Edited by Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells
3,000 entries
From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to the misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favourite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, a team of 100 internationally renowned scholars provides a lucid, stimulating, and authoritative guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Special feature entries on every play are included.
"Opening such books is like sitting down with a knowledgeable friend. Not a bore or a know-all, but a genuinely well-informed chum. The new Shakespeare has already distracted me for hours." - Sunday Times
Michael Dobson is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the University of Surrey Roehampton. He has also taught at Oxford, Harvard, Indiana and Illinois universities. His publications include The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660–1769, and he is theatre reviewer for Shakespeare Survey.
Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He was Professor of Shakespeare Studies and the Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, from 1988–1997, and is now Emeritus Professor. He has been General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare since 1978. One of the most distinguised Shakespearian scholars currently working, his publications include Shakespeare: The Poet and his Plays (2001), The Oxford Shakespeare: King Lear (2001), Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism (2000), The Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare (1998), and Re-editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader (1984).
ISBN: 0198117353
Print edition publication date: 2001
Sample entry: Shakespeare's dramatic poetry
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