Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of ‘space’ in and through Shakespeare’s plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual spaces in which they are enacted. With contributions from 14 leading and emergent experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, memory studies, phenomenology and the history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and language, translation studies, theatre history and performance studies. Each chapter offers methodological reflections on intersections such as space/mobility, space/emotion, space/supernatural, space/language, space/race and space/digital, whose critical purchase is demonstrated in close readings of plays like King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, Othello and Shakespeare’s history plays. They testify to the importance of space for our understanding of Shakespeare’s creative and theatrical practice, and at the same time enlarge our understanding of space as a critical concept in the humanities. It will prove useful to students, scholars, teachers and theatre practitioners of Shakespeare and early modern studies.
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List of Figures Notes on Contributors Series Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Isabel Karremann (University of Zurich, Switzerland) 1 Space / Mobility Networks of Exchange: Spaces around and between in Shakespeare’s King Henry IV plays Julie Sanders (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 2 Space / Geopoetics ‘Upon the crown o’the cliff’: Shakespeare’s Poetic Geomorphologies Johannes Riquet (Tampere University, Finland) 3 Space / Memory Place and Memory in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy Jonathan Baldo (University of Rochester, USA) 4 Space / Time Shakespeare and the Fullness of Messianic Time: The Comedy of Errors Margaret Tudeau-Clayton (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 5 Space / Religion Shakespearean Roads to Redemption from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen Ina Habermann (University of Basel, Switzerland) 6 Space / Supernatural The Demonic Environments of Hamlet and King Lear Mary Floyd-Wilson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) 7 Space / Emotion Keeping Corners: Emotional and Spatial Confinement in Othello Katharine A. Craik (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 8 Space / Race Shakespeare’s Sharp White Backgrounds Andrew Bozio (Skidmore College, USA) 9 Space / Rhetoric Move your hearts to pity”: Affective and Kinetic Rhetoric in Richard III Jennifer Vaught (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA) 10 Space / Language Spaced out in Rome: Coriolanus and Social Space James Siemon (Boston University, USA) 11 Space / Text The Spaces of Commonplacing Beatrice Montedoro (University of Zurich, Switzerland) 12 Space / Translation Metamorphosing the Semiosphere: Shakespeare and the Inns of Court Andreas Mahler (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 13 Space / Film The Ecocinematic Sublime in Adaptations of King Lear Todd Andrew Borlik (University of Huddersfield, UK) 14 Space / Digital Designing Spatial Metaphors in Made-for-digital Macbeths Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter, UK) Select Bibliography Index
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Shakespeare/Space opens up a contact zone in which the concept of ‘space’ intersects with other critical categories to produce new approaches to Shakespeare’s plays and early modern culture.
Introduces new concepts of ‘space’ to early modern studies and develops them further through intersections with other categories of Shakespeare criticism, such as time, memory, race, gender, emotion, cognition, embodiment, rhetoric, language, translation, religion and the supernatural
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Published in association with the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London, this series sets the future agenda for Shakespeare research and criticism. Each edited volume examines a Shakespearean intersection that has been chosen to encourage inventive reflections, suggestions for future directions for the field and critical engagements of a broad interdisciplinary nature.
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ISBN
9781350282971
Publisert
2024-02-22
Utgiver
Vendor
The Arden Shakespeare
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234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
376

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Biographical note

Isabel Karremann is Professor for Early Modern Literature at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She is the author of The Drama of Memory in Shakespare’s History Plays (2015) and has co-edited essay collections on Shakespeare and early modern drama, among them Shakespeare in Cold War Europe: Conflict, Celebration, Commemoration (2016), Forms of Faith: Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Shakespeare’s England (2017) and Memory and Affect in Shakespeare’s England (2022).