Shakespeare Survey 70: Creating Shakespeare (Shakespeare Survey, Series Number 70)

Cambridge University Press, 4/1/2021
EAN 9781108405027, ISBN10: 1108405029

Paperback, 416 pages, 24.6 x 18.9 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the World Shakespeare Congress, held 400 years after Shakespeare's death, in July/August 2016 in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. The theme is 'Creating Shakespeare'.

1. 'Think when we talk of horses …' Gregory Doran
2. Adrian Lester in dialogue with Ayanna Thompson
3. Shakespeare and the novel
a conversation Howard Jacobson and Adrian Poole
4. 'Music still'
understanding and reconstructing Shakespeare's use of musical underscore Claire van Kampen
Part I. Shakespeare
Biography and Celebration
5. Remembering and forgetting in 1916
Israel Gollancz, the Shakespeare tercentenary and the National Theatre Gordon McMullan
6. Four centuries of centenaries
Stratford-upon-Avon Michael Dobson
7. Writing and re-writing Shakespeare's life
a roundtable discussion with Margreta de Grazia, Katherine Scheil, James Shapiro, and Stanley Wells Paul Edmondson
8. The merchant in Venice
re-creating Shakespeare in the Ghetto Shaul Bassi
9. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in and beyond the Ghetto Carol Chillington Rutter
Part II. Shakespeare and Textual Studies
10. What the quills can tell
the case of John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's Love's Cure José A. Pérez Díez
11. What if Greg and Werstine had examined early Modern Spanish Dramatic Manuscripts Jesús Tronch
12. Exit manuscripts
the archive of theatre and the archive of print John Jowett
13. 'Sblood! Hamlet's oaths and the editing of Shakespeare's plays Lucy Munro
14. Antihonorificabilitudinitatibus
Love's Labour's Lost and unteachable words Adam Zucker
15. Shakespeare and who? Aeschylus, Edward III, and Thomas Kyd Gary Taylor, John V. Nance and Keegan Cooper
16. Authorial attribution and Shakespearean variety
genre, form and chronology Hugh Craig
Part lll. Shakespeare and Early Modern Contexts
17. 'My mother's maids, when they did sew and spin'
staging sewing, telling tales Hester Lees-Jeffries
18. Why prospero drowned his books, and other Catholic folklore Helen Cooper
19. Why did the English stage take boys for actresses? Pamela Allen Brown
20. Acting amiss
towards a history of actorly craft and playhouse judgement Simon Smith 21. 'What imports this song?'
spontaneous singers and spaces of meaning in Shakespeare Elisabeth Lutteman
22. Shakespeare's depriving particles Ruth Morse
23. Shakespeare's comedy of upright status
standing bears and fallen humans Laurie Shannon
24. 'Worth the name of a Christian'?
the parabolic economy of Two Gentlemen of Verona Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
25. 'Titus, unkind'
Shakespeare's revision of Vergil's Aeneas in Titus Andronicus Megan Allen
26. 'Cut him out in little stars'
Juliet's cute classicism Julia Reinhard Lupton
27. The will of Caesar
choice-making, the death of the Roman Republic, and the development of Shakespearean character Katharine Eisaman Maus
28. 'As for that light hobby-horse, my sister'
Shakespearean influences and popular discourses in Blurt, Master Constable Natália Pikli
29. Messianic ugliness in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale Naomi Baker
30. Shakespeare performances in England, 2016 Stephen Purcell
31. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 2015 James Shaw
Part IV. The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
1. Critical studies reviewed by Charlotte Scott
2. The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare reviewed by Russell Jackson
3. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Russell Jackson
4. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Peter Kirwan
Abstracts.