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Product Description William Baker is University Trustee Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at Northern Illinois University. Kenneth Womack is Professor of English and Integrative Arts at Penn State University's Altoona College. From the Inside Flap The Facts On File Companion to Shakespeare is the largest and most comprehensive student's guide to Shakespeare ever written. Presented in five volumes, the primary goal of this new set is to make Shakespeare's poems and plays accessible and fun for high school and college students. Written and edited by active Shakespearean scholars and critics who have a love of teaching and explaining Shakespeare, this landmark collection presents his poems and plays in a whole new light for anyone interested in fully comprehending this prolific writer's works.This set is an essential addition to any public, high school or college library. It is also useful to literary buffs and historians.· Part I of the set contains background information on Shakespeare and society during his time.· Part II covers Shakespeare's poems and Shakespeare's sonnets, which are examined both as an extended series and as individual works.· Part III, which takes up four of the set's five volumes, examines all of Shakespeare's plays, including the plays he wrote in collaboration with other playwrights. About the Author William Baker is University Trustee Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at Northern Illinois University. He holds a joint appointment with the university library and the department of English. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than 20 books, including Shakespeare; Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History, selected as a Choice "Outstanding Academic Title"; and Facts On File's Critical Companion to Jane Austen. He is the editor of George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies and coeditor of The Year's Work in English Studies.Kenneth Womack is Professor of English and Integrative Arts at Penn State University's Altoona College where he also serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of many books, including Books and Beyond: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Reading; Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community; and Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Reconciling the Void. He is the editor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory and coeditor of The Year's Work in English Studies.

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15 February 2012
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