Shakespeare in the North
Place, Politics and Performance in England and Scotland
Published on 6. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-4744-3593-2 (ISBN)
Description
This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays. Considering how Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood the 'North', it brings together diverse voices to define what the 'North' meant and means in relation to Shakespeare. The book also situates Shakespeare's works alongside less canonical texts and media, as well as detailed case studies of new material from rich but rarely-used local, municipal and performance archives. It provides an opportunity to critically reflect on links and differences between the past and present, England and Scotland, the local and the global.
Reviews / Votes
In Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, the ruthless mill owner learns his disastrous industrial strategy from Coriolanus. The excellent contributors to Shakespeare in the North expand this fruitfully antagonistic relationship, placing England's national poet to the north of traditional Shakrespeare centres of culture and replacing Stratford, London, Arden and Windsor with Blackpool, Edinburgh, Northumberland and Tyneside. -- Emma Smith, University of OxfordMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1 black and white illustration
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-3593-2 (9781474435932)
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Person
Adam Hansen is Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University. He is the author of Shakespeare and Popular Music (Continuum, 2010) and co-editor of several collections, including Shakespearean Echoes, with Kevin J. Wetmore, eds. (Palgrave, 2015) and The White Devil: A Critical Reader, with Paul Frazer, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2016). He is on the editorial board of This Rough Magic, and Reviews Editor for English: The Journal of the English Association.
Content
AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction, Adam Hansen
I: Shakespeare and the Early Modern North
Shakespeare's Northern Blood: Transfusing Gorboduc into Macbeth and Cymbeline, Paul Frazer
'Here are strangers near at hand': Anglo-Scottish Border Crossings Pre- and Post-Union, Steve Veerapen
Shakespeare, King James and the Northern Yorkists, Richard Stacey
North by North-West: Shakespeare's Shifting Frontier, Lisa Hopkins
II: Performing Shakespeare in the North
The People's Shakespeare: Place, Politics, and Performance in a Northern Amateur Theatre, Adam Hansen
Only Northerners need apply? Northern Broadsides and 'no-nonsense' Shakespeare, Caroline Heaton
Shakespeare and Blackpool: The RSC A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016): A Play for the Nation?, Janice Wardle
William the Conqueror: The Only Shakescene in a Country, Richard Wilson
III: Appropriating Shakespeare in the North
'What is Shakespeare to Manchester'?: Shakespearean Engagement in The North at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Monika Smialkowska
A Road by Any Other Name: Heaton History Group, a North East suburb, and Shakespeare, Chris Jackson
Lancastrian Shakespeares: Hamlet and King Lear in North West England (2005-2014), Liz Oakley-Brown
Shakespeare's Cheek: Macbeth, Dunsinane and the Jacobean Condition, James Loxley
Postscript: News from the North, Willy Maley
I: Shakespeare and the Early Modern North
Shakespeare's Northern Blood: Transfusing Gorboduc into Macbeth and Cymbeline, Paul Frazer
'Here are strangers near at hand': Anglo-Scottish Border Crossings Pre- and Post-Union, Steve Veerapen
Shakespeare, King James and the Northern Yorkists, Richard Stacey
North by North-West: Shakespeare's Shifting Frontier, Lisa Hopkins
II: Performing Shakespeare in the North
The People's Shakespeare: Place, Politics, and Performance in a Northern Amateur Theatre, Adam Hansen
Only Northerners need apply? Northern Broadsides and 'no-nonsense' Shakespeare, Caroline Heaton
Shakespeare and Blackpool: The RSC A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016): A Play for the Nation?, Janice Wardle
William the Conqueror: The Only Shakescene in a Country, Richard Wilson
III: Appropriating Shakespeare in the North
'What is Shakespeare to Manchester'?: Shakespearean Engagement in The North at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Monika Smialkowska
A Road by Any Other Name: Heaton History Group, a North East suburb, and Shakespeare, Chris Jackson
Lancastrian Shakespeares: Hamlet and King Lear in North West England (2005-2014), Liz Oakley-Brown
Shakespeare's Cheek: Macbeth, Dunsinane and the Jacobean Condition, James Loxley
Postscript: News from the North, Willy Maley