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By Michael Dobson,Stanley Wells,Will Sharpe,Erin Sullivan

ISBN-10: 0198708734

ISBN-13: 9780198708735

The Oxford spouse to Shakespeare is the main accomplished reference paintings on hand on Shakespeare's existence, instances, works, and his 400-year international legacy. as well as the authoritative A-Z entries, it contains approximately a hundred illustrations, a chronology, a consultant to extra studying, a thematic contents record, and specific characteristic entries on every one of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's loss of life, this much-loved spouse has been
revised and up to date, reflecting advancements and discoveries made in recent times and to hide the functionality, interpretation, and the effect of Shakespeare's works as much as the current day.

First released in 2001, the net version was once revised in 2011, with updates to over 2 hundred entries plus sixteen new entries. those on-line updates seem in print for the 1st time during this moment version, besides an additional 35,000 new and revised phrases. those contain greater than eighty new entries, starting from vital performers, administrators, and students (such as Lucy Bailey, Samuel West, and Alfredo Michel Modenessi), to themes as different as
Shakespeare within the electronic age and the ubiquity of vegetation in Shakespeare's works, to the translation of Shakespeare globally, from Finland to Iraq. To make details on Shakespeare's significant works more uncomplicated to discover, the characteristic entries were grouped and put in a centre part (fully cross-referenced from the A-Z). The thematic directory of entries -
described within the press as 'an important landscape of the contents' - has been up-to-date to incorporate the entire new entries. This variation encompasses a preface written through much-lauded Shakespearian actor Simon Russell Beale.

Full of either enjoyable trivialities and scholarly aspect, this authoritative significant other will pride the browser and present scholars, lecturers, in addition to an individual desirous to be aware of extra approximately Shakespeare.

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