"A latest edition in an annual series devoted to Shakespearean study and production is built around the theme of ""Shakespeare and War,"" and features articles collected from the 2018 International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon."
The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the programme of the International Shakespeare Conference held in Stratford-upon-Avon in the summer of 2018. The theme is 'Shakespeare and War'.
The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The theme is 'Shakespeare and War'.
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' it is a most useful collection offering many new insights into Shakespeare's plays. It proves particularly instructive, often original, and always pleasant to read.' Sophie Chiari, Cercles
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The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The theme is 'Shakespeare and War'.
List of illustrations;
1. Henry V after the War on Terror Ramona Wray;
2. Economies of gunpowder and ecologies of peace: accounting for
sustainability; Randall Martin;
3. Shakespeare and religious war: new
developments on the Italian sources of Twelfth Night Elisabetta Tarantino;
4.
'Thou laidst no sieges to the music-room': anatomising wars, staging battles
Michael Hattaway;
5. Shakespearian narratives of war: trauma; repetition; and
metaphor Ros King;
6. War without Shakespeare: reading Shakespearean absence,
16421649 Eoin Price;
7. Antic dispositions: Shakespeare, war, and cabaret
Irene Makaryk;
8. The comedy of Hamlet in Nazi-occupied Warsaw: an
exploration of Lubitsch's To be or not to be (1942) Reiko Oya;
9. The lion
and the lamb: Hamlet in London during World War II Zoltįn Mįrkus;
10.
Dividing to conquer or joining the ReSisters: Shakespeare's Lady Anne (and
Woolf's Three Guineas) in the wake of #MeToo Diana Henderson;
11. The
Homeland of Coriolanus: war homecomings between Shakespeare's stage and
current complex TV Christina Wald;
12. Scholarly method, truth, and evidence
in Shakespearian textual studies Gabriel Egan;
13. Beautiful polecats: the
living and the dead in Julius Caesar Lisa Hopkins;
14. Ancient aesthetics and
current conflicts: Indian Rasa theory and Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider (2014)
Melissa Croteau;
15. Failure to thrive Elizabeth Mazzola;
16. Tippett's
Tempest: Shakespeare in The Knot Garden Michael Graham;
17. Tautological
character: Troilus and Cressida and the problems of personation Samuel
Fallon;
18. 'Rude wind': King Lear canonicity versus physicality Peter
Smith;
19. Content but also unwell: distributed character and language in The
Merchant of Venice Elena Pellone and David Schalkwyk;
20. This autistic
island's mine: neurodiversity, autistic culture, and the Hunter Heartbeat
Method Sonya Freeman Loftis;
21. The Senecan tragedy of Feste in Twelfth
Night Judith Rosenheim;
22. Shakespearean performance in England, 2018
Stephen Purcell and Paul Prescott;
23. Professional Shakespeare productions
in the British Isles, 2017 James Shaw;
24. The year's contribution to
Shakespeare studies: critical studies reviewed by Charlotte Scott;
Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Russell Jackson; Editions and textual
studies reviewed by Peter Kirwan; Abstracts.
Emma Smith is Director of English Studies at Hertford College, Oxford. She has a broad range of Shakespearean expertise, in terms of performance, criticism and the preparation of textual editions, and has written for students, theatregoers and scholars. Her list of publications includes a performance edition of King Henry V (Cambridge, 2002). She co-edited The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (Cambridge, 2010). For undergraduate readers she wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2007) and The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide (Cambridge, 2012). More recently she has turned her attention to the cultural history of the First Folio, and published a book with the Bodleian Library to accompany the 2016 touring exhibition; in the same year she published The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio (Cambridge, 2016).
