Shakespeare and Complexity Theory

ISBN-13: 9780367886301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Claire Hansen

Opis

Shakespeare and Complexity Theory is the first book-length examination into how complexity theory may be incorporated within Shakespeare studies. The book demonstrates how complexity theory can illuminate our understanding of Shakespeare’s texts, early modern theatrical practices (from dance to co-authorship to stagecraft), peda

Spis treści

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Introduction: Shakespeare, the System

1: The Characteristics of Complexity

2: ‘Like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all disordered’: Dance and bounded instability in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

3: ‘Hath the firmament more suns than one?’ Co-authorship, space and self-organisation in Titus Andronicus

4: ‘Such Branches of Learning’: The Unexpected in Shakespeare Pedagogy and The Merchant of Venice

5: ‘Constant as the Northern Star’? The Power of Attractors in Stratford-upon-Avon and Julius Caesar

Conclusion

References

Index

O autorze

Claire Hansen is a researcher on the Shakespeare Reloaded Project at the University of Sydney.