This book offers students and teachers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and histori
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 314
- Category
- Library
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