Alternative Shakespeares. 3
Introducing the strongest and most innovative of the new directions emerging in Shakespearean scholarship, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Shakespeare who seek an understanding of current and future directions in this ever-changing field
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
9780415423328, 9780415423335, 9780203934098, 0415423325, 0415423333, 0203934091
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Introduction / Diana E. Henderson
'I do, I will': Hal, Falstaff and the performative / Robert Shaughnessy
Medium-specificity and other critical scripts for screen Shakespeare / Katherine Rowe
Shakespeare 3.0; or, text vs. performance, the remix / W.B. Worthen
Shakespeare for readers / Lukas Erne
Cutting both ways: bloodletting, castration/circumcision, and the "Lancelet" of The Merchant of Venice / Patricia Parker
Cymbeline, the font of history, and the matter of Britain: from Times New Roman to italic type / Willy Maley
Playing with Cupid: gender, sexuality, and adolescence / Kate Chedgzoy
Death by numbers: counting and accounting in The Winter's Tale / Shankar Raman
Hamlet, Prince: tragedy, citizenship, and political theology / Julia Reinhard Lupton
Memory, ideology, translation: King Lear behind bars and before history / Rui Carvalho Homem
The materiality of the scholarly text: what our books reveal about us / Mary Thomas Crane
Alternative collaborations: Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, our academy, and the science of probability / Diana E. Henderson
Afterword: Alternativity at the theatrical core: a conversation with Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company