Shakespeare: Staging the World

Shakespeare: Staging the World

by JonathanBate (Author), Dora Thornton (Author)

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: Jun 2012

ISBN 10: 0199915016
ISBN 13: 9780199915019

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This richly illuminated - and illuminating - book is a brilliant introduction to the world Shakespeare inhabited, refashioned in his capacious imagination, and bequeathed to us. --Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and general editor of The Norton Shakespeare


Author Bio

Jonathan Bate is Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. He was formerly Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. He is the editor of the highly acclaimed RSC William Shakespeare: Complete Works and the author of many books, including Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare and English Literature: A Very Short Introduction. He is on the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Dora Thornton is curator of Renaissance collections at the British Museum. She is the author of numerous publications including Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy (with Luke Syson) and The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy.