How to do things with Shakespeare
Subtitle: new approaches, new essays
By: edited by Laurie Maguire
Contributors: Maguire, Laurie E
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781405135269; 9781405135276
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Examinations -- Study guides; Criticism -- Authorship; Report writing
Genres: Study guides
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. How to do things with sources. French connections : The Je-Ne-Sais in Montaigne and Shakespeare / Richard Scholar; title: Romancing the Greeks : Cymbeline's genres and models / Tanya Pollard; title: How the Renaissance misused sources : The art of misquotation / Julie Maxwell; title: pt. 2. How to do things with history. Henry VIII or all is true : Shakespeare's 'favorite' play / Chris R. Kyle; title: Catholicism and conversion in Love's Labour's lost / Gillian Woods; title: pt. 3. How to do things with texts. Watching as reading : The audience and written text in Shakespeare's playhouse / Tiffany Stern; title: What do editors do and why does it matter? / Anthony B. Dawson; title: pt. 4. How to do things with animals. "The dog is himself" : Humans, animals, and self-control in The two gentlemen of Verona / Erica Fudge; title: Sheepishness in The winter's tale / Paul Yachmin; title: pt. 5. How to do things with posterity. Time and nature of sequence in Shakespeare's sonnets : "n sequent toil all forwards do contend"Georgia Brown; title: Canons and cultures : Is Shakespeare universal? / A. E. B. Coldiron; title: "Freezing the snowman" : (How) can he do performance criticism? / Emma Smith