The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107057258)

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare aims to replicate the expansive reach of Shakespeare's global reputation. In pursuit of that vision, this work is transhistorical, international, and interdisciplinary. Shakespeare's World, 1500-1660, volume one, includes a comprehensive survey of the world in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries lived, while The World's Shakespeare, 1660-Present, volume two, examines what the world has made of Shakespeare as a cultural icon over the past four centuries. For each of the work's twenty-eight broad subject areas, ranging from translation to popular culture to performing arts, an overview is followed by a series of shorter essays taking up particular aspects of the subject at hand. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images between the two volumes, this work brings the world, life, and afterlife of Shakespeare to readers, from non-academic Shakespeare fans and students to theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.

Author: Bruce R. Smith
ISBN-10: 1107057256
ISBN-13: 9781107057258
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/21/2016
Pages: 2248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 10.45lbs
Size: 11.25h x 8.75w x 3.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2016