Shakespeare and Genre

ANTHONY GUNERATNEAssociate Professor of Communication at Florida Atlantic University, USA.

'Shakespeare and Genre focuses readers not only on the methods Shakespeare employed in approaching genre, but also on how our own generic conditioning influences our ability to describe and understand those methods. The line-up of contributors here is stunning. In bringing together scholars interested in how Shakespeare writes/adapts genres and how Shakespearean genres are conceived and re-adapted, this anthology performs work that simply has not been done before.' - Greg Semenza, professor, University of Connecticut 'Genre is an unavoidable topic for anyone interested in Shakespeare and is still one of the central issues in literary criticism. With the help of some of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of Shakespeare, linguistics, performance, film and media studies, Guneratne has produced an incisive, provocative and very rich book. Exploring the borderlands between aesthetic forms, Shakespeare and Genre is also a rare achievement because of its comprehensive approach, which allows the early modern to enter into illuminating dialogue with the postmodern.' - Jean-Christophe Mayer, Senior Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

• Kin, Kind, and Shakespeare's Significance to Genre Studies; A.R.Guneratne Shakespeare and Renaissance Genres PART I: ORIGINS AND CONVENTIONS Shakespeare the Metalinguist; D.Crystal Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre, and the Representation of Rebellion; S.Greenblatt 'The Stage Is Hung with Black': Genre and the Trappings of Stagecraft in Shakespearean Tragedy; A.Gurr PART II: SHAKESPEARE'S DEPLOYMENTS OF GENRE Shakespeare's Development of Theatrical Genres: Genre as Adaptation in the Comedies and Histories; D.Bevington The Shakespeare Remix: Romance, Tragicomedy, and Shakespeare's 'Distinct Kind'; L.Danson PART III: SHAKESPEARE AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF GENRES IN PERFORMANCE Turning Genre on Its Head: Shakespeare's Refashioning of His Sources in Richard III, King Lear, and The Winter's Tale; S.J.Lynch Shakespearean Comedy, Tempest-Toss'd: Genre, Social Transformation, and Contemporary Performance; D.Henderson Shakespeare and Contemporary Genres PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND CULTURALLY SPECIFIC GENRES Comical Tragedies and Other Poly-generic Shakespeares in Contemporary China and Diasporic Chinese Culture; A.Huang King Lear East of Berlin: Tragedy under Socialist Realism and Afterwards; B.Sokolova & A.Shurbanov PART II: SHAKESPEARE-BASED GENRES IN OTHER MEDIA Shakespeare and Film Genre in the Branagh Generation; S.Crowl Genre and Televised Shakespeare: Evolving Forms and Shifting Definitions; T.Howard Shakespeare and Media Allegory; P.S.Donaldson PART III: SHAKESPEARE AS GENRE Shakespeare Among the Philosophers; C.Martindale 'I'll teach you differences': Genre Literacy, Critical Pedagogy, and Screen Shakespeare; D.M.Lanier