Publisher's Synopsis
This volume is a comprehensive revision of the existing Shakespeare companion, comprising new entries (on Renaissance politics, rhetoric, pronunciation, bawdy and sexual language, Virgil, the humanists, Rome, Greece, punctuation, prosody, the response of non-European critics and directors, Shakespeare and the history of psycho-analysis, the marxists, the modernist response, and so on), and the expansion of present entries (cinema and television, Shakespeare, the opera, Ovid, the anecdotal tradition, the value of the quartos, the new Globe in the 1990's, and so forth). It is also to be made more useful for theatre-goers and students, with information on plots, actors, styles of production and modern theatre.
