Shakespeare Survey: Volume 63, Shakespeare's English Histories and Their Afterlives

ISBN-13: 9780521769150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 434 str.

Peter Holland;¬Abar

Opis

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The theme for volume 63 is Shakespeare's English Histories and their Afterlives'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http: //www.cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey. This fully-searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic, and save and bookmark their results."

Recenzje

'The annual Shakespeare Survey continues to be an important scholarly forum.' Paul Dean, Summer Fields School, Oxford

Spis treści

Shakespeare the historian Christy Desmet; The decline of the chronicle and Shakespeare's history plays Jean-Christophe Mayer; Rites of oblivion in Shakespearian history plays Isabel Karremann; Richard II's Yorkist editors Emma Smith; Mapping the globe: the cartographic gaze and Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth Part 1 Ralf Hertel; Falstaff's belly: pathos, prosthetics and performance Robert Shaughnessy; 'And is old double dead?': Nation and nostalgia in 2 Henry IV Naomi Conn Liebler; Performing the conflated text of Henry IV: the fortunes of Part Two James C. Bulman; Medley history: The Famous Victories of Henry The Fifth to Henry V Janet Clare; Georgic sovereignty in Henry V Dermot Cavanagh; The Troublesome Reign, Richard II and the date of King John: a study in intertextuality Charles R. Forker; The trials of Queen Katherine in Henry VIII Janette Dillon; 'Watch out for two handed swords': double-edged poetics in Howard Barker's Henry V in Two Parts (1971) Vanasay Khamphommala; Daunted at a woman's sight?: The use and abuse of female presence in cycle-performances of the Histories Anna Kamaralli; The RSC's 'glorious moment' and the making of Shakespearian history Alice Dailey; Shakespeare as war memorial: remembrance and commemoration in the Great War Clara Calvo; Shakespearian biography, biblical allusion, and early modern practices of reading scripture Randall Martin; Filling in the 'wife-shaped void': the contemporary afterlife of Anne Hathaway Katherine Scheil; Shakespeare and Machiavelli: a caveat N. W. Bawcutt; Shame and reflection in Montaigne and Shakespeare Lars Engle; Playing the law for lawyers: witnessing, evidence and the law of contract in The Comedy of Errors Barbara Kreps; Shakespeare's Narcissus: omnipresent love in Venus and Adonis John McGee; Surface tensions: ceremony and shame in Much Ado About Nothing Alison Findlay; 'Remember me': Shylock on the postwar German stage Sabine Schülting; 'Dangerous and rebel prince': a television adaptation of Hamlet in late Francoist Spain Jesús Tronch-Pérez; What Shakespeare did with the Queen's King Leir and when Meredith Skura; Re-cognizing Leontes Arthur F. Kinney; Shakespeare performances in England 2009 Carol Chillington Rutter; Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 2008 James Shaw; The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Julie Sanders; 2. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Pascale Aebischer; 3. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Eric Rasmussen.