The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Volume 14: Special Section, Digital Shakespeares

ISBN-13: 9780367669454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Brett Hirsch; Hugh Craig

Opis

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on "European Shakespeares," which highlights how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. Contributors to this issue come from Europe, North America, South Africa, and India. In addition to the sect

Spis treści

Contents: Part I Special Section: 'European Shakespeares', Edited by Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo: Introduction: European Shakespeare - quo vadis?, Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo; The chore and the passion: Shakespeare and graduation in mid-20th century Portugal, Rui Carvalho Homem; Henry V and the Anglo-Greek alliance in World War II, Tina Krontiris; Asian Shakespeares in Europe: from the unfamiliar to the defamiliarised, Alexander C.Y. Huang; Rearticulating a culture of links: Peter Brook's European Shakespeare, Fran Rayner; Shakespeare uprooted: the BBC and ShakespeareRe-Told (2005), Clara Calvo and Ton Hoenselaars; The anti-Americanism of EU Shakespeare, Douglas Bruster; Shakespeare and France in the European mirror, Jean-Christophe Mayer. Part II Shapes of Character: Man's chief good: the Shakespearean character as evaluator, Mustapha Fahmi; 'I have no other but a woman's reason': folly, femininity and sexuality in Renaissance discourses and Shakespeare's plays, Paromita Chakravarti. Part III Shapes of Romance: Shipwreck and ecology: towards a structural theory of Shakespeare and romance, Steve Mentz; Great miracle or lying wonder: Janus-faced romance in Pericles, Tiffany J. Werth; 'Better days': cultural memory in As You Like It, Indira Ghose. Part IV Review Essays: (Re)presenting Shakespeare's co-authors: lessons from the Oxford Shakespeare, Tom Rooney; Inventing the human: brontosaurus Bloom and 'the Shakespeare in us', Laurence Wright; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Tiffany Jo Werth is an associate professor of Renaissance Literature at Simon Fraser University. Tom Bishop is based at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Alexa Huang is a Professor of Enligh at George Washington University.