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What is The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare about?
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this much-loved Companion has been revised and updated, reflecting developments and discoveries made in recent years and to cover the performance, interpretation, and the influence of Shakespeare's works up to the present day. First published in 2001, the online edition was revised in 2011, with updates to over 200 entries plus 16 new entries. These online updates appear in print for the first time in this second edition, along with a further 35,000 new and revised words. These include more than 80 new entries, ranging from important performers, directors, and scholars (such as Lucy Bailey, Samuel West, and Alfredo Michel Modenessi), to topics as diverse as Shakespeare in the digital age and the ubiquity of plants in Shakespeare's works, to the interpretation of
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michael Dobson & Stanley Wells [Dobson, Michael & Wells, Stanley]
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191788802
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (43 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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