Shakespeare 1971 : Proceedings of the World Shakespeare Congress Vancouver, August 1971 / Clifford Leech, John Margeson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leech, Clifford, Editor.

Margeson, John, Editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Leading Shakespeare scholars from around the world gathered at the First World Shakespeare Congress held in Vancouver in August 1971. This volume presents a carefully selected edition of twenty of the papers presented at the Congress, including all available papers in the plenary sessions, a few of the pecial sessions papers, 'an address at a banquet,' and the reports of the chairmen of the Investigative Committees. The contributors focus on eight general themes: C. Walter Hodges and Herbert Berry on the Elizabethan playhouse; M.C. Bradbrook, Charlton Hinman, and Fredson Bowers on text and canon; Jonas A. Barish and G.R. Hibbard on verse and prose; Norman Rabkin on critical approaches to Shakespeare; David Bevington and Wolfgang Clemen on Shakespeare and his Elizabethan contemporaries; H.D.F. Kitto and Michel Grivelet on Shakespeare and the dramatists of other ages; Jean Jacquiot and R.W. Ingram on Shakespeare and other arts, and Grigori Kozintsev and Bernard Beckerman on Shakespeare in theatre and film in the twentieth century. Three papers presented at special sessions are included: Jill Levenson on the silences in King Lear; Robert Wrimann on Shakespeare's wordplay; and John C. Meagher on editorial annotation in relation to a few problems in King Lear. The high level of scholarship and remarkable diversity of approach in Shakespeare studies are clearly demonstrated in this collection.

Contents:

[1.] Elizabethan theatre: The arguments for and against attempting a full-scale reconstruction of an Elizabethan playhouse, and the uses such a building might (or might not) have / C. Walter Hodges

The playhouse in the Boar's Head Inn, Whitechapel, III / Herbert Berry

[2.] Text and canon: Shakespeare and his collaborators / M.C. Bradbrook

Shakespearian textual studies: seven more years / Charlton Hinman

Seven or more years? / Fredson Bowers

[3.] Verse and prose: Continuities and discontinuities in Shakespearian prose / Jonas A. Barish

'The forced gait of a shuffling nag' / G.R. Hibbard

[4.] Critical approaches: Meaning and Shakespeare / Norman Rabkin

[5.] Shakespeare and his Elizabethan contemporaries: Shakespeare vs Jonson on satire / David Bevington

Shakespeare and Marlowe / Wolfgang Clemen

[6.] Shakespeare and the dramatists of other ages: Why blame Aristotle? / H.D.F. Kitto

Racine's dream of passion / Michel Grivelet

[7.] Shakespeare and the other arts: The last plays and the masque / Jean Jacquot

Music as structural element in Shakespeare / R.W. Ingram

[8.] Shakespeare in the twentieth century: theatre and film: 'Hamlet' and 'King Lear': stage and film / Grigori Kozintsev

The flowers of fancy, the jerks of invention, or, directorial approaches to Shakespeare / Bernard Beckerman

[9.] Special sessions: What the silence said: still points in 'King Lear' / Jill Levenson

Shakespeare's wordplay: popular origins and theatrical functions / Robert Weimann

Vanity, Lear's feather, and the pathology of editorial annotation / John C. Meagher

An address at a banquet / Roy Daniells.

Notes:

"Reprinted 2018"--Title page verso.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-7609-9

OCLC:

1153500666