紹介
Edited by Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin, Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide provides a practical and stimulating guide to all aspects of Shakespeare studies. The volume comprises over 40 specially commissioned essays by an outstanding team of Shakespeare scholars; each essay is written in an accessible and engaging style, and is followed by annotated suggestions for further reading. The volume is divided into four key parts, which as a whole offer a valuable balance of factual and critical content. In the first Part, chapters provide information about and discuss Shakespeare, the theatres of his time, the society in which he lived, the language of his period, the conventions of playwriting, and his contemporary impact. The second Part offers critical overviews of Shakespeare's achievement in the principal genres, and each overview is followed by a practical reading exploring Shakespeare's use of the traditions, scope and boundaries of that genre in one of his key works.
Part Three offers guidance to the principal current critical approaches in the study of Shakespeare: each chapter outlines a particular critical approach, and is followed by a reading applying that approach to one of Shakespeare's works; and Part Four offers chapters on topics relating to Shakespeare's intellectual and cultural impact over the ages.
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I. SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE AND TIMES
1. Why study Shakespeare?
2. Shakespeare's life and career
3. Theatre in London
4. Shakespeare's audiences
5. Conventions of playwrighting
6. Shakespeare's fellow dramatists
7. The language of Shakespeare
8. Shakespeare's verse
9. The Society of Shakespeare's England
10. Daily life in town and country
11. Love, sex, and marriage
12. Changing attitudes towards religion
13. Ideas of order
14. Shakespeare's view of the world
II. SHAKESPEARIAN GENRES
15. Introduction
16. Romantic comedies
Reading: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
17. English history plays
Reading: Henry V
18. Tragedies
Reading: Macbeth
19. Roman plays
Reading: Julius Caesar
20. Romances
Reading: The Winter's Tale
21. Comical and tragical
Reading: Measure for Measure
22. Non-dramatic poetry
Reading: Shakespeare's sonnets
23. Unfamiliar Shakespeare
III. SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM
24. The critical tradition
25. Humanist interpretations
Reading: King Lear
26. Character criticism
Reading: Hamlet
27. Source study
Reading: As You Like It
28. Close reading
Reading: Richard III
29. Feminist criticism
Reading: Othello
30. Studies in sexuality
Reading: The Merchant of Venice
31. Psychoanalytic criticisms
Reading: Venus and Adonis
32. Materialist criticisms
Reading: Henry IV, Part One
33. Postcolonial criticisms
Reading: The Tempest
34. Deconstruction
Reading: Romeo and Juliet
35. Performance history: Shakespeare on the stage: 1660-2001
Reading: A Midsummer Night's Dream
36. Performance criticism
Reading: The Taming of the Shrew
IV. SHAKESPEARE'S AFTERLIFE
37. Introduction
38. Shakespeare published
39. Shakespeare and the modern British theatre
40. Shakespeare on film and video
41. The question of authorship
42. Shakespeare's influence
43. Shakespeare and translation
44. Commemorating Shakespeare
45. Internet and CD-Rom resources
