Overview

This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about what should be counted as sources in Shakespeare studies. 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 have and will continue to redefine our understanding of the materials Shakespeare used to compose his plays. Although source study has been used in the past to construct a conservative view of Shakespeare and his genius, the volume argues that a rethought Shakespearean source study provides opportunities to examine models and practices of cultural exchange and memory, and to value specific cultures and difference. Informed by contemporary approaches to literature and culture, the essays revise conceptions of sources and intertextuality to include terms like ""haunting,"" ""sustainability,"" ""microscopic sources,"" ""contamination,"" ""fragmentary circulation"" and ""cultural conservation."" They maintain an awareness of the heterogeneity of cultures along lines of class, religious affiliation, and race, seeking to enhance the opportunity to register diverse ideas and frameworks imported from foreign material and distant sources. The volume not only examines print culture, but also material culture, theatrical paradigms, generic assumptions, and oral narratives. It considers how digital technologies alter how we find sources and see connections among texts. This book asserts that how critics assess and acknowledge Shakespeare’s sources remains interpretively and politically significant; source study and its legacy continues to shape the image of Shakespeare and his authorship. The collection will be valuable to those interested in the relationships between Shakespeare’s work and other texts, those seeking to understand how the legacy of source study has shaped Shakespeare as a cultural phenomenon, and those studying source study, early modern authorship, implications of digital tools in early modern studies, and early modern literary culture.

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Author:   Dennis Austin Britton ,  Melissa Walter
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.598kg
ISBN:  

9781138123076

ISBN 10:   1138123072
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   06 April 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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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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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