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| Shakespeare Studies Volume XXXVI |
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Editor - Susan Zimmerman and Garret Sullivan
Publication Date - October 2008
Number of Pages - 321
ISBN #9780838641798
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Price $60.00 - Price subject to change
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Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published annually in hard cover and featuring essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres. Although the journal maintains a focus on the theatrical milieu of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, it is also concerned with Britain's intellectual and cultural connections to the continent, its sociopolitical history, and its place in the emerging globalism of the period. In addition to articles, the journal includes substantialreviews of significant publications dealing with these issues, as well as theoretical studies relevant to scholars of early modern culture.
An Editorial Board of British and American 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 research scholars, certainly, but also for teachers, actors, and directors.
Volume XXXVI features another in the journal's series of Forums, in which scholars exchange views on an issue of importance to early modern studies. Organized by Patrick Cheney, this forum is titled "The Return of the Author" and includes.com mentary by ten contributors considering the issue of authorship in a postmodern milieu: Lukas Erne, David Scott Kastan, Jeffrey Knapp, Wendy Wall, Richard Wilson, Heather James, Leah S. Marcus, Brian Vickers, Richard Dutton, and Michael D.Bristol.
The articles in Volume XXXVI concentrate on interpretations of early modern plays from revisionist perspectives. Three of the essays address Shakespeare's plays: "Hamlet as Mourning-Play: A Benjaminesque Interpreation" by Hugh Grady; "'O for a muse of fire': Henry V and Plotted Self-Exculpation" by Bradley Greenburg and "Eating Richard II" by Jeremy Lopez. In addition, Heather Anne Hirschfeld has contributed an essay on doctrinal controversies in Marlowe's Faustus entitled "'The verie paines of hell': Doctor Faustus and the Controversy over Christ's Descent."
The book review section features reviews of fourteen diverse books of importance to early modern scholarship. Several of these books address theatrical issues, for example, the relationship of Shakespeare's theater to the early modern House of Commons; the function of the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture; the places of London.com edy from 1598 to1642; the relationship of moral philosophy to Shakespearean drama; and Shakespeare's late style. Others examine broader cultural phenomenasuch as time, space, and motion in the age of Shakespeare; animals, rationality, and humanity in early modern England; Paris and London as cultural capitals; the Jamestown project; and politics and the passions from 1500 to 1850. Because medieval studies are often important to the journal's readership, Volume XXXVI includes reviews of two such books, one dealing with medieval romance and the politics of cultural fantasy, and the other with Lacan's medievalism.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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Susan Zimmerman is Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York and is author of The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre.
Garret Sullivan is Professor of English at Pennsylvania StateUniversity and author of Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama. |
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