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"From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to the staging of Othello in South Africa, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. A team of internationally renowned scholars provides a stimulating and authoritative guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

Michael Dobson is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the University of Surrey Roehampton. His previous appointments include Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, visiting scholar and tutor, Harvard University, and lecturer in English, Christ Church, Oxford. Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Emeritus Professor, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham (formerly Director 1988-97). He has been general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare since 1978.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Thematic Listing of Entries
List of plays
Note to the reader
Oxford Companion to Shakespeare A-Z
The British Isles and France in the English Histories and Macbeth
The royal family in Shakespeare's English Histories
Shakespeare's life, works, and reception: a partial chronology
Further Reading
Picture acknowledgements
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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

0192806149

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