Download or read book Shakespeare: Text, Stage & Canon written by Richard Proudfoot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on three lectures given by Professor Richard Proudfoot in October 1999 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of The Globe, The Arden Shakespeare's centenary and Professor Proudfoot's retirement from King's College; this enjoyable volume aims to give a general and non-specialist audience some sense of what scholarship has achieved in three critical areas of Shakespeare studies at the end of the twentieth century. Freshly and engagingly written, this lively volume will appeal to all those with an interest in Shakespeare studies.