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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells

This online edition was reviewed and selectively updated by the original editors in 2011.

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.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
2001
Print ISBN-13:
9780198117353
Published to Oxford Reference:
2003
Current Online Version:
2012
eISBN:
9780191727498

Authors

Michael Dobson, author

Stanley Wells, author

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).

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