Shakespeare in company

Prologue : Shakespeare's early life and the origins of commercial theatre (1576-1592) -- Shakespeare as conventional poet-playwright (1592-1594) -- Imitation and identity -- The working conditions of the playwright -- Shakespeare as literary dramatist -- Shakespeare as company man (1594-1599) -- Control over casting -- The events of 1594 -- Relational drama -- Shakespeare's singularity -- Shakespeare as playhouse investor (1599-1608) -- The Globe partnership -- Robert Armin -- The children's companies -- Richard Burbage -- Shakespeare in the company of playwrights again (1608-1614) -- The events of 1608 -- Shakespeare's late style -- Shakespeare and co-authorship.

Shakespeare and Spenser : attractive opposites

The Manchester Spenser

Beyond binarism : Eros/death and Venus/Mars in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Spenser's Faerie Queene.

Perdita, Pastorella, and the romance of literary form : Shakespeare's counter-Spenserian authorship.

What means a knight? Red cross knight and Edgar.

Hamlet's debt to Spenser's Mother Hubberds tale : a satire on Robert Cecil?

Seven deadly sins and Shakespeare's Jacobean tragedies.

Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare : methodological investigations.

Pastoral forms and religious reform in Spenser and Shakespeare.

Fusion : Spenserian metaphor and Sidnean example in Shakespeare's King Lear.

Equinoctial boar : Venus and Adonis in Spenser's Garden, Shakespeare's Epyllion, and Richard III's England.

Spenser and Shakespeare : polarized approaches to psychology, poetics, and patronage.

Manchester Spenser.

Introduction : Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare : methodological investigations / Beyond binarism : Eros/death and Venus/Mars in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Spenser's Faerie Queene / Spenser and Shakespeare : polarized approaches to psychology, poetics, and patronage / Perdita, Pastorella, and the romance of literary form : Shakespeare's counter-Spenserian authorship / Pastoral forms and religious reform in Spenser and Shakespeare / Equinoctial boar : Venus and Adonis in Spenser's Garden, Shakespeare's Epyllion, and Richard III's England / Hamlet's debt to Spenser's Mother Hubberds tale : a satire on Robert Cecil? / Fusion : Spenserian metaphor and Sidnean example in Shakespeare's King Lear / What means a knight? Red cross knight and Edgar / Seven deadly sins and Shakespeare's Jacobean tragedies

Shakespearean iconoclasm

The Shakespearean metaphor : studies in language and form

Shakespeare and Donne : generic hybrids and the cultural imaginary

Introduction / Time, Love, Sex, and Death -- Sites of Death as Sites of Interaction in Donne and Shakespeare / "Nothing like the Sun": Transcending Time and Change in Donne's Love Lyrics and Shakespeare's Plays / "None Do Slacken, None Can Die": Die Puns and Embodied Time in Donne and Shakespeare / Moral, Public, and Spatial Imaginaries -- Donne, Shakespeare, and the Interrogative Conscience / Mapping the Celestial in Shakespeare's Tempest and the Writings of John Donne / Names, Puns, and More -- Inserting Me: Some Instances of Predication and the Privation of the Private Self in Shakespeare and Donne / Improper Nouns: A Response to Marshall Grossman / Aspects, Physiognomy, and the Pun: A Reading of Sonnet 135 and "A Valediction: Of Weeping" / Realms of Privacy and Imagination -- Fantasies of Private Language in "The Phoenix and Turtle" and "The Ecstasy" / Working Imagination in the Early Modern Period: Donne's Secular and Religious Lyrics and Shakespeare's Hamlet, Macbeth, and Leontes

Shakespeare and literary theory

Oxford Shakespeare topics

Oxford Shakespeare topics.

In Shakespeare's day,

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