Title:
How to do things with Shakespeare : new approaches, new essays
Author:
Maguire, Laurie E.
ISBN:
9781405135269
9781405135276
Publication Information:
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Physical Description:
x, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
pt. 1. How to do things with sources. French connections : The Je-Ne-Sais in Montaigne and Shakespeare / Richard Scholar -- Romancing the Greeks : Cymbeline's genres and models / Tanya Pollard -- How the Renaissance misused sources : The art of misquotation / Julie Maxwell -- pt. 2. How to do things with history. Henry VIII or all is true : Shakespeare's 'favorite' play / Chris R. Kyle -- Catholicism and conversion in Love's Labour's lost / Gillian Woods -- pt. 3. How to do things with texts. Watching as reading : The audience and written text in Shakespeare's playhouse / Tiffany Stern -- What do editors do and why does it matter? / Anthony B. Dawson -- pt. 4. How to do things with animals. "The dog is himself" : Humans, animals, and self-control in The two gentlemen of Verona / Erica Fudge -- Sheepishness in The winter's tale / Paul Yachmin -- pt. 5. How to do things with posterity. Time and nature of sequence in Shakespeare's sonnets : "n sequent toil all forwards do contend"Georgia Brown -- Canons and cultures : Is Shakespeare universal? / A. E. B. Coldiron -- "Freezing the snowman" : (How) can he do performance criticism? / Emma Smith.
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