How To Do Things With Shakespeare
New Approaches, New Essays
1st Edition
Published on 23. October 2007
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-4051-3526-9 (ISBN)
Description
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE
"This is a companion to Shakespeare with a difference. Vive la differance!"
DAVID BEVINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
"Doing things with literature: scholarly articles are not the only way to go. Aristotle uses a lecture, Horace a letter, Sidney a mock oration. Laurie Maguire and the contributors to this book engage in a genial conversation that invites students in. Like all good conversations, this one admits first-person candor, keeps things lively by changing the subject five times, welcomes disagreements, and waits for what the reader-listener is going to do in response."
BRUCE SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
"This is a companion to Shakespeare with a difference. Vive la differance!"
DAVID BEVINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
"Doing things with literature: scholarly articles are not the only way to go. Aristotle uses a lecture, Horace a letter, Sidney a mock oration. Laurie Maguire and the contributors to this book engage in a genial conversation that invites students in. Like all good conversations, this one admits first-person candor, keeps things lively by changing the subject five times, welcomes disagreements, and waits for what the reader-listener is going to do in response."
BRUCE SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Reviews / Votes
"The contributors to Laurie Maguire's book show by doing.... They are unusually present in what they write, speaking directly to their presumed student readers. This is in some ways the sort of writing we associate with school textbooks, and it is all the better for that." (Times Literary Supplement, October 2008)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-3526-9 (9781405135269)
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Person
Laurie Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College and Reader in English at Oxford University. Her books include Shakespearean Suspect Texts (1996), Studying Shakespeare (2004), Where There's a Will There's a Way (2006), and Shakespeare's Names (2007). Maguire has published widely on Renaissance drama, textual problems, performance, and women's studies.
Content
Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Laurie E. Maguire (Magdalen College, University of Oxford).
Part I How To Do Things with Sources.
1. French Connections: The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Montaigne and Shakespeare: Richard Scholar (Oriel College, Oxford).
2. Romancing the Greeks: Cymbeline's Genres and Models: Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College, City University of New York).
3. How the Renaissance (Mis)Used Sources: The Art of Misquotation: Julie Maxwell (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge).
Part II How To Do Things with History.
4. Henry VIII, or All is True: Shakespeare's "Favorite" Play: Chris R. Kyle (Syracuse University).
5. Catholicism and Conversion in Love's Labour's Lost: Gillian Woods (Wadham College, Oxford).
Part III How To Do Things with Texts.
6. Watching as Reading: The Audience and Written Text in Shakespeare's Playhouse: Tiffany Stern (University College, Oxford).
7. What Do Editors Do and Why Does It Matter?: Anthony B. Dawson (University of British Columbia).
Part IV How To Do Things with Animals.
8. "The dog is himself": Humans, Animals, and Self-Control in The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Erica Fudge.
(Middlesex University).
9. Sheepishness in The Winter's Tale: Paul Yachnin (McGill University).
Part V How To Do Things with Posterity.
10. Time and the Nature of Sequence in Shakespeare's Sonnets: "In sequent toil all forwards do contend": Georgia Brown (independent scholar).
11. Canons and Cultures: Is Shakespeare Universal? : A. E. B. Coldiron (Florida State University).
12. "Freezing the Snowman": (How) Can We Do Performance Criticism?: Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford).
Index
Part I How To Do Things with Sources.
1. French Connections: The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Montaigne and Shakespeare: Richard Scholar (Oriel College, Oxford).
2. Romancing the Greeks: Cymbeline's Genres and Models: Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College, City University of New York).
3. How the Renaissance (Mis)Used Sources: The Art of Misquotation: Julie Maxwell (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge).
Part II How To Do Things with History.
4. Henry VIII, or All is True: Shakespeare's "Favorite" Play: Chris R. Kyle (Syracuse University).
5. Catholicism and Conversion in Love's Labour's Lost: Gillian Woods (Wadham College, Oxford).
Part III How To Do Things with Texts.
6. Watching as Reading: The Audience and Written Text in Shakespeare's Playhouse: Tiffany Stern (University College, Oxford).
7. What Do Editors Do and Why Does It Matter?: Anthony B. Dawson (University of British Columbia).
Part IV How To Do Things with Animals.
8. "The dog is himself": Humans, Animals, and Self-Control in The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Erica Fudge.
(Middlesex University).
9. Sheepishness in The Winter's Tale: Paul Yachnin (McGill University).
Part V How To Do Things with Posterity.
10. Time and the Nature of Sequence in Shakespeare's Sonnets: "In sequent toil all forwards do contend": Georgia Brown (independent scholar).
11. Canons and Cultures: Is Shakespeare Universal? : A. E. B. Coldiron (Florida State University).
12. "Freezing the Snowman": (How) Can We Do Performance Criticism?: Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford).
Index