Palgrave Shakespeare Studies – serie
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Shakespeare, Presentism, and the Legacy of Hugh Grady
Inbunden, 2026
1799 kr
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This edited collection of essays analyses the contributions that presentist theory and criticism have made to the field of Shakespeare studies in recent years while simultaneously highlighting the contributions of Hugh Grady to that intellectual endeavour. The book is comprised of eleven core …
Knowing Shakespeare
Senses, Embodiment and Cognition
Av L. Gallagher, S. Raman
Inbunden, 2010
635 kr
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A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses.
Shakespeare and the Truth of Love
The Mystery of 'The Phoenix and Turtle'
Av J. Bednarz
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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A comprehensive study of Shakespeare's forgotten masterpiece The Phoenix and Turtle . Bednarz confronts the question of why one of the greatest poems in the English language is customarily ignored or misconstrued by Shakespeare biographers, literary historians, and critics.
Shakespeare and Conflict
A European Perspective
Av C. Dente, S. Soncini
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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What has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of Shakespeare's myth, and in its European and then global spread? The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from this collection provides new insight into Shakespeare's unique position in …
Shakespeare and the Shrew
Performing the Defiant Female Voice
Av A. Kamaralli
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern performance practice negotiates the possibilities for staging these characters who refuse to conform to standards of acceptable behaviour for women, but are among Shakespeare's …
Posthumanist Shakespeares
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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Shakespeare scholars and cultural theorists critically investigate the relationship between early modern culture and contemporary political and technological changes concerning the idea of the 'human.' The volume covers the tragedies King Lear and Hamlet in particular, but also provides …
Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace
Av M. Burnett
Häftad, 2007
635 kr
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This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of national borders and technological advances, this book produces a fresh awareness of our contemporary …
Shakespeare and the Institution of Theatre
‘The Best in this Kind’
Av E. Sheen
Inbunden, 2009
635 kr
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This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre, presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career, from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest , mapping a new approach to …
Shakespeare and Character
Theory, History, Performance and Theatrical Persons
Av P. Yachnin, J. Slights
Inbunden, 2008
1262 kr
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Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap in Shakespeare studies and to put character back at the centre of our understanding of Shakespeare's achievement as an artist and thinker.
Popular Shakespeare
Simulation and Subversion on the Modern Stage
Av S. Purcell
Inbunden, 2009
635 kr
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In recent years, the 'Popular Shakespeare' phenomenon has become ever more pervasive: in fringe productions, mainstream theatre, or the mass media, Shakespeare is increasingly constructed as an authentic part of popular culture. A vivid account of Shakespeare in performance since the 1990s, this …
Shakespeare's Drama of Exile
Inbunden, 2003
635 kr
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Exile defines the Shakespearean canon, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen . This book traces the influences on the drama of exile, examining the legal context of banishment (pursued against Catholics, gypsies and vagabonds) in early modern England; the self-consciousness of …
Shakespeare's Boys
A Cultural History
Av K. Knowles
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance histories on stage and …
Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now
Criticism and Theory in the 21st Century
Av C. DiPietro, H. Grady
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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These essays address the intersections between Shakespeare, history and the present using a variety of new and established methodological approaches, from phenomenology and ecocriticism to the new economics and aesthetics.
Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood
Av D. Williams
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts the development of Shakespeare's treatment of the girl as a dramatic and literary figure, and explores the impact of Shakespeare's girl characters on the history of early modern girls …
Shakespeare's 'Whores'
Erotics, Politics, and Poetics
Av K. Stanton
Inbunden, 2014
1388 kr
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Shakespeare's 'Whores' studies each use of the word 'whore' in Shakespeare's canon, focusing especially on the positive personal and social effects of female sexuality, as represented in several major female characters, from the goddess Venus, to the queen Cleopatra, to the cross-dressing Rosalind, …
Shakespeare's Anti-Politics
Sovereign Power and the Life of the Flesh
Av D. Gil
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sovereign power against itself to engineer new forms of selfhood and relationality that escape the orbit of the nation-state. It is these new experiences …
Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Centre
Australasian Perspectives
Av K. Flaherty, P. Gay m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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Showcasing a wide array of recent, innovative and original research into Shakespeare and learning in Australasia and beyond, this volume argues the value of the 'local' and provides transferable and adaptable models of educational theory and practice.
Revisiting The Tempest
The Capacity to Signify
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It includes a wide range of essays on theoretical and practical criticism focusing on the play's original dramatic context, on its signifying processes and its …
Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of …
Imagining Shakespeare's Original Audience, 1660-2000
Groundlings, Gallants, Grocers
Inbunden, 2015
1137 kr
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Comparatively little is known about Shakespeare's first audiences. This study argues that the Elizabethan audience is an essential part of Shakespeare as a site of cultural meaning, and that the way criticism thinks of early modern theatregoers is directly related to the way it thinks of, and uses, …
Shakespearean Echoes
Av Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., A. Hansen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare's current international afterlife.
Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's …
Prison Shakespeare
For These Deep Shames and Great Indignities
Inbunden, 2015
1262 kr
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This book explores the development of the global phenomenon of Prison Shakespeare, from its emergence in the 1980s to the present day. It provides a succinct history of the phenomenon and its spread before going on to explore one case study the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble's (Australia) …
Shakespeare and Emotions
Inheritances, Enactments, Legacies
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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This collection of essays approaches the works of Shakespeare from the topical perspective of the History of Emotions. Contributions come from established and emergent scholars from a range of disciplines, including performance history, musicology and literary history.
Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine
Staging Female Characters in the Late Plays and Early Adaptations
Av L. Leigh
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Shakespeare and Space
Theatrical Explorations of the Spatial Paradigm
Av Ina Habermann, Michelle Witen
Inbunden, 2016
1513 kr
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This collection offers an overview of the ways in which space has become relevant to the study of Shakespearean drama and theatre. It distinguishes various facets of space, such as structural aspects of dramatic composition, performance space and the evocation of place, linguistic, social and …
Shakespeare’s Extremes
Wild Man, Monster, Beast
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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Shakespeare's Extremes is a controversial intervention in current critical debates on the status of the human in Shakespeare's work. By focusing on three flagrant cases of human exorbitance - Edgar, Caliban and Julius Caesar - this book seeks to limn out the domain of the human proper in …
Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction
DCI Shakespeare
Av Lisa Hopkins
Inbunden, 2016
635 kr
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This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such …
Shakespeare and Authority
Citations, Conceptions and Constructions
Inbunden, 2018
1638 kr
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This book examines conceptions of authority for and in Shakespeare, and the construction of Shakespeare as literary and cultural authority. The first section, Defining and Redefining Authority, begins by re-defining the concept of Shakespeare’s sources, suggesting that ‘authorities’ and ‘resources’ …
Knowing Shakespeare
Senses, Embodiment and Cognition
Av L. Gallagher, S. Raman
Häftad, 2010
635 kr
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A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses.
