Shakespeare's Things

Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-42907-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named. By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gamboa, Brett

Switzky, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction

BRETT GAMBOA AND LAWRENCE SWITZKY

PART I

History

2 Reviving Vitalism in King Lear

AARON GREENBERG

3 Understanding Shakespeare’s Shoes

NATASHA KORDA

4 Mirrors and Macbeth’s Queer Materialism

JOHN S. GARRISON

5 The Mirror and Age in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

HANH BUI

6 Shakespeare’s Babies: “Things to Come at Large”

MEGAN SNELL

PART II

Theory

7 Eliot and His Problems: Hamlet’s Correlative Objects

ANDREW SOFER

8 Shakespeare’s Virtuous Properties

JULIA REINHARD LUPTON

9 The Power to Die: Liveliness, Minor Agency, and Shakespeare’s Female Characters

KELSEY BLAIR

10 Shakespeare’s Dark Ecologies: Rethinking the Environment in Macbeth and King Lear

GILES WHITELEY

PART III

Performance

11 Human Remains: Acting, Objects, and Belief in Performance

AOIFE MONKS

12 Shakespeare’s Puppets

KENNETH GROSS

13 Art, Objecthood, and the Extended Audience: Forced Entertainment’s Complete Works

LAWRENCE SWITZKY

14 “Newes from the Dead”: An Unnatural Moment in the History of Natural Philosophy

JANE TAYLOR

15 Tail-Piece: Shake That Thing

MARJORIE GARBER

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Brett Gamboa is an Assistant Professor of English, Dartmouth College

Dr. Lawrence Switzky is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto