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Title The Oxford companion to Shakespeare / general editor, Michael Dobson ; associate general editor, Stanley Wells
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001
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Contents Thematic listing of entries -- List of plays -- The British Isles and France in the English Histories and Macbeth -- The royal family on Shakespeare's English Histories -- Shakespeare's life, works, and reception: a partial chronology
Summary Provides a guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Covers topics from the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to the misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favorite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Encyclopedias.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias.
Form Electronic book
Author Dobson, Michael, 1960-
Wells, Stanley, 1930-
ISBN 9780191727498
0191727490
0198117353
9780198117353