Description
The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the programme of the International Shakespeare Conference held in Stratford-upon-Avon in the summer of 2018. The theme is 'Shakespeare and War'.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations; 1. Henry V after the War on Terror Ramona Wray; 2. Economies of gunpowder and ecologies of peace: accounting for sustainability; Randall Martin; 3. Shakespeare and religious war: new developments on the Italian sources of Twelfth Night Elisabetta Tarantino; 4. 'Thou laidst no sieges to the music-room': anatomising wars, staging battles Michael Hattaway; 5. Shakespearian narratives of war: trauma; repetition; and metaphor Ros King; 6. War without Shakespeare: reading Shakespearean absence, 1642–1649 Eoin Price; 7. Antic dispositions: Shakespeare, war, and cabaret Irene Makaryk; 8. The comedy of Hamlet in Nazi-occupied Warsaw: an exploration of Lubitsch's To be or not to be (1942) Reiko Oya; 9. The lion and the lamb: Hamlet in London during World War II Zoltán Márkus; 10. Dividing to conquer or joining the ReSisters: Shakespeare's Lady Anne (and Woolf's Three Guineas) in the wake of #MeToo Diana Henderson; 11. The Homeland of Coriolanus: war homecomings between Shakespeare's stage and current complex TV Christina Wald; 12. Scholarly method, truth, and evidence in Shakespearian textual studies Gabriel Egan; 13. Beautiful polecats: the living and the dead in Julius Caesar Lisa Hopkins; 14. Ancient aesthetics and current conflicts: Indian Rasa theory and Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider (2014) Melissa Croteau; 15. Failure to thrive Elizabeth Mazzola; 16. Tippett's Tempest: Shakespeare in The Knot Garden Michael Graham; 17. Tautological character: Troilus and Cressida and the problems of personation Samuel Fallon; 18. 'Rude wind': King Lear – canonicity versus physicality Peter Smith; 19. Content but also unwell: distributed character and language in The Merchant of Venice Elena Pellone and David Schalkwyk; 20. This autistic island's mine: neurodiversity, autistic culture, and the Hunter Heartbeat Method Sonya Freeman Loftis; 21. The Senecan tragedy of Feste in Twelfth Night Judith Rosenheim; 22. Shakespearean performance in England, 2018 Stephen Purcell and Paul Prescott; 23. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, 2017 James Shaw; 24. The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: critical studies reviewed by Charlotte Scott; Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Russell Jackson; Editions and textual studies reviewed by Peter Kirwan; Abstracts.
