{"product_id":"9780631226338","title":"A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II The Histories","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBlackwell Companions to Literature and Culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Histories\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRichard Dutton | Jean E. Howard\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis four-volume \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Shakespeare's Works,\u003c\/i\u003e compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eVolumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis companion to Shakespeare's histories contains original essays on every history play from \u003ci\u003eHenry VI\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eHenry V\u003c\/i\u003e as well as fourteen additional articles on such topics as censorship in Shakespeare's histories, the relation of Shakespeare's plays to other dramatic histories of the period, Shakespeare's histories on film, the homoerotics of Shakespeare's history plays, and nation formation in Shakespeare's histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cb\u003eJean E. Howard\u003c\/b\u003e is William E. Ransford Professor of English at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is an editor of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNorton Shakespeare,\u003c\/i\u003e and author of, among other works \u003ci\u003eThe Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of \u003ci\u003eEngendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories\u003c\/i\u003e (1997).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Dutton\u003c\/b\u003e is currently Professor of English at Lancaster University, author of \u003ci\u003eMastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama\u003c\/i\u003e (1991) and \u003ci\u003eLicensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords\u003c\/i\u003e (2000). He is editor of the \u003ci\u003ePalgrave Literary Lives\u003c\/i\u003e series. From 2003, he will be Professor of English at Ohio State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e09 June 2003\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780631226338\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e496\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e39.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44314337542284,"sku":"9780631226338","price":241.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780631226338.jpg?v=1780142891","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780631226338","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}