The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with DocumentsMacmillan, 20. veebr 2001 - 451 pages Providing a unique combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare introduces students to the topics most important to the study of Shakespeare in their full historical and cultural context. This new edition contains many new documents, particularly by women and other marginalized voices from the early modern period. There is also a new chapter on Shakespeare in performance, which introduces students to the great variety of productions of Shakespeare's works over the centuries. |
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Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
CHAPTER | 3 |
CHAPTER I | 11 |
Maturity | 19 |
What Is an Author? | 26 |
Wits Treasury | 32 |
Early Modern English | 38 |
Wordplay | 44 |
Lady Mary Wroth Two Sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus | 184 |
Ovid From Metamorphoses Translated by Arthur Golding | 190 |
109 | 213 |
CHAPTER 7 | 219 |
Isabella Whitney From The Manner of Her Will and What | 239 |
John Moore From A Target for Tillage | 245 |
John Murrell From A Delightful Daily Exercise for Ladies | 252 |
Patriarchy | 259 |
Language as Theme | 55 |
Samuel Daniel From Musophilus | 62 |
George Puttenham From The Art of English Poesy | 68 |
Chart of the Relative Proportions of Poetry and Prose | 77 |
Shakespeare and the Kinds | 79 |
Tragedy | 85 |
Romance | 94 |
Elizabeth Cary From The Tragedy of Mariam Fair Queen of Jewry | 100 |
William Lambarde From His Notes of a Conversation with Queen | 107 |
The Playhouses | 114 |
The Companies | 120 |
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS | 128 |
Walter Hodges Illustration of the Second Globe | 134 |
CHAPTER 5 | 145 |
Indirect Sources | 154 |
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS | 163 |
Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio From Gli Hecatommithi | 169 |
A Moralized Ballad | 178 |
Marriage and Money | 265 |
The Social Structure | 273 |
William Vaughan From Natural and Artificial Directions for Health | 279 |
From An Homily of the State of Matrimony | 285 |
CHAPTER 9 | 303 |
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS | 326 |
King James I Letter to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham | 332 |
Sir John Harington Letter Describing the Revels at King Jamess Court | 333 |
Richard Hooker From Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity | 349 |
American Shakespeare | 363 |
Shakespeare Screened | 376 |
Playbill Advertising a Gala Performance of Julius Caesar Featuring | 389 |
Robert Speaight Review of Peter Brooks A Midsummer Nights Dream | 398 |
Titus Directed by Julie Taymor | 405 |
Shakespeare Resources on the Web | 422 |
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