How To Do Things With Shakespeare

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.

"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)

• 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