Histories of the Future : On Shakespeare and Thinking Ahead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazzio, Carla.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Study and teaching.

Future, The, in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

Summary:

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Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction. What the Future Holds: Shakespearean Futures, Now and Then

I. Futures in the Balance: The Ends of Shakespearean Drama

1. Earth Dies Burning: Futurity and the Unfinished in Timon of Athens

2. Marlowe’s Queer Futures: Edward and Richard, the Second

3. Racial Futurity in King Lear

4. Fair Hazards: Risk, Race, Justice, and the Future of The Merchant of Venice

5. Shakespeare Studies and the Indigenous Turn

II. Arts of Looking Ahead: Catastrophe, Contingency, Prophecy

6. Four Shakespearean Catastrophes

7. Recovering Contingency: Possible Outcomes for Julius Caesar

8. Prophecy Without Futurity: Joan Puzel and the Social Life of Foresight in 1 Henry VI

III. Remembrance of Things to Come: Remediating Shakespeares

9. Shakespeare’s Viral Futurities: Memory and the Poetics of Infection

10. Shakespeare’s Tragic Capital: The Future in the Past in Edward Bond’s Bingo

11. After words, words, words: Hamlet on the Border

Notes

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

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ISBN:

9781512825299

1512825298

OCLC:

1452269330