Shakespeare/sense : contemporary readings in sensory culture / edited by Simon Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Simon, 1984- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Arden Shakespeare intersections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senses and sensation in literature.

Senses and sensation in the theater.

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Shakespeare sense

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : The Arden Shakespeare, 2020.

Summary:

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.--Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Theorizing sensation

1. Framing Shakespeare's senses / Bruce R. Smith

2. Admiring the nothing of it: Shakespeare and the senseless / Steven Connor

3. The classical tradition / Tanya Pollard

pt. Two The early modern sensorium

4. `Sweet above compare'? Disputing about taste in Venus and Adonis, Love's Labours Lost, Othello, and Troilus and Cressida / Elizabeth L. Swann

5. Hamlet's visual stagecraft and early modern cultures of sight / Simon Smith

6. The smell of a king: Olfaction in King Lear Holly Dugan

7. `Amorous pinches': Keeping (in)tact in Antony and Cleopatra / Jennifer Edwards

8. Hearing at the surface in The Comedy of Errors Katherine Hunt

pt. Three Entangled senses

9. Sense, reason, and the animal-human boundary in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Natalie K. Eschenbaum

10. Sense and community: Twelfth Night and early modern playgoing / Jackie Watson

11. Simular proof and senseless feeling: Synaesthetic overload in Cymbeline / Darryl Chalk

12. Pinching Caliban: Race, husbandry, and the working body in The Tempest / Patricia Akhimie

pt. Four Sensing Shakespeare

13. Shakespeare and the seven senses: Scenes from the twenty-first-century stage / Erin Sullivan

14. Parted eyes and generation gaps in twenty-first-century perceptions of screen Shakespeare Diana / E. Henderson

15. The senses and material texts Adam Smyth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-370) and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781474273237

1474273238

OCLC:

1151992377

Publisher Number:

99986383561