Shakespeare / Space
Contemporary Readings in Spatiality, Culture and Drama
Published on 22. February 2024
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-1-350-28297-1 (ISBN)
Description
Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of 'space' in and through Shakespeare's plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual spaces in which they are enacted.
With contributions from 14 leading and emergent experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, memory studies, phenomenology and the history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and language, translation studies, theatre history and performance studies.
Each chapter offers methodological reflections on intersections such as space/mobility, space/emotion, space/supernatural, space/language, space/race and space/digital, whose critical purchase is demonstrated in close readings of plays like King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, Othello and Shakespeare's history plays. They testify to the importance of space for our understanding of Shakespeare's creative and theatrical practice, and at the same time enlarge our understanding of space as a critical concept in the humanities. It will prove useful to students, scholars, teachers and theatre practitioners of Shakespeare and early modern studies.
With contributions from 14 leading and emergent experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, memory studies, phenomenology and the history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and language, translation studies, theatre history and performance studies.
Each chapter offers methodological reflections on intersections such as space/mobility, space/emotion, space/supernatural, space/language, space/race and space/digital, whose critical purchase is demonstrated in close readings of plays like King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, Othello and Shakespeare's history plays. They testify to the importance of space for our understanding of Shakespeare's creative and theatrical practice, and at the same time enlarge our understanding of space as a critical concept in the humanities. It will prove useful to students, scholars, teachers and theatre practitioners of Shakespeare and early modern studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
8 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
728 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-28297-1 (9781350282971)
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Persons
Isabel Karremann is Professor for Early Modern Literature at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She is the author of The Drama of Memory in Shakespare's History Plays (2015) and has co-edited essay collections on Shakespeare and early modern drama, among them Shakespeare in Cold War Europe: Conflict, Celebration, Commemoration (2016), Forms of Faith: Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Shakespeare's England (2017) and Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England (2022).
Content
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Isabel Karremann (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
1 Space / Mobility
Networks of Exchange: Spaces around and between in Shakespeare's
King Henry IV plays
Julie Sanders (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
2 Space / Geopoetics
'Upon the crown o'the cliff': Shakespeare's Poetic Geomorphologies
Johannes Riquet (Tampere University, Finland)
3 Space / Memory
Place and Memory in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
Jonathan Baldo (University of Rochester, USA)
4 Space / Time
Shakespeare and the Fullness of Messianic Time: The Comedy of Errors
Margaret Tudeau-Clayton (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
5 Space / Religion
Shakespearean Roads to Redemption from The Two Gentlemen of Verona
to The Two Noble Kinsmen
Ina Habermann (University of Basel, Switzerland)
6 Space / Supernatural
The Demonic Environments of Hamlet and King Lear
Mary Floyd-Wilson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
7 Space / Emotion
Keeping Corners: Emotional and Spatial Confinement in Othello
Katharine A. Craik (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
8 Space / Race
Shakespeare's Sharp White Backgrounds
Andrew Bozio (Skidmore College, USA)
9 Space / Rhetoric
Move your hearts to pity": Affective and Kinetic Rhetoric in Richard III
Jennifer Vaught (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
10 Space / Language
Spaced out in Rome: Coriolanus and Social Space
James Siemon (Boston University, USA)
11 Space / Text
The Spaces of Commonplacing
Beatrice Montedoro (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
12 Space / Translation
Metamorphosing the Semiosphere: Shakespeare and the Inns of Court
Andreas Mahler (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
13 Space / Film
The Ecocinematic Sublime in Adaptations of King Lear
Todd Andrew Borlik (University of Huddersfield, UK)
14 Space / Digital
Designing Spatial Metaphors in Made-for-digital Macbeths
Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter, UK)
Select Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Isabel Karremann (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
1 Space / Mobility
Networks of Exchange: Spaces around and between in Shakespeare's
King Henry IV plays
Julie Sanders (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
2 Space / Geopoetics
'Upon the crown o'the cliff': Shakespeare's Poetic Geomorphologies
Johannes Riquet (Tampere University, Finland)
3 Space / Memory
Place and Memory in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
Jonathan Baldo (University of Rochester, USA)
4 Space / Time
Shakespeare and the Fullness of Messianic Time: The Comedy of Errors
Margaret Tudeau-Clayton (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
5 Space / Religion
Shakespearean Roads to Redemption from The Two Gentlemen of Verona
to The Two Noble Kinsmen
Ina Habermann (University of Basel, Switzerland)
6 Space / Supernatural
The Demonic Environments of Hamlet and King Lear
Mary Floyd-Wilson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
7 Space / Emotion
Keeping Corners: Emotional and Spatial Confinement in Othello
Katharine A. Craik (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
8 Space / Race
Shakespeare's Sharp White Backgrounds
Andrew Bozio (Skidmore College, USA)
9 Space / Rhetoric
Move your hearts to pity": Affective and Kinetic Rhetoric in Richard III
Jennifer Vaught (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
10 Space / Language
Spaced out in Rome: Coriolanus and Social Space
James Siemon (Boston University, USA)
11 Space / Text
The Spaces of Commonplacing
Beatrice Montedoro (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
12 Space / Translation
Metamorphosing the Semiosphere: Shakespeare and the Inns of Court
Andreas Mahler (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
13 Space / Film
The Ecocinematic Sublime in Adaptations of King Lear
Todd Andrew Borlik (University of Huddersfield, UK)
14 Space / Digital
Designing Spatial Metaphors in Made-for-digital Macbeths
Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter, UK)
Select Bibliography
Index