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Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death, it is difficult to
imagine a time when he was not considered a genius. But those 400
years have seen his plays banished and bowdlerized, faked and
forged, traded and translated, re-mixed and re-cast. Shakespeare's
story is not one of a steady rise to fame; it is a tale of
set-backs and sea-changes that have made him the cultural icon he
is today. This revealing new book accompanies an innovative
exhibition at the British Library that will take readers on a
journey through more than 400 years of performance. It will focus
on ten moments in history that have changed the way we see
Shakespeare, from the very first production of Hamlet to a
digital-age deconstruction. Each performance holds up a mirror to
the era in which it was performed. The first stage appearance by a
woman in 1660 and a black actor playing Othello in 1825 were
landmarks for society as well as for Shakespeare's reputation. The
book will also explore productions as diverse as Peter Brook's
legendary A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mark Rylance's 'Original
Practices' Twelfth Night, and a Shakespeare forgery staged at Drury
Lane in 1796, among many others.Over 100 illustrations include the
only surviving playscript in Shakespeare's hand, an authentic
Shakespeare signature, and rare printed editions including the
First Folio. These - and other treasures from the British Library's
manuscript and rare book collections - will feature alongside film
stills, costumes, paintings and production photographs.In this book
ten leading experts take a fresh look at Shakespeare, reminding us
that the playwright's iconic status has been constructed over the
centuries in a process that continues across the world today.
The attractive print and digital bundle offers students a great
reading experience at an affordable price in two ways-a hardcover
volume for their dorm shelf and lifetime library, and a digital
edition ideal for in-class use. Students can access the ebook from
their computer, tablet, or smartphone via the registration code
included in the print volume at no additional charge. As one
instructor summed it up, "It's a long overdue step forward in the
way Shakespeare is taught."
By carefully selecting extracts from sources, scholars and
scriptwriters, Gordon McMullan tells a series of stories about
Romeo and Juliet, globally and from their legend's origins to the
present day. This edition includes: Introductory materials and
explanatory annotations by Gordon McMullan as well as numerous
images; Sources and early rewritings by Luigi Da Porto, Matteo
Bandello, Pierre Boaistuau, Kareen Klein and Thomas Otway, amongst
others; Critical readings and later rewritings spanning four
centuries and including those by Stanley Wells, Wendy Wall, Dympna
C. Callaghan, Jill L. Levenson, Niamh Cusack, David Tennant and
Courtney Lehmann. A Selected Bibliography is also included.
The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series
of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy from
Shakespeare's late plays to the drama of the Interregnum. Rejecting
both the customary chronological span bounded by the years 1603-42
(which presumes dramatic activity stopped with the closing of the
theatres) and the negative critical attitudes that have dogged the
study of tragicomedy, the essays in this collection examine a
series of issues central to the possibility of a politics for the
genre. Individual essays offer important contributions to
continuing debates over the role of the drama in the years
preceding the Civil War, the colonial contexts of The Tempest, the
political character of Jonson's late plays, and the agency of women
as public and theatre actors. The introduction presents a strong
challenge to previous definitions of tragicomedy in the English
context, and the collection as a whole is characterized by its
rejection of absolutist strategies for reading tragicomedy. This
collection will prove essential reading for all with an interest in
the politics of Renaissance drama; for specialists in the work of
Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson; for those interested in genre
and dramatic forms; and for historians of early Stuart England.
This collection begins with two premises: that our understanding of
the nature and forms of creativity in later life remains limited
and that dialogue between specialists in gerontology, the arts and
humanities can produce the crucial new insights that are so
obviously needed. Representing the outcome of ongoing dialogue
across the disciplinary divide, the contributions of this volume
reflect anew on what we share and how we differ; creating new
narratives so as to build an understanding of late-life creativity
that goes far beyond the narrow confines of the pervasively
received idea of 'late style'. Creativity in Later Life encompasses
a range of personal reflections and discussions of the boundaries
of creativity, including: Canonical artistic achievements to
community art projects Narratives of carers for those living with
dementia Analyses of creative theory Through these insightful
chapters, the authors consequently offer an understanding of
creativity in later life as varied, socialised and - above all -
located in the cultural and economic circumstances of the here and
now. This title will appeal to academics, practitioners and
students in the various gerontological, arts and humanities fields;
and to anyone with an interest in the nature of creativity in later
life and the forms it takes.
This collection begins with two premises: that our understanding of
the nature and forms of creativity in later life remains limited
and that dialogue between specialists in gerontology, the arts and
humanities can produce the crucial new insights that are so
obviously needed. Representing the outcome of ongoing dialogue
across the disciplinary divide, the contributions of this volume
reflect anew on what we share and how we differ; creating new
narratives so as to build an understanding of late-life creativity
that goes far beyond the narrow confines of the pervasively
received idea of 'late style'. Creativity in Later Life encompasses
a range of personal reflections and discussions of the boundaries
of creativity, including: Canonical artistic achievements to
community art projects Narratives of carers for those living with
dementia Analyses of creative theory Through these insightful
chapters, the authors consequently offer an understanding of
creativity in later life as varied, socialised and - above all -
located in the cultural and economic circumstances of the here and
now. This title will appeal to academics, practitioners and
students in the various gerontological, arts and humanities fields;
and to anyone with an interest in the nature of creativity in later
life and the forms it takes.
The attractive print and digital bundle offers students a great
reading experience at an affordable price in two ways-a hardcover
volume for their dorm shelf and lifetime library, and a digital
edition ideal for in-class use. Students can access the ebook from
their computer, tablet, or smartphone via the registration code
included in the print volume at no additional charge. As one
instructor summed it up, "It's a long overdue step forward in the
way Shakespeare is taught."
These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare
bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects
current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative
teaching features. The print and digital bundles offer students a
great reading experience in two ways-printed volumes for their
lifetime library and digital editions ideal for in-class use. Every
introduction, note, gloss and bibliography has been reconsidered in
light of reviewers' suggestions, and new textual introductions and
performance notes reflect the extensive new scholarship in these
fields. The ebooks are accessed with The Norton Shakespeare Digital
Edition registration code included in the print volumes.
The Norton Shakespeare brings to readers a meticulously edited new
text that reflects current textual-editing scholarship and
introduces innovative teaching features. The print and digital
bundle offers students a great reading experience in two ways-a
printed volume for their lifetime library and a digital edition
ideal for in-class use. Every play introduction, note, gloss and
bibliography has been reconsidered in light of reviewers'
suggestions, and new textual introductions and performance notes
reflect the extensive new scholarship in these fields.
These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare
bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects
current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative
teaching features. The print and digital bundles offer students a
great reading experience in two ways-printed volumes for their
lifetime library and digital editions ideal for in-class use. Every
introduction, note, gloss and bibliography has been reconsidered in
light of reviewers' suggestions, and new textual introductions and
performance notes reflect the extensive new scholarship in these
fields. The ebooks are accessed with The Norton Shakespeare Digital
Edition registration code included in the print volumes.
Fresh explorations of the tragicomic drama, setting the familiar
plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries alongside Irish and
European drama. Tragicomedy is one of the most important dramatic
genres in Renaissance literature, and the essays collected here
offer stimulating new perspectives and insights, as well as
providing broad introductions to arguably lesser-known European
texts. Alongside the chapters on Classical, Italian, Spanish, and
French material, there are striking and fresh approaches to
Shakespeare and his contemporaries -- to the origins of mixed genre
in English, to the development of Shakespearean and Fletcherian
drama, to periodization in Shakespeare's career, to the language of
tragicomedy, and to the theological structure of genre. The
collection concludes with two essays on Irish theatre and its
interactions with the London stage, further evidence of the
persistent and changing energy of tragicomedy in the period.
Contributors: SARAH DEWAR-WATSON, MATTHEW TREHERNE, ROBERT HENKE,
GERAINT EVANS, NICHOLAS HAMMOND, ROSKING, SUZANNE GOSSETT, GORDAN
MCMULLAN, MICHAEL WINMORE, JONATHAN HOPE, MICHAEL NEILL, LUCY
MUNRO, DEANA RANKIN
These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare
bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects
current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative
teaching features. The print and digital bundles offer students a
great reading experience in two ways-printed volumes for their
lifetime library and digital editions ideal for in-class use. Every
introduction, note, gloss and bibliography has been reconsidered in
light of reviewers' suggestions, and new textual introductions and
performance notes reflect the extensive new scholarship in these
fields. The ebooks are accessed with The Norton Shakespeare Digital
Edition registration code included in the print volumes.
These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare
bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects
current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative
teaching features. The print and digital bundles offer students a
great reading experience in two ways-printed volumes for their
lifetime library and digital editions ideal for in-class use. Every
introduction, note, gloss and bibliography has been reconsidered in
light of reviewers' suggestions, and new textual introductions and
performance notes reflect the extensive new scholarship in these
fields. The ebooks are accessed with The Norton Shakespeare Digital
Edition registration code included in the print volumes.
"King Henry VIII" has one of the fullest theatrical histories of
any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently
misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition
offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered,
collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the
progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's
day as a series of bewildering changes in national and personal
allegiance and represents "history" as the product of varied and
contradictory testimony. McMullan makes a powerful claim for the
rehabilitation of "Henry VIII," providing the fullest performance
history of any edition to date and reading the work not as a
marginal "late" Shakespeare play but as a play which is
paradigmatic of the achievement of Renaissance drama as a whole.
His introduction emphasizes truth and conscience and the dramatic
devices used to portray these themes. This edition's appendices
elucidate the chronology for the events portrayed in "King Henry
VIII" and other source works. A scene from Beaumont and Fletcher's
"A Maid's Tragedy," comments on music, a doubling chart, and other
reference information are also included. The Arden Shakespeare has
developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of
Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the
thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively
contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that
surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing
and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the
work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting,
and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full
commentary by one or more of the play's foremost contemporary
scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and
drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain
allusions and significant background information. Highly
informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of
Shakespeare available to a reader.
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsGeneral Editors' PrefacePreface
INTRODUCTIONAuthenticities: performance history Date and early
performances Performances 1660-1916 Performances 1916-2000All is
true: cultural history Truth and topicality Royal reputations The
conscience of the King Truth and temperance Truth and textuality
Truth and tragicomedy The character of the Queen Hidden
reformations Truth and topicality: codaOriginals: textual history
Text and modernization Resources Sources Analogues Collaboration
KING HENRY VIII (ALL IS TRUE) Longer notes APPENDICES1. Contextual
chronology for the events of "Henry VIII"2. Comparative chronology
(1603-13) for plays in the Fletcher and Shakespeare canons3.
Attribution and composition4. The Maid's Tragedy5. Uncollected
sources/analogues6. Music7 Doubling chart Abbreviations and
references Abbreviations used in notes Works in the Shakespeare
canon Works in the Fletcher canon Editions of Shakespeare collated
Other works Modern productions cited Film/television productions
cited Index
These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare
bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects
current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative
teaching features. The print and digital bundles offer students a
great reading experience in two ways-printed volumes for their
lifetime library and digital editions ideal for in-class use. Every
introduction, note, gloss and bibliography has been reconsidered in
light of reviewers' suggestions, and new textual introductions and
performance notes reflect the extensive new scholarship in these
fields. The ebooks are accessed with The Norton Shakespeare Digital
Edition registration code included in the print volumes.
Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and
sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early
modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores
the senses in his literary craft, his fictional worlds, and his
stagecraft. 15 substantial new essays by leading Shakespeareans
working in sensory studies and related disciplines interrogate
every aspect of Shakespeare and sense, from the place of hearing,
smell, sight, touch, and taste in early modern life, literature,
and performance culture, through to the significance of sensation
in 21st century engagements with Shakespeare on stage, screen and
page. The volume explores and develops current methods for studying
Shakespeare and sensation, reflecting upon the opportunities and
challenges created by this emergent and influential area of
scholarly enquiry. Many chapters develop fresh readings of
particular plays and poems, from Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream,
King Lear, and The Tempest to less-studied works such as The Comedy
of Errors, Venus and Adonis, Troilus and Cressida, and Cymbeline.
These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare
bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects
current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative
teaching features. The print and digital bundles offer students a
great reading experience in two ways-printed volumes for their
lifetime library and digital editions ideal for in-class use. Every
introduction, note, gloss and bibliography has been reconsidered in
light of reviewers' suggestions, and new textual introductions and
performance notes reflect the extensive new scholarship in these
fields. The ebooks are accessed with The Norton Shakespeare Digital
Edition registration code included in the print volumes.
Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and
sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early
modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores
the senses in his literary craft, his fictional worlds, and his
stagecraft. 15 substantial new essays by leading Shakespeareans
working in sensory studies and related disciplines interrogate
every aspect of Shakespeare and sense, from the place of hearing,
smell, sight, touch, and taste in early modern life, literature,
and performance culture, through to the significance of sensation
in 21st century engagements with Shakespeare on stage, screen and
page. The volume explores and develops current methods for studying
Shakespeare and sensation, reflecting upon the opportunities and
challenges created by this emergent and influential area of
scholarly enquiry. Many chapters develop fresh readings of
particular plays and poems, from Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream,
King Lear, and The Tempest to less-studied works such as The Comedy
of Errors, Venus and Adonis, Troilus and Cressida, and Cymbeline.
Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of
‘space’ in and through Shakespeare’s plays, as well as to the
cognitive, material and virtual spaces in which they are enacted.
With contributions from 14 leading experts in their fields, the
collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies
and cultural geography, cognitive studies, phenomenology and the
history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and
language, translation studies, memory studies, theatre history and
performance studies. Each chapter offers methodological reflections
on intersections such as space/cognition, space/emotion,
space/geopoetics, space/embodiment, space/language, space/virtual,
whose critical purchase is demonstrated in close-readings of one or
several plays. The essays assembled here testify to the importance
of space for our understanding of Shakespeare’s creative and
theatrical practice, and at the same time enlarge our understanding
of space as a critical concept in the humanities. It will prove
useful to students, scholars, teachers and theatre practitioners of
Shakespeare and early modern studies.
Act and scene divisions are not indicated in the Quarto; those of
the First Folio have been incorporated, with one exception: scene
ii of Act V has been divided into two scenes, with the concluding
scenes numbered accordingly. The Third Edition includes expanded
annotations. "Contexts and Sources" includes dueling arguments on
the play s completeness (one play or one half of a play?) and the
naming of a central character (Falstaff or Oldcastle?). "Criticism"
includes twenty-four essays from E. M. W. Tillyard s classic
argument of an ordered Shakespearean universe to Graham Holderness
s rebuttal to Gus Van Sant s interview regarding 1 Henry IV as the
inspiration for his cult film, My Own Private Idaho nineteen of
them new to the Third Edition. The Selected Bibliography has been
thoroughly updated."
Shakespeare / Nature sets new agendas for the study of nature in
Shakespeare's work. Offering an expansive exploration of the
intersections between the human and non-human worlds, chapters by
19 experts focus on the rich and persuasive language of nature,
both as organic matter and cultural conditioning. Each chapter is
grounded in a close reading of Shakespeare's plays and poems and
among the many themes considered are natural theology in Macbeth;
the influence of the stars in Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Hamlet
and Macbeth; monstrous bodies in Richard III and The Tempest;
kinship in King Henry V; places and spaces in Love's Labour's Lost,
and acting sex scenes in a range of plays including Measure for
Measure, Titus Andronicus and The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Approaching ‘Nature’ in all its diversity, this collection
explores the multifaceted and complex ways in which the human and
non-human worlds intersect and the development of a language of
symbiosis that attempts to both control as well as create the terms
of human authority. It offers an entirely new approach to the
subject of nature, bringing together divergent approaches that have
previously been pursued independently so as to explore their shared
investment in the intersections between the human and non-human
worlds and how these discourses shape and condition the emotional,
organic, cultural, and psychological landscapes of Shakespeare’s
play world. Contributors approach Shakespeare’s nature through
the various lenses of philosophy, historicism, psychoanalysis,
gender studies, cosmography, geography, sexuality, linguistics,
environmentalism, feminism and robotics to provide new and nuanced
readings of the intersectional terms of both meaning and matter.
Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the
Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual
matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary - such
as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha,
sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and
original/copy - that has come to both define and limit the way we
read, analyze, teach, perform and edit Shakespeare today. Drawing
on methods from book history, bibliography, editorial theory,
library science, the digital humanities, theatre studies and
literary criticism, the collection as a whole proposes that our
understanding of Shakespeare - and early modern drama more broadly
- changes radically when 'either/or' approaches to the
Shakespearean text are reconfigured. The chapters in Shakespeare /
Text make strong cases for challenging received wisdom and offer
new, portable methods of treating 'the text', in its myriad
instantiations, that will be useful to scholars, editors, theatre
practitioners, teachers and librarians.
Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare
and sex by challenging readers to consider Shakespeare’s texts in
light of the most recent theoretical approaches to gender and
sexuality studies. It takes as its premise that gender and
sexuality studies are key to any interpretation of Shakespeare, be
it his texts and their historical contexts, contemporary stage and
cinematic productions, or adaptations from the Restoration to the
present day. Approaching ‘sex’ from four main perspectives –
heterosexuality, third-wave intersectional feminism, queer studies
and trans studies – this book tackles a range of key topics, such
as medical science, rape culture, the environment, disability,
religion, childhood sexuality, race, homoeroticism and trans
bodies. The 12 essays range across Shakespeare’s poems and plays,
including the Sonnets and The Rape of Lucrece, Coriolanus, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Richard III and The
Two Noble Kinsmen. Encouraged to push the envelope, contributors to
this essay collection open new avenues of inquiry for the study of
gender and sexuality in Shakespeare.
Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare
Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment
in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global
culture - much more than has been remembered. This book offers new
archival discoveries about, and new interpretations of, the
Tercentenary celebrations in Britain, Australia and New Zealand and
reflects on the long legacy of those celebrations. This collection
gathers together five scholars from Britain, Australia and New
Zealand to reflect on the modes of commemoration of Shakespeare
across the hemispheres in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916. It
was at this moment of remembering in 1916 that 'global Shakespeare'
first emerged in recognizable form. Each contributor performs their
own 'antipodal' reading, assessing in parallel events across two
hemispheres, geographically opposite but politically and culturally
connected in the wake of empire.
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