Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies

ISBN-13: 9780367591823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str.

Dennis Austin Britton; Melissa Walter

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This book asks new questions about how Shakespeare engages with source material, and what should be counted as sources. The essays demonstrate that source study remains an indispensable mode of inquiry for understanding Shakespeare, his authorship and audiences, and early modern gender, racial, and class relations, as well as for considering how

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Dennis Austin Britton and Melissa Walter

　

Part One: Source Study, Sustainability, and Cultural Diversity

Toward a Sustainable Source Study

Lori Humphrey Newcomb

Contaminatio, Race, and Pity in Othello

Dennis Austin Britton

Translating Plautus to Bohemia: Ruzante, Ludovico, and The Winter’s Tale

Jane Tylus

Veiled Revenants and the Risks of Hospitality: Euripides’ Alcestis, the

Renaissance Novella, and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing

Susanne L. Wofford

　

Part Two: Sources and Audiences

Traces of Knowledge: Microsource Study in Cymbeline and Lear

Meredith Beales

Reconstructing Holinshed: History and Romance in Henry VIII

Dimitry Senyshyn

Shakespeare’s Transformative Art: Theatrical Paradigms as Sources

in All’s Well that Ends Well and Macbeth

David Kay

　

Part Three: Authorship and Transmission

Diachronic and Synchronic: Two Problems of Textual Relations

in The Comedy of Errors

Kent Cartwright

Greek Sacrifice in Shakespeare’s Rome: Titus Andronicus and Iphigenia

in Aulis

Penelope Meyers Usher

Multiple Materials and Motives in Two Gentlemen of Verona

Meredith Skura

The Curious Case of Mr. William Shakespeare and the Red Herring:

Twelfth Night and its Sources

Mark Houlahan

　

Part Four: Source Study in the Digital Age

Shakespeare Source Study in the Age of Google: Revisiting

Greenblatt’s Elephant’s and Horatio’s Ground

Brett D. Hirsch and Laurie Johnson

"Tangled in a net": Shakespeare the Adaptor/Shakespeare the Source

Janelle Jenstad

Lost Plays and Source Study

David McInnis

 

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Dennis Austin Britton is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

Melissa Walter is Associate Professor in the Department of English at University of the Fraser Valley, Canada.