Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances

Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress

Martin Procházka, Andreas Hoefele, Hanna Scolnicov, Michael Dobson, Martin Procházka, Andreas Hoefele, Hanna Scolnicov, Michael Dobson

• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781644530580
  9781644530573
• eBook ISBN:
  9781644530597
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare's plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions, book culture, translations, film and television adaptations, festivals, and national heritage. The last section of the book focuses on the afterlife of Shakespeare in the work of the leading British dramatist Tom Stoppard.

Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
 

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Part I: Renaissance Shakespeare: Interpretations, Performance, and Contexts
• Chapter 1: Shakespeare
• Interpretations
• Chapter 2: Talbot, Incorporated
• Chapter 3: Hamlet and the French Wars of Religion
• Chapter 4: Ecology, Evolution, and Hamlet
• Chapter 5: The Anticipatory Premise of History in the Reception of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• Chapter 6: The Balance of Power in King Lear’s Kingdoms
• Chapter 7: “Here’s a Strange Alteration”
• Chapter 8: Making Visible
• Chapter 9: A Legal Assessment of the Circumstantial Evidence in The Winter’s Tale
• Chapter 10: Shakespeare’s Lost Pastorals
• Performance
• Chapter 11: Shakespeare and Festival
• Chapter 12: Using On-Screen Modeling to Examine Shakespearean Stage Performance
• Chapter 13: What Are We Doing When We’re “Doing Shakespeare”?
• Contexts
• Chapter 14: The Queen of Bohemia’s Wedding
• Chapter 15: The Puritan Widow and London Parishes
• Chapter 16: Old Repertory, New Theatre
• Chapter 17: “A Plague o’ These Pickle Herring”
• Part II: Shakespeare Renaissances: Appropriations, Adaptations, and Afterlives
• Chapter 18: Shakespeare’s Theatre of Language
• Chapter 19: Directing Shakespeare
• Appropriations
• Chapter 20: Shakespeare’s Undiplomatic Readers
• Chapter 21: Shakespeare
• Chapter 22: Shakespeare in Habsburg Transylvania
• Chapter 23: Between the East and the West
• Chapter 24: “The Chap That Writes Like Synge”
• Chapter 25: “Ease and Deliciousness”
• Chapter 26: The Staging of The Merchant of Venice and Othello by Greek Political Exiles (1951–1953)
• Chapter 27: Reasoning the Need
• Chapter 28: An Anthropology of Italian Theory
• Chapter 29: Robert Lepage among the Huron-Wendat
• Chapter 30: Shakespeare and American Bilingualism
• Chapter 31: The Brazilian Accent of Othello
• Chapter 32: Tragedy’s Honor, and Ours
• Adaptations
• Chapter 33: The Politics of Rape in Nahum Tate’s The History of King Lear, 1681
• Chapter 34: (Re)Touching
• Chapter 35: Happily Never After?
• Chapter 36: Singing to Shakespeare in Omkara
• Chapter 37: Renegotiating Female Power
• Chapter 38: Stratford Revisited
• Afterlives: Tom Stoppard and Shakespeare
• Chapter 39: Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Stoppard
• Chapter 40: The Stoppard Chronicles
• Chapter 41: Stoppard and Shakespeare
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Notes on Contributors and Editors