The Shakespearean world / edited by Jill L. Levenson and Robert Ormsby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levenson, Jill L., editor.

Ormsby, Robert, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Routledge worlds

The Routledge worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 654 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volume has acquired an array of meanings over the past four centuries. "Shakespeare" signifies the historical person, as well as the plays and verse attributed to him. It also signifies the attitudes towards both author and works determined by their receptions. Throughout the book, specialists aim to situate Shakespeare's world and what the world is because of him. In adopting a global perspective, the volume arranges thirty-six chapters in five parts: Shakespeare on stage internationally since the late seventeenth century; Shakespeare on film throughout the world; Shakespeare in the arts beyond drama and performance; Shakespeare in everyday life; Shakespeare and critical practice. Through its coverage, The Shakespearean World offers a comprehensive transhistorical and international view of the ways this Shakespeare has not only influenced but has also been influenced by diverse cultures during 400 years of performance, adaptation, criticism, and citation. While each chapter is a freshly conceived introduction to a significant topic, all of the chapters move beyond the level of survey, suggesting new directions in Shakespeare studies - such as ecology, tourism, and new media - and making substantial contributions to the field. This volume is an essential resource for all those studying Shakespeare, from beginners to advanced specialists. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Shakespeare on stage since the late seventeenth century. Staging Shakespeare in England since the restoration / Kathryn Prince

Shakespeare on stage in Europe since the late seventeenth century / Martin Procházka, Marta Gibińska and Florence March

Shakespeare on American stages / James C. Bulman

Shakespeare in Latin America: appropriation, politics, and performance practices / Maria Clara Galery and Anna Stegh Cammati

Middle Eastern Shakespeares / Margaret Litvin, Avraham Oz and Parviz Partovi

Shakespeare in Africa / Sandra Young

Interacting with naturalism: East Asian Shakespeare performances / Yong Li Lan

Kissing and drowning The Book: Shakespearean theatre in the Antipodes / Rob Conkie and Nicola Hyland.

Part III. Shakespeare in the arts beyond drama and performance. The Subject of Shake-speares Sonnets and afterlife in lyric poetry / Peter Robinson

Shakespeare and the novel: "For that which had been lost was found, and so on" / Jane Kingsley-Smith

Shakespeare and non-fiction: in search of the biography / Katherine Scheil

Interpreting Shakespeare through the visual arts / Jim Davis

The Shakespearean World of Music / Christy Desmet and David M. Schiller.

Part IV. Shakespeare in everyday life. Shakespeare and education: the making of an unlikely marriage / Kate Flaherty

Conjuring Shakespeare for young audiences through fairy Tales, fable, and fantasy / Naomi J. Miller

Shakespeare in Amateur Production / Stephen Purcell

"Prithee, listen well": The case for audio Shakespeare / Michael P. Jensen

Sticky or Spreadable? Shakespeare and Global Television / Susanne Greenhalgh

Shakespearean tourism: from national heritage to global attraction / Robert Ormsby

"Within this wooden [2.]O": Shakespeare and new media in the digital age / Brett Greatly-Hirsch and Michael Best.

Part V. Shakespeare and critical practice. Shakespeare's texts and editions / Eugene Giddens

Shakespearean archives: context, categories, and the containment of chaos / Christie Carson

Shakespeare's language: an eventful afterlife / Keith Johnson

Shakespeare and philosophy / Peter Holbrook

Political approaches to Shakespeare / Hugh Grady

Religion, secularity, and Shakespeare / Arthur F. Marotti and Ken Jackson

Shakespeare and psychology: "who's there?" Murray M. Schwartz and David Willbern

Shakespeare and early modern race studies: an overview of the field / Jason Demeter and Ayanna Thompson

New economies of gender and sexuality: rereading the Shakespearean body / Susan Bennett and Nicole Edge

Shakespeare, ecology, and ecocriticism / Randall Martin

The Shakespearean legal imaginary / Karen J. Cunningham.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780415732529

0415732522

OCLC:

966632082

Publisher Number:

40027090475