Shakespeare's Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance

ISBN-13: 9781032239682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 258 str.

Brett Gamboa; Lawrence Switzky

Opis

Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance invites new critical attention to non-human agents and influences, while aiming to revolutionize the interpretations of the uncanny, the supernatural, and the fantastic in Shakespeare’s plays.

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1 Introduction

BRETT GAMBOA AND LAWRENCE SWITZKY

PART I

History

2 Reviving Vitalism in King Lear

AARON GREENBERG

3 Understanding Shakespeare’s Shoes

NATASHA KORDA

4 Mirrors and Macbeth’s Queer Materialism

JOHN S. GARRISON

5 The Mirror and Age in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

HANH BUI

6 Shakespeare’s Babies: “Things to Come at Large”

MEGAN SNELL

PART II

Theory

7 Eliot and His Problems: Hamlet’s Correlative Objects

ANDREW SOFER

8 Shakespeare’s Virtuous Properties

JULIA REINHARD LUPTON

9 The Power to Die: Liveliness, Minor Agency, and Shakespeare’s Female Characters

KELSEY BLAIR

10 Shakespeare’s Dark Ecologies: Rethinking the Environment in Macbeth and King Lear

GILES WHITELEY

PART III

Performance

11 Human Remains: Acting, Objects, and Belief in Performance

AOIFE MONKS

12 Shakespeare’s Puppets

KENNETH GROSS

13 Art, Objecthood, and the Extended Audience: Forced Entertainment’s Complete Works

LAWRENCE SWITZKY

14 “Newes from the Dead”: An Unnatural Moment in the History of Natural Philosophy

JANE TAYLOR

15 Tail-Piece: Shake That Thing

MARJORIE GARBER

O autorze

Dr. Brett Gamboa is an Assistant Professor of English, Dartmouth College

Dr. Lawrence Switzky is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto