Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts

AUTHOR APPROVEDAWAITING 2ND ENDORSEMENT'This remarkable collection is the most comprehensive and up-to-date Companion to Shakespeare ever assembled. With thirty essays all by distinguished or cutting-edge scholars, covering every single mode of Shakespearean production and adaptation from the early modern period to the present, such as in music, comics, television, dance, visual arts, radio, film, as well as on the stage, there is no better book for undergraduate Shakespeare courses to contextualize and complement the Bard's own work'.Professor Bryan Reynolds, University of California, Irvine Explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to artistic practices and activities, past and presentThe 30 newly commissioned chapters in this Companion recover the conditions that enabled Shakespeare's art, and move through subsequent centuries to detail how the plays and poems have been reworked and revitalized in the arts of modernity, including publishing, exhibiting, staging, reconstructing and disseminating. Each chapter provides both a synthesis and a discussion of a topic, informed by current thinking and theoretical reflection.Divided into 6 sections: Shakespeare & the Book o Shakespeare & Music o Shakespeare on Stage & in Performance o Shakespeare & Youth Culture o Shakespeare, Visual & Material Culture o Shakespeare, Media & CultureKey Features:o Addresses Shakespeare in terms of a global frame of referenceo Chapters consider chronology and overview, critical history and analysiso Responds to a growing critical and pedagogical interest in the relations between Shakespeare, the arts, film, performance and mass media more generally Contributors:Michael Best o David Bevington o Erin C. Blake o Judith Buchanan o Mark Thornton Burnett o Christie Carson o Anne-Marie Costantini-Corn de o Rodney Stenning Edgecombe o Balz Engler o Richard Foulkes o Susanne Greenhalgh o Adam Hansen o Andrew James Hartley o Peter Holbrook o Alexander C. Y. Huang o Michael P. Jensen o Edel Lamb o Sonia Massai o Lucy Munro o Marianne Novy o Stephen Purcell o Fiona Ritchie o Kate Rumbold o Julie Sanders o Amy Scott-Douglass o Adrian Streete o Fran Teague o Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. o Christopher R. Wilson o Ramona Wray Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies, Adrian Streete is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Ramona Wray is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, all at Queen's University, Belfast.Burnett is the author of 'Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts', published 2011 under ISBN 9780748635238 and ISBN 0748635238.