The Shakespearean International Yearbook
Subtitle: Volume 4: Shakespeare Studies Today
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781351145329
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare' throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece, France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance, issues of character, and other topics."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I SPECIAL SECTION --; title: Shakespeare in the Age of Cognitive Science  -- Mark Turner; title: chapter 1 The Physics of King Lear: Cognition in a Void  -- Mary Thomas Crane; title: chapter 2 'The suburbs of your good pleasure': Cognition, Culture and the Bases of Metaphoric Structure  -- Eve Sweetser; title: chapter 3 Othello and the 'Ocular Proof'  -- Donald C. Freeman; title: chapter 4 The Ghost of Anyone's Father  -- Mark Turner; title: chapter 5 Precious Nonsense and the Conduit Metaphor  -- Graham Bradshaw; title: chapter 6 Metaphors and Meaning in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73  -- Per Aage Brandt; title: part, II New Hamlets --; title: chapter 7 A Plan for www.hamletworks.org: An Offshoot of the New Variorum Hamlet Project  -- Bernice W. Kliman; title: chapter 8 Urban Poetry in the Almereyda Hamlet  -- Alexander Leggatt; title: chapter 9 Hamlet: A Rehearsal Diary  -- John Bell; title: part, III Popular Shakespeares --; title: chapter 10 'Companions notable and most known': Shakespeare and the General Reader  -- Tom Bishop; title: chapter 11 King Lear as a Book: A Visual/Verbal Production  -- Susan Viguers; title: part, IV Perspectives on Plays --; title: chapter 12 Three's a Company: The Spectre of Contaminated Intimacy in Othello  -- Harry Berger; title: chapter 13 Shakespearean Normativity in All's Well That Ends Well  -- Lars Engle; title: chapter 14 Forms of Empires: Rome and its Peripheries in Cymbeline  -- Atsuhiko Hirota; title: chapter 15 Value Pluralism in The Merchant of Venice  -- Robin Headlam Wells; title: chapter 16 Twins and Doubles as an Aspect of Shakespeare's Pluralism  -- John Lee; title: part, V Review Essay --; title: chapter Five Recent Books on Renaissance Subjectivity -- Katharine Eisaman Maus.