A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: Volume IV, (Vol. 4 of 4), The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays (SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM, PLAYS)

Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.: Blackwell Publishing. New. 2003. Hardcover. 0631226354 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- This is one volume of a four volume set. -- All four volumes available as a set. REVIEW (S) - Library Journal: Compiled by 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. [The present volume is Vol 4. ] 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 for the present volume, 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-- .