Jane Austen and William Shakespeare

Marina Cano is Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is the author of Jane Austen and Performance (Palgrave, 2017). Her research interests include women’s writing, the long nineteenth-century, performance and gender theory. Rosa García-Periago is Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain. She is currently on leave as Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast with a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship awarded by the EU. Her research interests include Jane Austen, Shakespeare and Bollywood and adaptation in Indian Cinema.

• 1. Introduction: Jane and Will, the Love Story.- Part I History, Contexts and Criticism.- 2. Jane Austen as ‘Prose Shakespeare’: Early Comparisons.- 3. William Shakespeare and Jane Austen: Biographical Challenges,- 4. Austen and Shakespeare Translated.- 5. Jewels, Bonds and the Body: Material Culture in Shakespeare and Austen.- Part II Intertextual Connections.- 6. Is it ‘a marriage of true minds’? Balanced Reading in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.- 7. ‘As sure as I have a thought or a soul’: The Protestant Heroine in Shakespeare and Austen.- 8. Tyrants, Lovers, and Comedy in the Green Worlds of Mansfield Park and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.- 9. Forbidden Familial Relations: Echoes of Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII and Hamlet in Austen’sMansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility.- Part III Theatre, Film and Performance.- 10. Shylock’s Turquoise Ring: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park and the 'Exquisite Acting' of Edmund Kean.- 11. Austen and Shakespeare: Improvised Drama.- 12. Shakespeare, Austen and Propaganda in World War II.- 13. Screening Will and Jane: Sexuality and the Gendered Author in Shakespeare and Austen Biopics.- 14. Austen and Shakespeare, Detectives.- 15. The Twilight Saga as an Adaptation of Shakespeare and Austen.- 16. Curating Will & Jane.- 17. Afterword.