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| Shakespeare Studies Volume XXXIV |
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Editor - Susan Zimmerman
Publication Date - October 2009
Number of Pages - 281
ISBN #100838641202
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Price $60.00 - Price subject to change
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Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published every year in hard cover featuring essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres. The journal also contains substantial reviews of important books and essays dealing with the cultural history of early modern England and the place of Shakespeare's productions (together with those of his contemporaries within it. In recent year, Shakespeare Studies has expanded to include articles and reviews on significant intellectual and historical events on the continent; on global issues pertaining to England, in particular its relationship to the Near and the Far East; and on theoretical works relevant to the critical analysis of Shakespeare and his time.
An Editorial Board of cultural historians and scholars maintains the quality of each annual volume so that Shakespeare Studies may serve as a useful guide for all students of Shakespeare and the early modern period - for teachers, actors, and directors as well as research scholars.
Volume XXXIV features another in the journal's series of Forums, a format by which a selected group of scholars comment on a salient intellectual issue. Organized and edited by Raphael Falco, and entitled "Is There Character After Theory?" this Forum features contributions by Tom Bishop, Dympna Callaghan, Jonathan Crewe, Christy Desmet, Elizabeth Fowler, and Alan Sinfield. Volume XXXIV also includes three full-length articles; in "Jack Cade, the Skin of Dead Lamb, and the Hatred for Writing," Roger Chartier examines the complex cultural tensions between text and image implicit in Cade's critique of writing, in Shakespeare's Henry the Sixth, Part Two; in "Stealing Shakespeare's Oranges," Julian Yates interrogates ontological animal/human as they operate in materialistic criticism of Shakespeare's plays and social milieu; and in "Best Play with Mardian': Eunuch and Blackamoor as Imperial Culturegram," Anston Bosman considers the dyad of eunuch and blackamoor as it signifies in an intricate network of Renaissance literary and political formations, with particular attention to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. The Editor's Foreward in Volume XXXIV is dedicated to the memory of Cynthia Marshall--scholar, colleague, and former contributer to the journal.
Featured in the book review section of this volume are eighteen books written by distinguished scholars on a wide variety of topics, including Renaissance patronage and power; John Stow and historiography; madness and gender; the early modern passions; mythologies of skin color; and money on the age of Shakespeare.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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| Susan Zimmerman is a Professor of English atQueens College, City University of New York. Garrett Sullivan isProfessor of English at Pennsylvania State University. |
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