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Author:   Victoria Bladen ,  Yan Brailowsky ,  Gayle Allan ,  Jacquelyn Bessell
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9781526109064

ISBN 10:   1526109069
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   31 January 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Shakespeare and the supernatural – Victoria Bladen and Yan Brailowsky Part I: Embodying the supernatural 1 Shakespeare’s political spectres – Victoria Bladen 2 ‘Rudely stamped’: supernatural generation and the limits of power in Shakespeare’s Richard III – Chelsea Phillips 3 Digital puppetry and the supernatural: double Ariel in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest (2017) – Anchuli Felicia King Part II: Haunted spaces 4 Demons and puns: Revisiting the ‘cellarage scene’ in Hamlet – Pierre Kapitaniak 5 Performing the Shakespearean supernatural in Avignon: a challenge to the Festival – Florence March Part III: Supernatural utterance and haunted texts 6 Prophecy and the supernatural: Shakespeare’s challenges to performativity – Yan Brailowsky 7 Puck, Philostrate and the locus of A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s topical allegory – Laurie Johnson 8 ‘Strange intelligence’: Transformations of witchcraft in Macbeth discourse – William C. Carroll Part IV: Magic, music and gender 9 Music and magic in The Tempest: Ariel’s alchemical songs – Natalie Roulon 10 From Prospero to Prospera: transforming gender and magic on stage and screen – Katharine Goodland Part V: Contemporary transformations 11 ‘I’ll put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes’: representing the supernatural in film adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Gayle Allan 12 Ophelia and her magical daughters: the afterlives of Ophelia in Japanese pop culture – Yukari Yoshihara Index -- .

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Victoria Bladen teaches in literary studies and adaptation at The University of Queensland, Australia Yan Brailowsky is Senior Lecturer in early modern British history and literature at the University of Paris Nanterre

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