Shakespeare and Emotion

Cambridge University Press, 10/22/2020
EAN 9781108416160, ISBN10: 1108416160

Hardcover, 400 pages, 22.9 x 15.9 x 3.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Shakespeare and Emotion devotes sustained attention to the emotions as a novel way of exploring Shakespeare's works in their original contexts. A variety of disciplinary approaches drawn from literary, theatrical, historical, cultural and film studies brings the recent upsurge of interest in affect into conversation with some of the most urgent debates in Shakespeare studies. The volume provides both a comprehensive account of the current state of scholarship and a speculative forum for new research. Its chapters outline some important contexts for understanding Shakespeare's creativity through an emotional lens – from religion, rhetoric, and medicine, to language, acting and Bollywood – and offer a range of case studies which reveal particular emotions at work. Considering emotional and passionate experience as an animating and sometimes alienating force within the plays and poems, the volume highlights the continuing importance of Shakespeare today: for our sense of who we are and who we might become.

Introduction Katharine A. Craik
Part I. Contexts
1. Rhetoric
Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar Neil Rhodes
2. Medicine
King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest Elizabeth D. Harvey
3. Religion
Henry VI, Henry IV, Henry V Elizabeth Williamson
4. Character
As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream Robert White
5. Inheritance and Innovation
Richard III, 3 Henry VI, Richard II, The Merchant of Venice Christopher Tilmouth
6. Communities
Julius Caesar Gail Paster
7. Audiences
Much Ado about Nothing, Measure for Measure Tanya Pollard
8. Acting
The Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus Bridget Escolme
9. Bollywood
Macbeth, Othello Melissa Croteau
10. Language
Macbeth, King Lear Philip Davis
11. Emotional Labour
Hamlet Ross Knecht
12. Passionate Shakespeare Peter Holbrook
Part II. Emotions
13. Fear
Macbeth, Othello Toria Johnson
14. Grief
Hamlet Erin Sullivan
15. Sympathy
Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet Richard Meek
16. Shame
A Lover's Complaint, Coriolanus, The Rape of Lucrece Lesel Dawson
17. Anger
Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens Gwynne Kennedy
18. Pride
Coriolanus Indira Ghose
19. Happiness
Othello, I Henry IV, Antony and Cleopatra Richard Strier
20. Love
Sonnets, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream David Schalkwyk
21. Nostalgia
Richard II, Henry V, Henry VI Hester Lees-Jeffries
22. Wonder
Pericles, The Tempest, 'The Phoenix and the Turtle' Tom Bishop
23. Confusion
Cymbeline, Merchant of Venice, The Winter's Tale Timothy M. Harrison.