How To Do Things With Shakespeare New Approaches, New Essays

by Maguire, Laurie

• ISBN13: 9781405135269
• ISBN10: 1405135263
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-15
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical positions. A helpful guidebook for anyone trying to think of a new approach to Shakespeare Twelve experts take new critical positions in their field of study using the writings and analysis of Shakespeare, to show how writers (students and academics) find topics and develop their ideas Features autobiographical prefaces that explain how the experts chose their topics and why the editor commissioned these particular essays, topics, and authors Argues that literary research is a reaction to experiences, thoughts or feelings Essays are arranged in small dialogues of two or three, forming a debate Teaches students to respond individually to cultural positions

Author Biography

Laurie Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College and Reader in English at Oxford University. Her books include Shakespearean Suspect Texts (1996), Studying Shakespeare (2004), Where There’s a Will There’s a Way (2006), and Shakespeare’s Names (2007). Maguire has published widely on Renaissance drama, textual problems, performance, and women's studies.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
How To Do Things with Sources	p. 5
Editor's Introduction	p. 7
French Connections: The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Montaigne and Shakespeare	p. 11
Romancing the Greeks: Cymbeline's Genres and Models	p. 34
How the Renaissance (Mis)Used Sources: The Art of Misquotation	p. 54
How To Do Things with History	p. 77
Editor's Introduction	p. 79
Henry VIII, or All is True: Shakespeare's "Favorite" Play	p. 82
Catholicism and Conversion in Love's Labour's Lost	p. 101
How To Do Things with Texts	p. 131
Editor's Introduction	p. 133
Watching as Reading: The Audience and Written Text in Shakespeare's Playhouse	p. 136
What Do Editors Do and Why Does It Matter?	p. 160
How To Do Things with Animals	p. 181
Editor's Introduction	p. 183
"The dog is himself": Humans, Animals, and Self-Control in The Two Gentlemen of Verona	p. 185
Sheepishness in The Winter's Tale	p. 210
How To Do Things with Posterity	p. 231
Editor's Introduction	p. 233
Time and the Nature of Sequence in Shakespeare's Sonnets: "In sequent toil all forwards do contend"	p. 236
Canons and Cultures: Is Shakespeare Universal?	p. 255
"Freezing the Snowman": (How) Can We Do Performance Criticism?	p. 280
Index	p. 298
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