Companion to Shakespeare's Works, COMPLETE FOUR VOLUME SET: Volumes I - IV, (complete in 4 vols)

Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.: Blackwell Publishing. New. 2003. Hardcover. 063122632X .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - This is the complete four volume set. -- FLAWLESS COPY -- AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY -- 063122632X; 0631226338; 0631226346; 0631226354 -- REVIEW(S) - Library Journal: Compiled by Richard Dutton (English, Ohio State Univ. ; editor, "Palgrave Literary Lives" series) and Howard (English, Columbia Univ. ; editor, The Norton Shakespeare), this four-volume set offers a comprehensive view of current Shakespeare criticism, concentrating on ongoing critical research on Shakespeare's works. It is meant to complement the publisher's Companion to Shakespeare, which focuses on Shakespeare as an author....The resulting multifaceted work provides a stimulating matrix for future critical research. -- Vol. 1: "The Tragedies, " contains an essay on each tragedy and 13 additional essays on topics such as the Roman tragedies, film versions of the tragedies, and the tragic hero. Vol. 2: "The Histories, " contains an essay on each history play and 14 additional essays on topics such as riot and rebellion, censorship in the histories, and Shakespeare's portrayal of men and women. Vol. 3: "The Comedies, " contains one essay each on most of the comedies and 12 essays discussing subjects such as Shakespeare's use of English stage comedy traditions, social relationships in comic households, and cross-dressing. THE PRESENT VOLUME, VOL. 4: "The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays" contains essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and The Sonnets, and another 11 essays on topics such as place and space in the late plays, generic classification of the late plays, and scatology and satire. Each essay is enriched with notes and ample bibliographies, and indexes are provided for each volume. The intended audience of scholars and graduate students will be well served by this work. -Shana C. Fair, Ohio Univ. -- -- TABLE OF CONTENTS, VOL. 1: Notes on Contributors vii; Introduction 1; 1 "A rarity most beloved": Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy 4; 2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries 23; 3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions 47; 4 The Divided Tragic Hero 73; 5 Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Tragedy 95; 6 Reading Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England 108; 7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History 134; 8 Text and Tragedy 158; 9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity 178; 10 Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies 199; 11 Tragedy and Geography 219; 12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times 241; 13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies 262; 14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge 284; 15 "There is no world without Verona walls": The City in Romeo and Juliet 303; 16 "He that thou knowest thine": Friendship and Service in Hamlet 319; 17 Julius Caesar 339; 18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness 357; 19 King Lear 375; 20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past 393; 21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below 411; 22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art 430; 23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure 452; Index. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS, VOL. 2: Notes on Contributors vii; Introduction 1; 1 The Writing of History in Shakespeare's England 4; 2 Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History 26; 3 Censorship and the Problems with History in Shakespeare's England 48; 4 Nation Formation and the English History Plays 70; 5 The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare's English Histories 94; 6 Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare's England 125; 7 "To beguile the time, look like the time": Contemporary Film Versions of Shakespeare's Histories 146; 8 The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre? 170; 9 Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare's Histories 194; 10 Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Homoerotics in Shakespeare's History Plays 220; 11 French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeare's History Plays 246; 12 The First Tetralogy in Performance 263; 13 The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation 287; 14 1 Henry VI 308; 15 Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI 325; 16 Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI 344; 17 "The power of hope?" An Early Modern Reader of Richard III 361; 18 King John 379; 19 The King's Melting Body: Richard II 395 20 1 Henry IV 412; 21 Henry IV, Part 2: A Critical History 432; 22 Henry V 451; Index. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS, VOL. 3: Notes on Contributors vii; Introduction 1; 1 Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy 4; 2 Shakespeare's Festive Comedies 23; 3 The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy 47; 4 Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies 67; 5 The Social Relations of Shakespeare's Comic Households 90; 6 Shakespeare's Crossdressing Comedies 114; 7 The Homoerotics of Shakespeare's Elizabethan Comedies 137; 8 Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life 159; 9 Shakespeare's Comic Geographies 182; 10 Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare's Comedies 200; 11 Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff 223; 12 Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre 243; 13 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 266; 14 "Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?" The Taming of the Shrew, Women's Jest, and the Divided Audience 289; 15 The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study 307; 16 Love's Labour's Lost 320; 17 A Midsummer Night's Dream 338; 18 Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice 358; 19 The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor 376; 20 Much Ado About Nothing 393; 21 As You Like It 411; 22 Twelfth Night: "The Babbling Gossip of the Air" 429; Index. -- -- TABLE OF CONTENTS for VOL 4: Notes on Contributors viii; Introduction 1; 1 Shakespeare's Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception History 4; 2 The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid's Metamorphoses in Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis 27; 3 Shakespeare's Problem Plays and the Drama of His Time: Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure 46; 4 The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare's Theatre 69 ; 5 Hymeneal Blood, Interchangeable Women, and the Early Modern Marriage Economy in Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well 89; 6 Varieties of Collaboration in Shakespeare's Problem Plays and Late Plays 106; 7 "What's in a Name?" Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy 129; 8 Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher 150; 9 Place and Space in Three Late Plays 175; 10 The Politics and Technology of Spectacle in the Late Plays 194; 11 The Tempest in Performance 216; 12 What It Feels Like For a Boy: Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis 240; 13 Publishing Shame: The Rape of Lucrece 259; 14 The Sonnets: Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeare's Two Loves 275; 15 The Two Party System in Troilus and Cressida 302; 16 Opening Doubts Upon the Law: Measure for Measure 316; 17 "Doctor She": Healing and Sex in All's Well That Ends Well 333; 18 "You not your child well loving": Text and Family Structure in Pericles 348; 19 "Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators": Iconomachy and The Winter's Tale 365; 20 Cymbeline: Patriotism and Performance 389; 21 "Meaner Ministers": Mastery, Bondage, and Theatrical Labor in The Tempest 408; 22 Queens and the Structure of History in Henry VIII 427; 23 Mixed Messages: The Aesthetics of The Two Noble Kinsmen 445; * Index. -- with a bonus offer-- .