Buch, Englisch, 594 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1220 g
Reihe: Oxford Handbooks
Buch, Englisch, 594 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1220 g
Reihe: Oxford Handbooks
ISBN: 978-0-19-872768-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.