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List of contributors
Preface
William shakespeare:a kpartial chronology
A conjectural chronology of shakespeare's works
1 Shakespeare's life
ERNST HONIGMANN
2 The reproduction of shakespeare's texts
BARBARA A.MOWAT
3 What did shakespeare read?
LEONARD BARKAN
4 Shakespeare and the craft of language
MARGRETA DE GRAZIA
5 Shakespeare's poems
JOHN KERRIGAN
6 The genres of shakespeare's plays
SUSAN SNYDER
7 Playhouses,players ,and court
JOHN H.ASTINGTON
8 The london scene:city and court
ANNE BARTON
9 Gender and sexuality in shakespeare
VALERIE TRAUB
10 Outsiders in shakespeare's england
ANIA LOOMBA
11 Shakespeare and english history
DAVID SCOTT KASTAN
12 Shaespeare in the theatre,I660-I900
KIUS OITTER
13 Shakespeare in the twentieth-century theatre
LOIS POTTER
14 Shakepeare and the cinema
RUSSELL JACKSON
15 Shakespeare on the page and the stage
MICHAEL DOBSON
16 Shakespeare Wordwide
DENNIS KENNEDY
17 Shakespeare criticism,I600-I900
HUGH GRADY
18 shakespeare criticism in the twentieth century
R.S.WHITE
19 Shakespeare reference books
DIETER MEHL
Index