Joseph Rosenblum is professor of English at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author or editor of several books, including Chaucer Illustrated: The Canterbury Tales in Pictures over 500 Years (2003) and The Definitive Companion to Shakespeare (2017).

Rosenblum (Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro) edited The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare (CH, Mar'06, 43-3896), and in the present book, he offers a comprehensive, well-written discussion of "all the locations used for Shakespeare's scenes in his plays and in the poems" (p. xiii). The book "serves as a guide to Shakespeare's world by linking events, references, and locations to life in Shakespeare's England and Shakespeare's biography." Rosenblum arranges the volume by genre—histories, comedies, tragedies, romances, and poems—and by play or poem (the latter including "The Rape of Lucrece," "The Phoenix and the Turtle," and sonnets 153 and 154). There are two appendixes, "Other Shakespearean Sites" and "Works by Location." Content is clearly expressed and in keeping with fashionable critical and interdisciplinary discourse on spaces and literary cartography. The author includes prefatory maps of Shakespeare's Britain, Renaissance Italy, the Roman Empire, and (curiously) the Mediterranean world, and he scatters black-and-white illustrations throughout. The book is well bound, and the format is attractive; included are a detailed enumerated bibliography and a useful index. Complementing and amplifying Jeremy Black's Mapping Shakespeare (2018), Rosenblum's book is a veritable treasure trove of information.Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

Joseph Rosenblum is professor of English at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author or editor of several books, including Chaucer Illustrated: The Canterbury Tales in Pictures over 500 Years (2003) and The Definitive Companion to Shakespeare (2017).

Rosenblum (Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro) edited The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare (CH, Mar'06, 43-3896), and in the present book, he offers a comprehensive, well-written discussion of "all the locations used for Shakespeare's scenes in his plays and in the poems" (p. xiii). The book "serves as a guide to Shakespeare's world by linking events, references, and locations to life in Shakespeare's England and Shakespeare's biography." Rosenblum arranges the volume by genre—histories, comedies, tragedies, romances, and poems—and by play or poem (the latter including "The Rape of Lucrece," "The Phoenix and the Turtle," and sonnets 153 and 154). There are two appendixes, "Other Shakespearean Sites" and "Works by Location." Content is clearly expressed and in keeping with fashionable critical and interdisciplinary discourse on spaces and literary cartography. The author includes prefatory maps of Shakespeare's Britain, Renaissance Italy, the Roman Empire, and (curiously) the Mediterranean world, and he scatters black-and-white illustrations throughout. The book is well bound, and the format is attractive; included are a detailed enumerated bibliography and a useful index. Complementing and amplifying Jeremy Black's Mapping Shakespeare (2018), Rosenblum's book is a veritable treasure trove of information.Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

Joseph Rosenblum is professor of English at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author or editor of several books, including Chaucer Illustrated: The Canterbury Tales in Pictures over 500 Years (2003) and The Definitive Companion to Shakespeare (2017).

Rosenblum (Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro) edited The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare (CH, Mar'06, 43-3896), and in the present book, he offers a comprehensive, well-written discussion of "all the locations used for Shakespeare's scenes in his plays and in the poems" (p. xiii). The book "serves as a guide to Shakespeare's world by linking events, references, and locations to life in Shakespeare's England and Shakespeare's biography." Rosenblum arranges the volume by genre—histories, comedies, tragedies, romances, and poems—and by play or poem (the latter including "The Rape of Lucrece," "The Phoenix and the Turtle," and sonnets 153 and 154). There are two appendixes, "Other Shakespearean Sites" and "Works by Location." Content is clearly expressed and in keeping with fashionable critical and interdisciplinary discourse on spaces and literary cartography. The author includes prefatory maps of Shakespeare's Britain, Renaissance Italy, the Roman Empire, and (curiously) the Mediterranean world, and he scatters black-and-white illustrations throughout. The book is well bound, and the format is attractive; included are a detailed enumerated bibliography and a useful index. Complementing and amplifying Jeremy Black's Mapping Shakespeare (2018), Rosenblum's book is a veritable treasure trove of information.Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.