The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)

Edited by: Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells, Will Sharpe, and Erin Sullivan

Previous Edition (1 ed.)

‘A wonderful treasure-house of information and insight’ – Dame Judi Dench

Over 3,200 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. Now revised and updated to commemorate the 400^th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, this much-loved Companion reflects developments and discoveries made in recent years as well as the performance, interpretation, and influence of Shakespeare’s works up to the present day.

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: 2015

Print ISBN-13:: 9780198708735

Published online:: 2015

Current Online Version:: 2015

DOI:: 10.1093/acref/9780198708735.001.0001

eISBN:: 9780191788802

Authors

Michael Dobson, editor

Stanley Wells, editor

Will Sharpe, editor

Erin Sullivan, editor

Michael Dobson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, and an executive trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. His publications include The Making of the National Poet (1992), England’s Elizabeth (with Nicola Watson, 2002), Performing Shakespeare’s Tragedies Today (2006) and Shakespeare and Amateur Performance (2011).

Stanley Wells, CBE, FRSL, is Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He was Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, 1988–1997, and is now Emeritus Professor. He has been General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare since 1978. One of the most distinguished Shakespearian scholars currently working, his publications include The Oxford Shakespeare: King Lear (2001), Shakespeare & Co (2006), Shakespeare, Sex, and Love (2010), Great Shakespeare Actors (2015), and Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction (2015).

Will Sharpe is a teaching fellow at the University of Birmingham. He contributed a monograph-length study on ‘Authorship and Attribution’ to the RSC/Palgrave volume William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (2013). He has prepared textual commentaries on Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Henry VIII for the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016).

Erin Sullivan is a lecturer and fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on Shakespeare and the history of emotions and Shakespeare and cultural celebration. She is co-editor of The Renaissance of Emotion (Manchester, 2015), Shakespeare on the Global Stage (Arden, 2015), and A Year of Shakespeare (Arden, 2015).

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