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Author:   Emma Smith (University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9781108830539

ISBN 10:   1108830536
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   17 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Continental Shakespeare Karen Newman; 2. The stranger at the door: belonging in Shakespeare's Ephesus Nandini Das; 3. City origins, lost identities and print errors in The Comedy of Errors Alice Leonard; 4. The circulation of youthful energy on the early modern London stage: migration, intertheatricality, and 'growing to common players' Harry R. McCarthy; 5. In conversation with Shakespeare in Jacobean London: social insanity and its taming schools in 1 and 2 Honest Whore Chi-Fang Sophia Li; 6. Hearing voices: signal vs urban noise in Coriolanus and Augustine's Confessions Lars Engle; 7. Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong: appropriating Shakespeare to express the inexpressible Miriam Lau Leung Che; 8. Before we sleep: Macbeth and the curtain lecture Neil Rhodes; 9. 'The story shall be changed': antique fables and agency in A Midsummer Night's Dream Charlotte Scott; 10. A lawful magic: new worlds of precedent in Mabo and The Winter's Tale Nicholas Luke; 11. 'Cabined, cribbed, confined': advice to actors and the priorities of Shakespearean scholarship' Michael Cordner; 12. 'What country, friends, is this?': Tim Supple's Twelfth Night revisited Peter J. Smith; 13. Through a glass darkly: Sophie Okonedo's Margaret as racial other in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses Jennie M. Votava; 14. 'Who's there?': Britain's twenty-first century obsession with celebrity Hamlet (2008-2018) Gemma Kate Allred; 15. Shakespearean performance in England 2019 Stephen Purcell and Paul Prescott; 16. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles 2018 James Shaw; 17. Critical studies Charlotte Scott; 18. Shakespeare in performance Russell Jackson; 19. Editions and textual studies Peter Kirwan.

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Emma Smith is Director of English Studies at Hertford College, Oxford. She has a broad range of Shakespearean expertise, in terms of performance, criticism and the preparation of textual editions, and has written for students, theatregoers and scholars. Her list of publications includes a performance edition of King Henry V (Cambridge, 2002). She co-edited The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (Cambridge, 2010). For undergraduate readers she wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2007) and The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide (Cambridge, 2012). More recently she has turned her attention to the cultural history of the First Folio, and published a book with the Bodleian Library to accompany the 2016 touring exhibition; in the same year she published The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio (Cambridge, 2016).

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