This book asks new questions about how Shakespeare engages with source material, and what should be counted as sources. The essays demonstrate that source study remains an indispensable mode of inquiry for understanding Shakespeare, his authorship and audiences, and early modern gender, racial, and class relations, as well as for considering how new technologies redefine our understanding of Shakespeare. They revise conceptions of sources and intertextuality to include terms like "haunting," "sustainability," "microscopic sources," "contamination," "fragmentary circulation" and "cultural…mehr
This book asks new questions about how Shakespeare engages with source material, and what should be counted as sources. The essays demonstrate that source study remains an indispensable mode of inquiry for understanding Shakespeare, his authorship and audiences, and early modern gender, racial, and class relations, as well as for considering how new technologies redefine our understanding of Shakespeare. They revise conceptions of sources and intertextuality to include terms like "haunting," "sustainability," "microscopic sources," "contamination," "fragmentary circulation" and "cultural conservation, examining print and material culture, theatrical paradigms, and oral narratives.
Dennis Austin Britton is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of New Hampshire, USA. Melissa Walter is Associate Professor in the Department of English at University of the Fraser Valley, Canada.
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Table of Contents Introduction Dennis Austin Britton and Melissa Walter Part One: Source Study, Sustainability, and Cultural Diversity Toward a Sustainable Source Study Lori Humphrey Newcomb Contaminatio, Race, and Pity in Othello Dennis Austin Britton Translating Plautus to Bohemia: Ruzante, Ludovico, and The Winter's Tale Jane Tylus Veiled Revenants and the Risks of Hospitality: Euripides' Alcestis, the Renaissance Novella, and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing Susanne L. Wofford Part Two: Sources and Audiences Traces of Knowledge: Microsource Study in Cymbeline and Lear Meredith Beales Reconstructing Holinshed: History and Romance in Henry VIII Dimitry Senyshyn Shakespeare's Transformative Art: Theatrical Paradigms as Sources in All's Well that Ends Well and Macbeth David Kay Part Three: Authorship and Transmission Diachronic and Synchronic: Two Problems of Textual Relations in The Comedy of Errors Kent Cartwright Greek Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Rome: Titus Andronicus and Iphigenia in Aulis Penelope Meyers Usher Multiple Materials and Motives in Two Gentlemen of Verona Meredith Skura The Curious Case of Mr. William Shakespeare and the Red Herring: Twelfth Night and its Sources Mark Houlahan Part Four: Source Study in the Digital Age Shakespeare Source Study in the Age of Google: Revisiting Greenblatt's Elephant's and Horatio's Ground Brett D. Hirsch and Laurie Johnson "Tangled in a net": Shakespeare the Adaptor/Shakespeare the Source Janelle Jenstad Lost Plays and Source Study David McInnis
Table of Contents Introduction Dennis Austin Britton and Melissa Walter Part One: Source Study, Sustainability, and Cultural Diversity Toward a Sustainable Source Study Lori Humphrey Newcomb Contaminatio, Race, and Pity in Othello Dennis Austin Britton Translating Plautus to Bohemia: Ruzante, Ludovico, and The Winter's Tale Jane Tylus Veiled Revenants and the Risks of Hospitality: Euripides' Alcestis, the Renaissance Novella, and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing Susanne L. Wofford Part Two: Sources and Audiences Traces of Knowledge: Microsource Study in Cymbeline and Lear Meredith Beales Reconstructing Holinshed: History and Romance in Henry VIII Dimitry Senyshyn Shakespeare's Transformative Art: Theatrical Paradigms as Sources in All's Well that Ends Well and Macbeth David Kay Part Three: Authorship and Transmission Diachronic and Synchronic: Two Problems of Textual Relations in The Comedy of Errors Kent Cartwright Greek Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Rome: Titus Andronicus and Iphigenia in Aulis Penelope Meyers Usher Multiple Materials and Motives in Two Gentlemen of Verona Meredith Skura The Curious Case of Mr. William Shakespeare and the Red Herring: Twelfth Night and its Sources Mark Houlahan Part Four: Source Study in the Digital Age Shakespeare Source Study in the Age of Google: Revisiting Greenblatt's Elephant's and Horatio's Ground Brett D. Hirsch and Laurie Johnson "Tangled in a net": Shakespeare the Adaptor/Shakespeare the Source Janelle Jenstad Lost Plays and Source Study David McInnis
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