An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and distinctive readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and speculates on the likely future directions it will take.

• Introduction


• I. TEXTS


• 1: HUGH CRAIG: Authorship


• 2: MACDONALD P. JACKSON: Collaboration


• 3: ARTHUR F. MAROTTI AND LAURA ESTILL: Manuscript Circulation


• 4: ANN THOMPSON: Quarto and Folio


• 5: GRACE IOPPOLO: Revisions


• 6: MATTEO A. PANGALLO: Dramatic Meter


• 7: ADAM G. HOOKS: Book Trade


• 8: SONIA MASSAI: Early Readers


• II. CONDITIONS


• 9: IAN ARCHER: Economy


• 10: JAMES KEARNEY: Status


• 11: CATHERINE RICHARDSON: Domestic Life


• 12: ANDREW HISCOCK: Gender


• 13: LYNNE MAGNUSSON: Language


• 14: BRIAN GIBBONS: Dramaturgy


• 15: JANET CLARE: Censorship


• III. WORKS


• 16: DAVID BEVINGTON: Early Shakespeare


• 17: JAMES MARINO: Middle Shakespeare


• 18: CATHERINE BATES: Poetry


• 19: ADAM ZUCKER: Late Shakespeare


• IV. PERFORMANCES


• 20: ALAN SOMERSET: Local Records


• 21: ANDREW GURR: Patronage


• 22: ROSLYN L. KNUTSON: Repertory


• 23: JANE HWANG DEGENHARDT: Foreign Worlds


• 24: MELISSA AARON: Theater as Business


• 25: TANYA POLLARD: Audience Reception


• 26: LAURY MAGNUS: Shakespeare on Film


• 27: DOUGLAS M. LANIER: Marketing Shakespeare


• V. CURRENT SPECULATIONS


• 28: JESSICA WOLFE: Classics


• 29: CHRISTY DESMET: Character


• 30: REBECCA LEMON: Law


• 31: CATHY SHRANK: Formation of Nationhood


• 32: ANDREW HADFIELD: Republicanism


• 33: BRIAN C. LOCKEY: Empire


• 34: TZACHI ZAMIR: Philosophy


• 35: LARS ENGLE: Pragmatism


• 36: BRIAN CUMMINGS: Religion


• 37: FREDERICK KIEFER: Architecture


• 38: ADAM MAX COHEN: Science and Technology


• 39: FRAN TEAGUE: Shakespeare and America


• 40: TON HOENSLAARS: Shakespeare and the World

Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of numerous books, including Tudor England: An Encyclopedia , Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment , Shakespeare's Web Shakespeare and Cognition, Shakespeare by Stages, and Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mysteries of Authorship (with Hugh Craig). He is the recipient of the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America and the Jean Robertson Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sidney Society. He has edited Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments and A Companion to Renaissance Drama for Blackwell.