Shakespeare after 9/11
Subtitle: how a social trauma reshapes interpretation
By: edited by Matthew Biberman and Julia Reinhard Lupton.
Contributors: Biberman, Matthew, 1966-; Lupton, Julia Reinhard, 1963-
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press; Edwin Mellen Pr
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780773437302
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- United States; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Influence; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- United States; Terror in literature; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence; Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Shakespeare after 9/11 / Matthew Biberman; title: "This thing of darkness" (prose poem) / Tom Sleigh; title: Shakespeare and terror / Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey; title: Extraordinary renditions: toward an agency of place / Linda Charnes; title: "Wicked meaning in a lawful deed": Shakespeare on the obscenity of power / Slavoj Zizek; title: Explosive signifiers: Sulayman al-Bassam's post 9/11 odyssey / Margaret Litvin; title: Shakespeare and the dialectic of enlightenment: a presentist perspective / Hugh Grady; title: Harry after VV / Scott Newstock and Harry Berger Jr; title: Shakespeare after 5/11 / Jonathan Gil Harris; title: Whither brutus?: rethinking Julius Caesar in the new American century / Scott Maisano; title: "Senseless ilium" / Christopher Pye; title: Shakespeare-for the long haul / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy; title: "And here's thy hand": Titus Andronicus in a time of terror / James Kuzner; title: Contemplating suicide: Shakespeare after the September 11 attacks / Bryan Reynolds; title: Shakespeare's "bare (ruined) choirs" / Richard Burt; title: The great awakening (poem) / Robert Polito; title: "All are punished": staging Romeo and Juliet in a post 9/11 world 231 / Stephen M. Davies; title: On 9/11 as a concept for Shakespeare productions / Cynthia White; title: Thoughts on Shakespeare after 9/11 / Terry Burgler; title: Beyond humanism and postmodernism: a Hamlet for the 21st century / Walter A. Davies; title: "This rough magic" / Sidney Berger; title: Guernica unveiled (poem) / Graham Holderness; title: "Preposterous violence": Shakespeare after 9/11, 9/11 after Shakespeare / Ben Saunders.