The Shakespearean International Yearbook

by Elton, William R.; Mucciolo, John M.

• ISBN13: 9781859283530
• ISBN10: 1859283535
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Scolar Pr

Summary

This monumental inaugural volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook provides for the first time a conspectus of the present state of Shakespearean studies, from the most recent critical theories to evaluative bibliographical surveys of research in many fields. It comprises twenty essays by an international group of distinguished scholars, and is divided into four thematic sections that reflect the mood and movement of current Shakespeare interpretation: controversies and methodologies; The Globe, old and new; Shakespeare and Renaissance ideas; and Shakespeare's plays and poems.The essays address issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare, including those of gender, the staging of plays, and historical research on matters such as the monarchy, language, religion, and the law.This important contribution to Shakespeare studies concludes with a section on suggested key reference works. The Shakespearean International Yearbook is a unique and invaluable reference tool; as such, it will find a place in every library.

Table of Contents

Contents of volume 1: Foreword

Methodologies and Controversies: State of play

Shakespeare between politics and aesthetics

What! You, Will? Shakespeare and homoeroticism

After Oxford: recent developments in textual studies

The old and the new materialising of Shakespeare

Shakespeare in performance

The Globe, Old and New: Staging the Globe

The still-elusive Globe: archaeological remains and scholarly speculations

Shakespeare and Renaissance Ideas

The reign of James VI: a survey of recent writings

Studies on Shakespeare's language: an overview

Shakespeare and religion

Magnanimity and the image of heroic character in Shakespeare's plays: a reappraisal

Shakespeare and the law: an overview

Shakespeare and the Italians

Plays and Poems

Julius Caesar 1937-97: where we are now; how we got there

Merging the kingdoms: King Lear

A Midsummer Night's Dream in the 1990s

Criticism on the Sonnets, 1994-97

Shakespeare's 'Colonialist' Tempest, 1975 to the present day

Twelfth Night

Kenneth Muir (1907-96): an appreciation

Key reference works: some suggestions

Index

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