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Shakespeare Without Boundaries : Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jansohn, Christa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boundaries in literature.
- Criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : University of Delaware Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- This collection of essays, titled 'Shakespeare without Boundaries,' is a tribute to Dieter Mehl, a distinguished scholar of Renaissance and medieval literature. Edited by Christa Jansohn, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Stanley Wells, the compilation honors Mehl's influential work in Shakespeare studies, highlighting his efforts to explore the boundaries of literature, genre, and culture. The essays, contributed by an international team of scholars, examine the flexible nature of boundaries in literary criticism and the importance of understanding these demarcations in the study of Shakespeare. The volume is aimed at a scholarly audience, particularly those interested in Shakespeare and theoretical literary issues, and reflects Mehl's lifelong dedication to expanding the horizons of academic inquiry. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Illustrations
- Foreword: Shakespeare without Boundaries
- Dieter Mehl: The Boundary Crosser
- I Early Modern Playwriting and Editing: Boundaries and Thoroughfares
- The Limitations of the First Folio
- Anonymous Was a Woman
- Thomas Heywood, Script-Doctor
- II Beyond the Bounds of Medium: From Page to Stage to World Wide Web
- Performance and the Play-Text
- “He shifteth his speech”: Accents and Dialects in Plays by Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
- Shakespeare and Dance:Dissolving Boundaries
- Passing Through: Shakespeare, Theater Companies, and the Internet
- III Crossing Intratextual Boundaries
- Making Mistakes: Shakespeare, Metonymy, and Hamlet
- Dot Dot or Dash: A Strange SOS from Prospero’s Island
- The Problematization of Generic Boundaries: Lyrical Inroads into Shakespeare’s Dramatic Dialogue
- IV Crossing Intertextual Boundaries
- William and Geoffrey
- “It will have blood they say; blood will have blood”—Proverb Usage and the Vague and Undetermined Places of Macbeth
- The Fall of a Sparrow: Shakespearean Tragedy and the Bible
- V Dissolving National Boundaries
- Foundational Myth in Cymbeline
- Shakespeare and Velázquez
- Crossing the Dotted Line: Shakespeare and Geography
- VI Boundary Crossings: Translation and National Discourses
- “there’s the rub”: Translating Hamlet’s Thought Process
- “Bottom, thou art translated”: Translation as a Boundary and a Bridge
- Hamlet across Boundaries of Language and Genre in Jacinto Benavente’s Comedy Hamlet’s Jester
- VII Boundary Crossings: “Afterlives”; or, Shakespeare without Boundaries
- Hamlet’s Furniture: Shakespeare Sat Here Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781644531587
- 1644531585
- OCLC:
- 1243514373
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