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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.
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
