The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents

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Macmillan, 20. 2. 2001 - 451 strán (strany)
Providing 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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Introduction I
1
CHAPTER
3
CHAPTER I
11
Maturity
19
What Is an Author?
26
Wits Treasury
32
Early Modern English
38
Wordplay
44
Lady Mary Wroth Two Sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
184
Ovid From Metamorphoses Translated by Arthur Golding
190
109
213
CHAPTER 7
219
Isabella Whitney From The Manner of Her Will and What
239
John Moore From A Target for Tillage
245
John Murrell From A Delightful Daily Exercise for Ladies
252
Patriarchy
259

Language as Theme
55
Samuel Daniel From Musophilus
62
George Puttenham From The Art of English Poesy
68
Chart of the Relative Proportions of Poetry and Prose
77
Shakespeare and the Kinds
79
Tragedy
85
Romance
94
Elizabeth Cary From The Tragedy of Mariam Fair Queen of Jewry
100
William Lambarde From His Notes of a Conversation with Queen
107
The Playhouses
114
The Companies
120
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
128
Walter Hodges Illustration of the Second Globe
134
CHAPTER 5
145
Indirect Sources
154
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
163
Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio From Gli Hecatommithi
169
A Moralized Ballad
178
Marriage and Money
265
The Social Structure
273
William Vaughan From Natural and Artificial Directions for Health
279
From An Homily of the State of Matrimony
285
CHAPTER 9
303
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
326
King James I Letter to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham
332
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
INDEX
430
219
437
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RUSS MCDONALD lectures in English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

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