A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV, The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays,

by Editor: Richard Dutton (Ohio State University); Editor: Jean E. Howard

• ISBN13: 9780470997307
• ISBN10: 0470997303
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.This companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Shakespeare s Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception Hisotry

The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid s Metamorphoses in Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis

Shakespeare s Problem Plays and the Drama of His Time: Troilus and Cressida, Alls Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure

The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeares Theatre

Hymeneal Blood, Interchangeable Women, and the Early Modern Marriage Economy in Measure for Measure and Alls Well That Ends Well

Varieties of Collaboration in Shakespeares Problem Plays and Late Plays

What s in a Name? Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy

Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher

Place and Space in Three Late Plays

The Politics and Technology of Spectacle in the Late Plays

The Tempest in Performance

What It Feels Like For a Boy: Shakespeare s Venus and Adonis

Publishing Shame: The Rape of Lucrece

The Sonnets: Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeares Two Loves

The Two-Party System in Troilus and Cressida

Opening Doubts Upon the Law: Measure for Measure

Doctor SheHealing and Sex in All s Well That Ends Well

You not your child well loving Text and Family Structure in Pericles

Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators Iconomachy and The Winters Tale

Cymbeline: Patriotism and Performance

Meaner Ministers : Mastery, Bondage, and Theatrical Labor in The Tempest

Queens and the Structure of History in Henry VIII

Mixed Messages: The Aesthetics of The Two Noble Kinsmen

Index

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