Contents
Foreword
Preface to the 1st edition
Preface to the 2nd edition
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Thematic listing of entries
List of plays
Note to the reader
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
Map of British Isles and France in English Histories and
Macbeth
Family tree of the royal family in Shakespeare's English
Histories
Shakespeare's life, works, and reception: a partial chronology,
1564-1999
Further reading
Picture acknowledgements
Michael Dobson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of
the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, an executive
trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and an honorary
governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company: his previous
appointments include posts at Oxford, Harvard, the University of
Illinois at Chicago and the University of London, and he has held
fellowships and visiting appointments in California, Sweden and
China.
His publications include The Making of the National Poet (1992),
England's Elizabeth (with Nicola Watson, 2002), Performing
Shakespeare's Tragedies Today (2006), and Shakespeare and Amateur
Performance (2011). Stanley
Wells, CBE, FRSL, is Honorary President, Life Trustee, and former
Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He was Professor of
Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute,
University of Birmingham, from 1988-1997, and is now Emeritus
Professor. He is an Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal
Shakespeare Company. He has been General Editor of the Oxford
Shakespeare since 1978 and is General Editor of the Penguin
Shakespeare. One of the most distinguished
Shakespearian scholars currently working, his publications include
The Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare (1998), Shakespeare: The Poet
and his Plays (2001), The Oxford Shakespeare: King Lear (2001),
Shakespeare For All
Time (2002), Shakespeare & Co (2006), Shakespeare, Sex, and Love
(2010), Great Shakespeare Actors (2015), and Shakespeare: A Very
Short Introduction (2015). Will Sharpe is a teaching fellow at the
University of Birmingham. He contributed a monograph-length study
on 'Authorship and Attribution' to the RSC/Palgrave volume William
Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (2013). He has prepared
textual commentaries
on Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Henry VIII for the New
Oxford Shakespeare (2016). Erin Sullivan is a lecturer and fellow
at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Her
research focuses on Shakespeare and the history of emotions and
Shakespeare and cultural
celebration. She is co-editor of The Renaissance of Emotion
(Manchester, 2015), Shakespeare on the Global Stage (Arden, 2015),
and A Year of Shakespeare (Arden, 2015).
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