The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare 2 Volume Hardback Set

This transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary work will be of interest to students, theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.

Bruce R. Smith (Edited by), Katherine Rowe (Associate editor), Ton Hoenselaars (With), Akiko Kusunoki (With), Andrew Murphy (With), Aimara da Cunha Resende (With)

9781107057258, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 21 January 2016

2248 pages, 332 b/w illus.
28.7 x 22.5 x 8.5 cm, 4.73 kg

'… The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare gives its readers an abundance of both pleasure and profitable insight.' Jean E. Howard, Renaissance Quarterly

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare aims to replicate the expansive reach of Shakespeare's global reputation. In pursuit of that vision, this work is transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary. Volume 1, Shakespeare's World, 1500–1660, includes a comprehensive survey of the world in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries lived, while Volume 2, The World's Shakespeare, 1660–Present, examines what the world has made of Shakespeare as a cultural icon over the past four centuries. For each of the work's twenty-eight broad subject areas, ranging from translation to popular culture to performing arts, an overview is followed by a series of shorter essays taking up particular aspects of the subject at hand. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images between the two volumes, this work brings the world, life and afterlife of Shakespeare to readers, from non-academic Shakespeare fans and students to theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.

Volume 1. Shakespeare's World, 1500–1660: Part I. Mapping Shakespeare's World Peter Whitfield
Part II. Theater Andrew Gurr
Part III. Language David Crystal
Part IV. Science and Technology Pamela Long
Part V. Printing, Publishing, Textuality John Jowett
Part VI. Visual Arts Alexander Marr
Part VII. Popular Culture Mary Ellen Lamb
Part VIII. High Culture Malcolm Smuts
Part IX. England 1560–1650 James A. Sharpe
Part X. Religion Lori Anne Ferrell
Part XI. Medicine Mary Fissell
Part XII. The Historical William Shakespeare Peter Holland
Part XIII. Shakespeare's Fellows Stanley Wells
Part XIV. Shakespeare's Early Reception (to 1660) Charles Whitney. Volume 2. The World's Shakespeare, 1660–Present: Part XV. International Encounters Ton Hoenselaars
Part XVI. Making the Scene Bruce R. Smith
Part XVII. Shakespeare as a Cultural Icon Jyotsna Singh
Part XVIII. Shakespeare and Popular Culture Doug Lanier
Part XIX. Translation Dirk Delabastita
Part XX. Changing Technologies of Stage Performance Shoichiro Kawai
Part XXI. Audiences Lori Newcomb
Part XXII. Production History Joseph Roach
Part XXIII. Printing and Reception History Andrew Murphy
Part XXIV. Shakespeare and the Book Georgianna Ziegler
Part XXV. Shakespeare and the Critics Lars Engle
Part XXVI. Shakespeare and the Performing Arts Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira
Part XXVII. Shakespeare and the Visual Arts Stuart Sillars
Part XXVIII. Shakespeare and Media History Katherine Rowe.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS], Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD], Theatre studies [AN]