The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

Contributors

Editorial Board

R. A. Foakes
Peter Holland
Margreta de Grazia
Dennis Kennedy
Anne Button, University of Surrey Roehampton
Alan Brissenden, University of Adelaide
Alice Clark, Université de Nantes
Anthony Davies, Victoria College, Jersey
Ania Loomba, University of Illinois at Urbana
A. Luis Pujante, Universidad de Murcia
Andrew Murphy, St Andrews University
Alfredo Michel Modenessi, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Arkady Ostrovsky, Financial Times
Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford
Balz Engler, University of Basel
Bernice Kliman, Nassau Community College, New York
Bradley Ryner, University of Maryland
Boika Sokolova, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London
Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Charity Charity, J. Walter Thompson Advertising
Catherine Alexander, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Cathy Shrank, University of Aberdeen
Catherine Tite, University of Manchester
Douglas Bruster, University of Texas at Austin
Dennis Kennedy, Trinity College, Dublin
Douglas Lanier, University of New Hampshire
Diane Purkiss, Keble College, Oxford
Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada
Gabriel Egan, Globe Education, Shakespeare's Globe
Grace Ioppolo, Reading University
George T. Wright, University of Minnesota
Hugh Grady, Beaver College
Qixin He, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Hannah Scolnikov, Tel Aviv University
Helen Vendler, Harvard University
Irena Cholij, New Grove Dictionary of Music
Irene Makaryk, University of Ottawa
Inga-Stina Ewbank, University of Leeds
Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine, Université de Caen
Jeremy Barlow, MA, ARCM, ARAM
Jerry Brotton, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London
Jonathan Bate, University of Liverpool
Jean Chothia, Selwyn College, Cambridge
Jonathan Hope, Middlesex University
Jane Kingsley-Smith, University of Hull
Jerzy Limon, University of Gdańsk
Jean Marsden, University of Connecticut
Jean-Marie Maguin, Université de Montpellier
James Shapiro, Columbia University
Kate Chedgzoy, University of Newcastle
Kate Newman, Courtauld Institute
Kenneth Parker, University of East London
Kay Stanton, California State University, Fullerton
Michael Bristol, McGill University
Michael Dobson, University of Surrey Roehampton
Margreta de Grazia, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Holroyd
Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato
Michael Jamieson, University of Sussex
Marcus Walsh, University of Birmingham
Mairi MacDonald, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Michael Neill, University of Auckland
Martin Orkin, University of Haifa
Maurice Pope
Margarida Gandara Rauen, Faculdade de Artes de Parana, Curitiba
Marvin Spevack, University of Münster
Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University, Belfast
Martin Wiggins, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
Nicola Watson, The Open University
Odette Blumenfeld, Al Cusa University, Tasi
Park Honan, University of Leeds
Peter Hulme, University of Essex
Panos Karagiorgos, Ionian University, Corfu
Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
Paola Pugliatti, University of Florence
R. A. Foakes, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Bearman, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Rafiq Darragi, University of Tunis
Richard Foulkes, University of Leicester
Rex Gibson, Cambridge Institute of Education
Richard Johns, Courtauld Institute
Robert Smallwood, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Robert Maslen, Glasgow University
Robert Shaughnessy, University of Surrey Roehampton
Simon Blatherwick, Museum of London
René Weis, University College, London
Randall Martin, University of New Brunswick
Susan Brock, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Sonia Massai, St Mary's, Strawberry Hill, University of Surrey
Stephen Orgel, Stanford University
Steve Sohmer, Lincoln College, Oxford
Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and University of Birmingham
Ton Hoenselaars, Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht
Tetsuo Kishi, Kyoto University
Tom Matheson, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
Vivian Salmon, Keble College, Oxford
Werner Habicht, Universität Würzburg
Wolfgang Riehle, Karl-Franzens Universität, Graz
Younglim Han, Chungwoon University, Korea
Zoltan Markus, New York University
Zdeněk Stříbrný, Charles University, Prague



Edited by Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells

3,000 entries

From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to the misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favourite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, a team of 100 internationally renowned scholars provides a lucid, stimulating, and authoritative guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Special feature entries on every play are included.

Michael Dobson is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the University of Surrey Roehampton. He has also taught at Oxford, Harvard, Indiana and Illinois universities. His publications include The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660–1769, and he is theatre reviewer for Shakespeare Survey.

Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He was Professor of Shakespeare Studies and the Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, from 1988–1997, and is now Emeritus Professor. He has been General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare since 1978. One of the most distinguised Shakespearian scholars currently working, his publications include Shakespeare: The Poet and his Plays (2001), The Oxford Shakespeare: King Lear (2001), Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism (2000), The Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare (1998), and Re-editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader (1984).

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Ed. Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells. Oxford University Press, 2001. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.

ISBN: 0198117353

MICHAEL DOBSON STANLEY WELLS

Published: 2001

First published 2001

Copyright © Oxford University Press 2001, 2003