Shakespeare Studies

Volume 51

James R. Siemon, Diana E. Henderson

• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781683933915
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Essays
• Index: Literature

Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual and artistic contexts that extend well beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. In addition to articles, Shakespeare Studies offers opportunities for extended intellectual exchange through its thematically-focused forums, and includes substantial reviews. An international Editorial Board maintains the quality of each volume so that Shakespeare Studies may serve as a reliable resource for all students of Shakespeare and the early modern period – for research scholars and also for teachers, actors and directors.
Volume 51 includes a Forum on the work of Michael D Bristol, with contributions from J. F. Bernard, Gail Kern Paster, James Siemon, Jill Ingram, Unhae Park Langis and Julia Reinhard Lupton, Anna Lewton-Brain and Brooke Harvey, Nicholas Utzig, and Paul Yachnin.
Volume 51 includes articles from the Next Generation Plenary of the Shakespeare Association of America and essays by Laurence Senelick ("A Gift to Anti-Semites: Shylock on the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Stage"), Christopher D'Addario ("Metatheater and the Urban Everyday in Ben Jonson's Epicoene and The Alchemist"), and Denise A. Walen ("Elbowing Katherine of Valois").
Book reviews consider eleven important publications on liberty of speech and female voice; theaters of catastrophe; adaptations of Macbeth; staging touch in Shakespeare's England; the criticism of Hugh Grady; Shakespeare and World War II film; Shakespeare and digital pedagogy; Shakespeare and forgetting; Shakespeare and disability studies, and Shakespeare's private life.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Contents
• Forum
• Big-Time Shakespeare, Calvin and Hobbes, and Sandy Koufax: How Michael Bristol Ruined My Life
• “I have Drunk and Seen the Spider”: Cognition, Affect, and the Carnivalesque in The Winter’s Tale
• “Married in Conjunction”? Shakespearean Conversations and Complications
• Michael Bristol’s Heuristics of Carnival in London’s Civic Pageantry
• Shakespeare’s Virtues for Our Times
• Trauma-Informed “Vernacular Criticism” and Pedagogy: A Case Study of Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece
• Shakespearean Jus Post Bellum: Ethical Ends to War in
• Shakespeare’s Gifts: Commerce, Conversation, Conversion
• Introduction
• How to Do Things with Sweat
• The Specter of Disability in Early Modern Drama
• The Devil You Know: Anti-Black Racism and the Mythologies of English Witchcraft
• Epicene: Female Revenge in the Husband-Taming Comedy
• Did Environmental Catastrophe Have a Renaissance?
• Articles
• A Gift to Anti-Semites: Shylock on the Prerevolutionary Russian Stage
• Metatheater and the Urban Everyday in Ben Jonson’s Epicoene and The Alchemist
• Elbowing Katherine of Valois
• Review Essay
• Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England
• Reviews
• King Lear “After” Auschwitz: Shakespeare, Appropriation and Theatres of Catastrophe in Post-War British Drama
• Shakespeare and British World War Two Film
• Shakespeare’s Dialectic of Hope: From the Political to the Utopian
• Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy: Case Studies and Strategies
• Shakespeare and Forgetting
• Shakespeare and Disability Studies
• Staging Touch in Shakespeare’s England
• The Private Life of William Shakespeare
• About the Editors and Contributors