Critical Companion to William Shakespeare A Literary Refernce to His Life and Work

An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, "Shakespeare A to Z, Revised Edition is the only single-volume reference to virtually everything one needs to know about the Bard and his works. Fully updated and expanded, with substantial new material, this volume is comprehensive and authoritative. More than 3,000 entries provide the most recent scholarship on all facets of Shakespeare and his writings. Each play is covered in detail along with its characters. Shakespeare's poems are also covered. Biographical entries discuss the playwright's contemporaries and colleagues, leading actors, directors, and producers. Places, real and fictional, are explored, and useful theatrical and literary terms are explained. A new appendix of Shakespeare quotes has been added to the revised edition along with an index.Boyce, Charles is the author of 'Critical Companion to William Shakespeare A Literary Refernce to His Life and Work', published 2005 under ISBN 9780816053735 and ISBN 0816053731.