Order for the Burial | 171 |
A Moralized Ballad | 178 |
Lady Mary Wroth Two Sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus | 184 |
William Harrison From The Description of England The Conditions | 237 |
Isabella Whitney From The Manner of Her Will and What | 239 |
John Murrell From A Delightful Daily Exercise for Ladies | 252 |
Marriage and Money | 265 |
Aristotle From Historia Animalium | 278 |
The Manner of Government | 292 |
Councillors | 306 |
Shakespeares Theater and the Problem of Authority | 322 |
Sir John Harington Letter Describing the Revels at King Jamess Court | 333 |
Richard Hooker From Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity | 349 |
American Shakespeare | 363 |
Shakespeare Screened | 376 |
Playbill Advertising a Gala Performance of Julius Caesar Featuring | 389 |
Robert Speaight Review of Peter Brooks A Midsummer Nights Dream | 398 |
Titus Directed by Julie Taymor | 405 |
Shakespeare Resources on the Web | 422 |
Chart of the Relative Proportions of Poetry and Prose | 427 |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents |
| Autor/in | Russ McDonald |
| Ausgabe | illustriert, kommentiert |
| Verlag | Macmillan, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0312248806, 9780312248802 |
| Länge | 451 Seiten |
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