Shakespeare and emotion / edited by Katharine A. Craik, Oxford Brookes University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Craik, Katharine A., editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Emotions in literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Shakespeare and Emotion devotes sustained attention to the emotions as a novel way of exploring Shakespeare's works in their original contexts. A variety of disciplinary approaches drawn from literary, theatrical, historical, cultural and film studies brings the recent upsurge of interest in affect into conversation with some of the most urgent debates in Shakespeare studies. The volume provides both a comprehensive account of the current state of scholarship and a speculative forum for new research. Its chapters outline some important contexts for understanding Shakespeare's creativity through an emotional lens - from religion, rhetoric, and medicine, to language, acting and Bollywood - and offer a range of case studies which reveal particular emotions at work. Considering emotional and passionate experience as an animating and sometimes alienating force within the plays and poems, the volume highlights the continuing importance of Shakespeare today: for our sense of who we are and who we might become"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I CONTEXTS

1. Rhetoric: Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar / Neil Rhodes

2. Medicine: King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest / Elizabeth D. Harvey

3. Religion: Henry VI, Henry IV, Henry V / Elizabeth Williamson

4. Character: As You Like It, Hamlet / Robert White

5. Inheritance and Innovation: Richard III, 3 Henry VI, Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens / Christopher Tilmouth

6. Communities: Julius Caesar / Gail Kern Paster

7. Audiences: Much Ado about Nothing, Measure for Measure / Tanya Pollard

8. Acting: The Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus / Bridget Escolme

9. Bollywood: Macbeth, Othello / Melissa Croteau

10. Language: Macbeth, King Lear / Philip Davis

11. Emotional Labour: Hamlet / Ross Knecht

12. Passionate Shakespeare / Peter Holbrook

pt. II EMOTIONS

13. Fear: Macbeth, Othello / Toria Johnson

14. Grief: Hamlet / Erin Sullivan

15. Sympathy: Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet / Richard Meek

16. Shame: A Lover's Complaint, Coriolanus, The Rape of Lucrece / Lesel Dawson

17. Anger: Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens / Gwynne Kennedy

18. Pride: Coriolanus / Indira Ghose

19. Happiness: Othello, I Henry IV, Antony and Cleopatra / Richard Strier

20. Love: Sonnets, A Midsummer Night's Dream / David Schalkivyk

21. Nostalgia: Richard II, Henry V, Henry VI / Hester Lees-Jeffries

22. Wonder: Pericles, The Tempest, `The Phoenix and the Turtle' / Tom Bishop

23. Confusion: Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter's Tale / Timothy M. Harrison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Shakespeare and emotion

ISBN:

9781108416160

1108416160

9781108402668

1108402666

OCLC:

1152356888