Shakespeare Studies
Volume 54
Will be published approx. on 10. December 2026
Book
Hardback
384 pages
979-8-216-48500-1 (ISBN)
Description
Volume 54 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature, published annually with peer-reviewed articles, forums, and reviews.
Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. The journal focuses on Shakespeare and his contemporaries while embracing theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual, and artistic contexts that extend beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. Shakespeare Studies also offers opportunities for intellectual exchange through its thematically focused forums and substantial reviews. An international editorial board maintains the quality of each volume so that Shakespeare Studies may serve as a reliable resource for all students of Shakespeare and the early modern period-research scholars, teachers, actors, and directors.
Volume 54 includes a Forum "In Honor of Bruce R. Smith" with contributions from its editor Heather James, Katherine Rowe, Jeffrey Masten, Scott Trudell, Evelyn Tribble, Amanda K. Ruud, Kate Bank, Rachel Willie, Stephen Orgel, and Lena Cowen Orlin.
It features articles by Tom Rutter ("Possible Evidence for the Early Influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets: Robert Peake's Portrait of Edward Grimston"); Xing Chen ("'Nothing, my lord': A pun, King Lear, and a Defense of Rhetoric"); William Carroll ("The Wars of Love's Labour's Lost: Performance and Interpretation"); and Scott Maisano ("In a Berowne Study: Daydreaming in Love's Labour's Lost and of Love's Labour's Won"); a Roundtable exploring "Anne's World: New Conversations about Anne Shakespeare"; and four talks from the 2025 Next Generation Plenary of the Shakespeare Association of America conference.
Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. The journal focuses on Shakespeare and his contemporaries while embracing theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual, and artistic contexts that extend beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. Shakespeare Studies also offers opportunities for intellectual exchange through its thematically focused forums and substantial reviews. An international editorial board maintains the quality of each volume so that Shakespeare Studies may serve as a reliable resource for all students of Shakespeare and the early modern period-research scholars, teachers, actors, and directors.
Volume 54 includes a Forum "In Honor of Bruce R. Smith" with contributions from its editor Heather James, Katherine Rowe, Jeffrey Masten, Scott Trudell, Evelyn Tribble, Amanda K. Ruud, Kate Bank, Rachel Willie, Stephen Orgel, and Lena Cowen Orlin.
It features articles by Tom Rutter ("Possible Evidence for the Early Influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets: Robert Peake's Portrait of Edward Grimston"); Xing Chen ("'Nothing, my lord': A pun, King Lear, and a Defense of Rhetoric"); William Carroll ("The Wars of Love's Labour's Lost: Performance and Interpretation"); and Scott Maisano ("In a Berowne Study: Daydreaming in Love's Labour's Lost and of Love's Labour's Won"); a Roundtable exploring "Anne's World: New Conversations about Anne Shakespeare"; and four talks from the 2025 Next Generation Plenary of the Shakespeare Association of America conference.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
10 bw
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-216-48500-1 (9798216485001)
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Person
Diana E. Henderson is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Content
Preface: Sustaining Shakespeare Studies Amidst Transitions and Tumult
Diana E. Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
FORUM: In Honor of Bruce R. Smith
Introduction: Phenomenal Bruce
Heather James, Forum Editor, University of Southern California, US
A Scholarly Biography: 1946-2024
Katherine Rowe, The College of William and Mary, US
A Re-view of Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England
Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern University, US
Queer Phenomenology and The Night-Walker
Scott Trudell, University of Maryland, US
"Were I human": Ecologies of Listening in The Tempest
Evelyn Tribble, University of Connecticut, US
The Play of the Voice: Reading Bruce Smith's Shakespeare
Amanda K. Ruud, Valparaiso University, US
Embodying Song: Words, Music and Sensory Experience
Katie Bank (University of Birmingham, UK) and Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Shakespearean Acoustics: a footnote in memory of Bruce Smith
Stephen Orgel, Stanford University, US
Face-to-Face with London's Tomb Sculptures, 1558-1633
Lena Orlin, Georgetown University, US
ARTICLES
Possible Evidence for the Early Influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets: Robert Peake's Portrait of Edward Grimston
Tom Rutter, University of Sheffield, UK
The Wars of Love's Labour's Lost: Performance and Interpretation
William Carroll, Boston University, US
In a Berowne Study: Daydreaming in Love's Labour's Lost and of Love's Labour's Won
Scott Maisano, University of Massachusetts Boston, US
"Nothing, my lord": A pun, King Lear, and a Defense of Rhetoric
Xing Chen, Nanjing University, China
INTERVENTIONS
Anne's World: New Conversations About Anne Shakespeare
Paul Edmondson (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK), Chris Laoutaris (University of Birmingham, UK), Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown University, US), Katherine Scheil (University of Minnesota, US)
NEXT GENERATION PLENARY
The Queer End(s) of Love's Labor's Lost
Margo Kolenda-Mason
Very Small Trouble: A Creative-Critical Exploration of Early Modern Women and Festive Performance
Evelyn Reedy
EEBO-TCP, Labor, and the Narratives of Textual Production
Margaret C. Maurer
How to Get Bloody on the Early Modern Stage
Patrick Durdel
REVIEWS
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science by Debapriya Sarkar
Wendy Beth Hyman
b. Shakespeare's Once and Future Child: Speculations on Sovereignty by Joseph Campana
William C. Carroll
Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage by Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Radhika Koul
Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response by Lauren Robertson
Ellen MacKay
Sex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity by Joseph Gamble
Corey McEleney
Shakespeare and the Law by Gary Watt
Michael Lind Menna
Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage by William H. Steffan
Bernadette Myers
Shakespeare's Syndicate: The First Folio, its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade by Ben Higgins
Helen Smith
Diana E. Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
FORUM: In Honor of Bruce R. Smith
Introduction: Phenomenal Bruce
Heather James, Forum Editor, University of Southern California, US
A Scholarly Biography: 1946-2024
Katherine Rowe, The College of William and Mary, US
A Re-view of Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England
Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern University, US
Queer Phenomenology and The Night-Walker
Scott Trudell, University of Maryland, US
"Were I human": Ecologies of Listening in The Tempest
Evelyn Tribble, University of Connecticut, US
The Play of the Voice: Reading Bruce Smith's Shakespeare
Amanda K. Ruud, Valparaiso University, US
Embodying Song: Words, Music and Sensory Experience
Katie Bank (University of Birmingham, UK) and Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Shakespearean Acoustics: a footnote in memory of Bruce Smith
Stephen Orgel, Stanford University, US
Face-to-Face with London's Tomb Sculptures, 1558-1633
Lena Orlin, Georgetown University, US
ARTICLES
Possible Evidence for the Early Influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets: Robert Peake's Portrait of Edward Grimston
Tom Rutter, University of Sheffield, UK
The Wars of Love's Labour's Lost: Performance and Interpretation
William Carroll, Boston University, US
In a Berowne Study: Daydreaming in Love's Labour's Lost and of Love's Labour's Won
Scott Maisano, University of Massachusetts Boston, US
"Nothing, my lord": A pun, King Lear, and a Defense of Rhetoric
Xing Chen, Nanjing University, China
INTERVENTIONS
Anne's World: New Conversations About Anne Shakespeare
Paul Edmondson (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK), Chris Laoutaris (University of Birmingham, UK), Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown University, US), Katherine Scheil (University of Minnesota, US)
NEXT GENERATION PLENARY
The Queer End(s) of Love's Labor's Lost
Margo Kolenda-Mason
Very Small Trouble: A Creative-Critical Exploration of Early Modern Women and Festive Performance
Evelyn Reedy
EEBO-TCP, Labor, and the Narratives of Textual Production
Margaret C. Maurer
How to Get Bloody on the Early Modern Stage
Patrick Durdel
REVIEWS
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science by Debapriya Sarkar
Wendy Beth Hyman
b. Shakespeare's Once and Future Child: Speculations on Sovereignty by Joseph Campana
William C. Carroll
Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage by Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Radhika Koul
Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response by Lauren Robertson
Ellen MacKay
Sex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity by Joseph Gamble
Corey McEleney
Shakespeare and the Law by Gary Watt
Michael Lind Menna
Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage by William H. Steffan
Bernadette Myers
Shakespeare's Syndicate: The First Folio, its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade by Ben Higgins
Helen Smith