The Shakespearean International Yearbook

by Bradshaw, Graham; Bishop, Tom; Neill, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780754653707
• ISBN10: 0754653706
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

In this issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook, the special section focuses on 'Shakespeare and the Bonds of Service.' The guest editor for the section is Michael Neill, Professor of English at the University of Auckland and author of Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy. The essays in this section consider the resonance of both the theory and practice of "service" in early modern English society and drama.The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Representing international perspectives on Shakespeare studies, contributors to this issue come from the US, Canada and the UK, Japan, India, New Zealand and South Africa. They appraise or reappraise current thinking about such matters as scepticism, psychoanalysis, appropriation and adaptation, textual traditions and performance practices (including a Production Diary for The Merchant of Venice, contributed by Barrie Rutter of Northern Broadsides). Essays on the plays and poems tend to focus on 'where we are now', and what has changed, is changing, or ought to change.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction: Some Problems in Historical Criticism	ix
Robin Headlam Wells
Part I: Special Section: Shakespeare and the Bonds of Service Edited by Michael Neill
1 Love and Service in The Taming of the Shrew and All's Well that Ends Well	3	(41)
David Schalkwyk
2 'We owe thee much': Service in King John	44	(22)
David Evett
3 King Lear, Service and the Deconstruction of Protestant Idealism	66	(20)
Mark Thornton Burnett
4 'No, let me be obsequious in thy heart': Service and Friendship in Shakespeare's Sonnets	86	(17)
Judith Weil
5 Labours of Love: Women, Marriage and Service in Twelfth Night and The Compleat Servant-Maid	103	(24)
Michelle M. Dowd
6 'A woman's service': Gender, Subordination, and the Erotics of Rank in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries	127	(20)
Michael Neill
Part II: Psychoanalytical Approaches
7 Psychoanalysis and its Contemporary Engagements	147	(15)
Heather Hirschfeld
8 Psychoanalysis, Idealizing and Magic: Reading The Tempest	162	(19)
David Mikics
9 Murdering Sleep in Macbeth: The Mental World of the Protagonist	181
Jennifer Lewin
Part III: Reappraisals
10 Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Roman Honour	191	(20)
Alexander Welsh
11 'Look up a Height': King Lear, Titus and the Scandal of Tragedy	211	(18)
Michael Goldman
12 The Politics of Measure for Measure	229	(11)
Fritz Levy
13 'Double Dealing Ambodexters': Shakespeare and the Paradoxes of Playing	240	(27)
Peter G. Platt
Part IV: Performance and Productions
14 A Production Diary for Northern Broadsides' The Merchant of Venice	267	(15)
Barrie Rutter
15 Multi-Shakespeare: Performing King Lear in India	282	(21)
Poonam Trivedi
16 The Transforming of Henry V	303	(11)
Andrew Gurr
17 'Music Within' and Music Above'	314	(22)
Mai iko Ichikawa
Notes on Contributors	336	(5)
Bibliography	341	(28)
Index	369