The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide
The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide
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Are you studying Shakespeare and looking for a handy summary of plots, characters and interpretations? Or are you a keen theatregoer wanting essential background on the Shakespeare plays you see on stage? Ideal for students and theatre enthusiasts alike, this lively and authoritative guide presents key information, clearly set out, on all Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works, covering plots and people, sources, context, performance history and major themes. Ordered alphabetically for easy reference, each play entry features a 'key facts' box providing informative and revealing statistics, including a breakdown of each play's major roles. The guide is illustrated with striking performance photographs throughout, and also provides brief accounts of Shakespeare's life and language, Shakespeare in print and theatre in Shakespeare's time. This is an indispensable reference source for all students and theatregoers.
- Provides essential factual and interpretative information about Shakespeare's works and background in an approachable and authoritative way
- Introduces the rich range of questions Shakespeare's works have prompted for both scholars and performers, involving the reader in the active interpretation of the texts
- Includes illustrative production photographs of all the plays and features a clear and attractive design layout which allows easy reference
Reviews & endorsements
"Even the most avid Shakespearean will learn from the spotlight on the works, while general essays explore the life and times."
-Emma Hagestadt,Durrants
"I hope this book will find its way onto the shelves of many a Shakespeare enthusiast and into the satchels of many a student. For undergraduates, cramming for the next seminar or tutorial, Emma Smith’s guide will, I suspect, become a trusted and valued friend, something you can turn to with a cup of coffee and read on the way to class. For its size and the range of information it offers, I cannot think of a better example of its kind." --Around the Globe Magazine
Product details
April 2012Hardback
9780521195232
258 pages
240 × 132 × 15 mm
0.4kg
35 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. The Works:
- 1. All's Well That Ends Well
- 2. Antony and Cleopatra
- 3. As You Like It
- 4. The Comedy of Errors
- 5. Coriolanus
- 6. Cymbeline
- 7. Hamlet
- 8. Julius Caesar
- 9. King Henry IV Part 1
- 10. King Henry IV Part 2
- 11. King Henry V
- 12. King Henry VI Parts 1, 2, and 3
- 13. King Henry VIII, or All is True
- 14. King John
- 15. King Lear
- 16. King Richard II
- 17. King Richard III
- 18. Love's Labour's Lost
- 19. Macbeth
- 20. Measure for Measure
- 21. The Merchant of Venice
- 22. The Merry Wives of Windsor
- 23. A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 24. Much Ado About Nothing
- 25. Othello
- 26. The Phoenix and the Turtle
- 27. Pericles
- 28. The Rape of Lucrece
- 29. Romeo and Juliet
- 30. The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
- 31. The Taming of the Shrew
- 32. The Tempest
- 33. Timon of Athens
- 34. Titus Andronicus
- 35. Troilus and Cressida
- 36. Twelfth Night
- 37. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- 38. The Two Noble Kinsmen
- 39. The Winter's Tale
- 40. Venus and Adonis
- Part II. The Context:
- 41. Shakespeare's life
- 42. Shakespeare's theatre
- 43. Shakespeare in print
- 44. Shakespearean apocrypha
- 45. Shakespeare's language
- Further reading.
