Shakespeare in Our Time
A Shakespeare Association of America Collection
Published on 24. March 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
372 pages
978-1-4725-2041-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death by reflecting on the unrivalled work of the Shakespeare Association of America and offering a unique collection of leading Shakespeare scholars outlining key developments in Shakespeare studies over the last two decades. These essays are complemented by younger scholars who respond and look forward to new fields of study and debate. As such the book offers a "state of the nation" look at Shakespeare criticism, covering all the key areas of research and study including gender, text, performance, the body, history, religion and biography. This is a must-read, comprehensive introduction to the key critical ideas surrounding Shakespeare's work and a stimulating exploration of where Shakespeare studies will go next.
Reviews / Votes
Shakespeare in Our Time is an invaluable source in presenting illuminating and intriguing approaches to Shakespeare's plays. In its twenty articles it is ultimately a challenging conversation among distinguished scholars of the early modern period. The chapters raise interesting and innovative concerns, such as American appropriation, social context, Shakespeare's sources, and text, and cover a wide range of critical approaches from feminism to ecocriticism, from sexuality to morality, from media to race and class systems, and from historicism to globalization. Each section includes three or four articles from various critical approaches that both broaden the reader's understanding and approach the matter with new perspectives ... Shakespeare in Our Time enriches and broadens the understanding of students and instructors with clear guidance of Shakespeare studies. All chapters, but particularly chapters on teaching, editing, and biography, are informative and beneficial for pedagogical interests. In each chapter, authors present interesting, innovative, and challenging approaches to help students understand their world by learning from Shakespeare's language, characters, and messages. The book provides professors, students, and readers with eye-opening analyses that will help extend their horizons. * Sixteenth Century Journal *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
468 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4725-2041-8 (9781472520418)
DOI
CBID180360
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Dympna Callaghan | Suzanne Gossett
Shakespeare in Our Time
A Shakespeare Association of America Collection
E-Book
02/2016
1st Edition
The Arden Shakespeare
€28.49
Available for download
Dympna Callaghan | Suzanne Gossett
Shakespeare in Our Time
A Shakespeare Association of America Collection
E-Book
02/2016
1st Edition
The Arden Shakespeare
€28.49
Available for download
Persons
Dympna Callaghan is William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters at Syracuse University, USA. Suzanne Gossett is Emeritus Professor of Literature at Loyola University, Chicago, USA.
Content
Preface - Lena Orlin
List of Contributors
Introduction - Dympna Callaghan and Suzanne Gossett
Feminism
Why Feminism Still Matters - Phyllis Rackin
Just Imagine - Kathryn Schwarz
Letters, Characters, Roots - Wendy Wall
Sexuality
Deeds, Desire, Delight - Bruce R. Smith
Rethinking Sexual Acts and Identities - Mario DiGangi
HexaSexuality - Madhavi Menon
Teaching
The Classroom - David Bevington
Money for Jam - Marjorie Garber
Extension Work - Patricia Cahill
Editing
Facts, Theories, and Beliefs - Barbara A. Mowat
What We Owe to Editors - Lukas Erne
What's Next in Editing Shakespeare - Sonia Massai
Mortality
Suicide as Profit or Loss - Mary Beth Rose
Death and King Lear - Michael Neill
Shakespeare's Here - Scott L. Newstok
Media
Spectatorship, Remediation, and One Hundred Years of Hamlet - James C. Bulman
Performing Shakespeare through Social Media - Pascale Aebischer
Reading Shakespeare through Media Archaeology - Alan Galey
Race and Class
Is Black so Base a Hue? - Jean E. Howard
The Race of Shakespeare's Mind - Lara Bovilsky
Speaking of Race - Ian Smith
Sources
Shakespeare and the Bible - Robert S. Miola
Shakespeare's Sources - Ania Loomba
Volver, or Coming Back - Sarah Beckwith
Text and Authorship
Collaboration 2016 - Gary Taylor
The Value of Stage Directions - Laurie Maguire
The Author Being Dead - Adam G. Hooks
Globalization
Against Our Own Ignorance - Susanne L. Wofford
Circumnavigation, Shakespeare, and the Origins of Globalization - Daniel Vitkus
The Bard in Calcutta, India, 1835-2014 - Jyotsna G. Singh
Bodies and Emotions
Bodies without Borders in Lear and Macbeth - Gail Kern Paster
Potions, Passion, and Fairy Knowledge in A Midsummer Night's Dream - Mary Floyd-Wilson
Shakespeare and Variant Embodiment - David Houston Wood
Social Context
Social Contexting - Frances E. Dolan
"Hic et ubique": Hamlet in Sync - Bradin Bormack
Playing in Context, Playing out Context - William N. West
Historicism
Historicizing Historicism - William C. Carroll
Minding Anachronism - Margreta de Grazia
The Historicist as Gamer - Gina Bloom
Appropriations
American Appropriation through the Centuries - Georgianna Ziegler
Appropriation 2.0 - Christy Desmet
Appropriation in Contemporary Fiction - Andrew Hartley
Biography
Shakespeare and Biography - Peter Holland
Shakespeare's Friends and Family in the Archives - David Kathman
Biography vs. Novel - Lois Potter
Classicism
The Classics as Popular Discourse - Coppelia Kahn
Shakespeare's Classicism, Redux - Lynn Enterline
Time, Verisimilitude, and the Counter-Classical Ovid - Heather James
Public Shakespeare
The Publicity of the Look - Paul Yachnin
Public Women / Women of Valor - Julia Reinhard Lupton
The Ghost of the Public University - Henry S. Turner
Style
William Shakespeare, Elizabethan Stylist - Russ McDonald
Nondramatic Style - Stephen Guy-Bray
Shakespeare's Lexical Style - Alysia Kolentsis
Performance
Pluralizing Performance - Diana E. Henderson
The Study of Historical Performance - Tiffany Stern
Shakespeare / Performance - W. B. Worthen
Ecocriticism
Shakespeare and Nature - Rebecca Bushnell
Shakespeare without Nature - Steve Mentz
The Chicken and the Egg - Karen Raber
Afterword: Shakespeare in Tehran - Stephen Greenblatt
List of Contributors
Introduction - Dympna Callaghan and Suzanne Gossett
Feminism
Why Feminism Still Matters - Phyllis Rackin
Just Imagine - Kathryn Schwarz
Letters, Characters, Roots - Wendy Wall
Sexuality
Deeds, Desire, Delight - Bruce R. Smith
Rethinking Sexual Acts and Identities - Mario DiGangi
HexaSexuality - Madhavi Menon
Teaching
The Classroom - David Bevington
Money for Jam - Marjorie Garber
Extension Work - Patricia Cahill
Editing
Facts, Theories, and Beliefs - Barbara A. Mowat
What We Owe to Editors - Lukas Erne
What's Next in Editing Shakespeare - Sonia Massai
Mortality
Suicide as Profit or Loss - Mary Beth Rose
Death and King Lear - Michael Neill
Shakespeare's Here - Scott L. Newstok
Media
Spectatorship, Remediation, and One Hundred Years of Hamlet - James C. Bulman
Performing Shakespeare through Social Media - Pascale Aebischer
Reading Shakespeare through Media Archaeology - Alan Galey
Race and Class
Is Black so Base a Hue? - Jean E. Howard
The Race of Shakespeare's Mind - Lara Bovilsky
Speaking of Race - Ian Smith
Sources
Shakespeare and the Bible - Robert S. Miola
Shakespeare's Sources - Ania Loomba
Volver, or Coming Back - Sarah Beckwith
Text and Authorship
Collaboration 2016 - Gary Taylor
The Value of Stage Directions - Laurie Maguire
The Author Being Dead - Adam G. Hooks
Globalization
Against Our Own Ignorance - Susanne L. Wofford
Circumnavigation, Shakespeare, and the Origins of Globalization - Daniel Vitkus
The Bard in Calcutta, India, 1835-2014 - Jyotsna G. Singh
Bodies and Emotions
Bodies without Borders in Lear and Macbeth - Gail Kern Paster
Potions, Passion, and Fairy Knowledge in A Midsummer Night's Dream - Mary Floyd-Wilson
Shakespeare and Variant Embodiment - David Houston Wood
Social Context
Social Contexting - Frances E. Dolan
"Hic et ubique": Hamlet in Sync - Bradin Bormack
Playing in Context, Playing out Context - William N. West
Historicism
Historicizing Historicism - William C. Carroll
Minding Anachronism - Margreta de Grazia
The Historicist as Gamer - Gina Bloom
Appropriations
American Appropriation through the Centuries - Georgianna Ziegler
Appropriation 2.0 - Christy Desmet
Appropriation in Contemporary Fiction - Andrew Hartley
Biography
Shakespeare and Biography - Peter Holland
Shakespeare's Friends and Family in the Archives - David Kathman
Biography vs. Novel - Lois Potter
Classicism
The Classics as Popular Discourse - Coppelia Kahn
Shakespeare's Classicism, Redux - Lynn Enterline
Time, Verisimilitude, and the Counter-Classical Ovid - Heather James
Public Shakespeare
The Publicity of the Look - Paul Yachnin
Public Women / Women of Valor - Julia Reinhard Lupton
The Ghost of the Public University - Henry S. Turner
Style
William Shakespeare, Elizabethan Stylist - Russ McDonald
Nondramatic Style - Stephen Guy-Bray
Shakespeare's Lexical Style - Alysia Kolentsis
Performance
Pluralizing Performance - Diana E. Henderson
The Study of Historical Performance - Tiffany Stern
Shakespeare / Performance - W. B. Worthen
Ecocriticism
Shakespeare and Nature - Rebecca Bushnell
Shakespeare without Nature - Steve Mentz
The Chicken and the Egg - Karen Raber
Afterword: Shakespeare in Tehran - Stephen Greenblatt