The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

Bruce R Smith

ISBN 10: 1107057256 / ISBN 13: 9781107057258

Published by Cambridge University Press Jan 2016, 2016

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Neuware - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Jan 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107057256
• ISBN 13: 9781107057258
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Bruce R. Smith is Dean's Professor of English and Professor of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is the author of six books, including, most recently, Phenomenal Shakespeare (2010) and The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture (2009). A former president of the Shakespeare Association of America, he has served on the editorial boards of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation; PMLA; The Senses and Society; Shakespeare Quarterly; Shakespeare Studies; and Studies in English Literature. With Katherine Rowe, he has co-directed two projects related to The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare under grants from the Digital Humanities Office of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation.