This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century. This companion to Shakespeare s poems, problem comedies and late plays contains original essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, "e;Venus and Adonis"e;, "e;The Rape of Lucrece"e;, and "e;The Sonnets"e;, as well as Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.* Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.* Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.* Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.* Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.* Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.This companion to Shakespeare's poems, problem comedies and late plays contains original essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, "Venus and Adonis", "The Rape of Lucrece", and "The Sonnets", as well as Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Notes on Contributors.Introduction.1. Shakespeare s Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: AReception Hisotry: Bruce R. Smith.2. The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid s Metamorphosesin Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis: DympnaCallaghan.3. Shakespeare s Problem Plays and the Drama of His Time:Troilus and Cressida, Alls Well That Ends Well, Measure forMeasure: Paul Yachnin.4. The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire inShakespeares Theatre: Bruce Boehrer.5. Hymeneal Blood, Interchangeable Women, and the Early ModernMarriage Economy in Measure for Measure and Alls Well That EndsWell: Theodora A. Jankowski.6. Varieties of Collaboration in Shakespeares Problem Plays andLate Plays: John Jowett.7. What s in a Name? Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy:Barbara A. Mowat.8. Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher: RussMcDonald.9. Place and Space in Three Late Plays: John Gillies.10. The Politics and Technology of Spectacle in the Late Plays:David M. Bergeron.11. The Tempest in Performance: Diana E. Henderson.12. What It Feels Like For a Boy: Shakespeare s Venus andAdonis: Richard Rambuss.13. Publishing Shame: The Rape of Lucrece: Copplia Kahn.14. The Sonnets: Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeares TwoLoves: Valerie Traub.15. The Two-Party System in Troilus and Cressida: LindaCharnes.16. Opening Doubts Upon the Law: Measure for Measure: KarenCunningham.17. Doctor She. Healing and Sex in All s Well That Ends Well:Barbara Howard Traister.18. You not your child well loving . Text and Family Structurein Pericles: Suzanne Gossett.19. Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators . Iconomachy and The WintersTale: Marion O Connor.20. Cymbeline: Patriotism and Performance: Valerie Wayne.21. Meaner Ministers : Mastery, Bondage, and Theatrical Labor inThe Tempest: Daniel Vitkus.22. Queens and the Structure of History in Henry VIII: SusanFrye.23. Mixed Messages: The Aesthetics of The Two Noble Kinsmen:Julie Sanders.Index.