Shakespeare's Hamlet in an era of textual exhaustion / edited by Sonya Freeman Loftis, Allison Kellar, and Lisa Ulevich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loftis, Sonya Freeman, 1983- editor.

Kellar, Allison, editor.

Ulevich, Lisa, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 25.

Routledge Studies in Shakespeare ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism, Textual.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Hamlet (Shakespeare, William).

Genre:

Adaptations.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 247 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction. Post-Hamlet / Sonya Freeman Loftis, Allison Kellar, and Lisa Ulevich.

Section I. Post-Hamlet Appropriations. Posthuman Hamlets: ghosts in the machine / Todd Andrew Borlik

Or not to be: dancing beyond Hamlet in Christopher Wheeldon’s Misericordes/Elsinore / Elizabeth Klett

"It’s the Opheliac in me": Ophelia, Emilie Autumn, and the role of Hamlet in discussing mental disability / Chloe Owen

"I the matter will reword": the ghost of Hamlet in translation / Jim Casey

Locating Hamlet in Kashmir: Haider, terrorism, and Shakespearean transmission / Amrita Sen.

Section II. Post-Hamlet performances. "Denmark is a prison": Hamlet for inclusive and incarcerated audiences / Sheila T. Cavanagh

Revisionist Q1 and the poetics of alternatives: vindicating Hamlet’s "bad" Quarto on page and stage in Japan and beyond / Yi-Hsin Hsu

"Poem unlimited, space unlimited": the case of the naked Hamlet / Adam Sheaffer.

Section III. Post-Hamlet classrooms. After words: Hamlet’s unfinished business in the liberal arts classroom / Deneen Senasi

"Read freely, my dear": education and agency in Lisa Klein’s Ophelia / Victoria R. Farmer

To relate or not to relate: questioning the pedagogical value of relatable Hamlet / Erin M. Presley.

Section IV. Post-Hamlet post-script. DIE-JESTING stURNe’s BURIALLs: publication, plagiarism, pseudonymity, pseudography, cenography, palimpsestuosity, posthumography, and the propriety or pathos of posterity / Richard Burt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781138291270

1138291277

OCLC:

998750767

Publisher Number:

99975098044