The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volume has acquired an array of meanings over the past four centuries. "Shakespeare" signifies the historical person, as well as the plays and verse attributed to him. It also signifies the attitudes towards both author and works determined by their receptions. Throughout the book, specialists aim to situate Shakespeare’s world and what the world is because of him. In adopting a global perspective, the volume arranges thirty-six chapters in five parts:
- Shakespeare on stage internationally since the late seventeenth century;
- Shakespeare on film throughout the world;
- Shakespeare in the arts beyond drama and performance;
- Shakespeare in everyday life;
- Shakespeare and critical practice.
Through its coverage, The Shakespearean World offers a comprehensive transhistorical and international view of the ways this Shakespeare has not only influenced but has also been influenced by diverse cultures during 400 years of performance, adaptation, criticism, and citation. While each chapter is a freshly conceived introduction to a significant topic, all of the chapters move beyond the level of survey, suggesting new directions in Shakespeare studies – such as ecology, tourism, and new media – and making substantial contributions to the field. This volume is an essential resource for all those studying Shakespeare, from beginners to advanced specialists.
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Jill L. Levenson and Robert Ormsby
Section 1: Shakespeare on Stage Since the Late Seventeenth Century
1. Staging Shakespeare in England Since the Restoration
Kathryn Prince
2. Shakespeare on Stage since the Late Seventeenth Century
Martin Procházka, Marta Gibińska and Florence March
3. Shakespeare on American Stages
James C. Bulman
4. Shakespeare in Latin America: Appropriation, Politics, and Performance Practices
Maria Clara Galery and Stegh Cammati
5. Middle Eastern Shakespeare
Margaret Litvin, Avraham Oz and Parviz Partovi
6. Shakespeare in Africa
Sandra Young
7. Interacting with Naturalism: East Asian Shakespeare Performances
Yong Li Lan
8. Kissing and Drowning The Book: Shakespearean Theatre in the Antipodes
Rob Conkie and Nicola Hyland
Section 2: Shakespeare on Film
9. Framing the Theatrical: Shakespearean Film in the UK
Peter Kirwan
10. Shakespeare in Film: Continental Europe
Mariangela Tempera
11. The Cloud Capped Towers and the Charcoal Sketch: Shakespeare on Film in North America
Samuel Crowl
12. Shakespeare on Film in Asia
Alexa Huang
13. Shakespearean Cinema and the Rest of the World
Mark Thornton Burnett
Section 3: Shakespeare in the Arts beyond Drama and Performance
14. The Subject of Shake-speares Sonnets and Afterlife in Lyric Poetry
Peter Robinson
15. Shakespeare and the Novel: "For that which had been lost was found, and so on"
Jane Kingsley-Smith
16. In Search of Shakespeare’s Biography
Katherine Scheil
17. Interpreting Shakespeare through the Visual Arts
Jim Davis
18. The Shakespearean World of Music
Christy Desmet and David Schiller
Section 4: Shakespeare in Everyday Life
19. Shakespeare and Education: the Making of an Unlikely Marriage
Kate Flaherty
20. Conjuring Shakespeare for Young Audiences through Fairy Tales, Fable, and Fantasy
Naomi J. Miller
21. Shakespeare in Amateur Production
Stephen Purcell
22. "Prithee, Listen Well": The Case for Audio Shakespeare
Michael P. Jensen
23. Sticky or Spreadable? Shakespeare and Global Television
Susanne Greenhalgh
24. Shakespearean Tourism: From National Heritage to Global Attraction
Robert Ormsby
25. "Within this wooden [2.]O": Shakespeare and New Media in the Digital Age
Brett D. Hirsch and Michael Best
Section 5: Shakespeare and Critical Practice
26. Shakespeare’s Texts and Editions
Eugene Giddens
27. Shakespearean Archives: Context, Categories, and the Containment of Chaos
Christie Carson
28. Shakespeare’s Language: An Eventful Afterlife
Keith Johnson
29. Shakespeare and Philosophy
Peter Holbrook
30. Political Approaches to Shakespeare
Hugh Grady
31. Religion, Secularity, and Shakespeare
Arthur F. Marotti and Ken Jackson
32. Shakespeare and Psychology: "Who’s There?"
Murray M. Schwartz and David Willbern
33. Shakespeare and Early Modern Race Studies: An Overview of the Field
Jason Demeter and Ayanna Thompson
34. New Economies of Gender and Sexuality: Rereading the Shakespearean Body
Susan Bennett and Nicole Edge
35. Shakespeare, Ecology, and Ecocriticism
Randall Martin
36. The Shakespearean Legal Imaginary
Karen Cunningham
About the Author :
Jill L. Levenson is Emeritus Professor of English at Trinity College, University of Toronto, Canada, and is an honorary vice president of the International Shakespeare Association.
Robert Ormsby is Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
