Shakespeare’s Things

Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance

Brett Gamboa, Lawrence Switzky (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

258 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-23968-2 (ISBN)

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Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance invites new critical attention to non-human agents and influences, while aiming to revolutionize the interpretations of the uncanny, the supernatural, and the fantastic in Shakespeare’s plays.

Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named. By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.

Dr. Brett Gamboa is an Assistant Professor of English, Dartmouth College Dr. Lawrence Switzky is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto

1 Introduction

BRETT GAMBOA AND LAWRENCE SWITZKY

PART I

History

2 Reviving Vitalism in King Lear

AARON GREENBERG

3 Understanding Shakespeare’s Shoes

NATASHA KORDA

4 Mirrors and Macbeth’s Queer Materialism

JOHN S. GARRISON

5 The Mirror and Age in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

HANH BUI

6 Shakespeare’s Babies: “Things to Come at Large”

MEGAN SNELL

PART II

Theory

7 Eliot and His Problems: Hamlet’s Correlative Objects

ANDREW SOFER

8 Shakespeare’s Virtuous Properties

JULIA REINHARD LUPTON

9 The Power to Die: Liveliness, Minor Agency, and Shakespeare’s Female Characters

KELSEY BLAIR

10 Shakespeare’s Dark Ecologies: Rethinking the Environment in Macbeth and King Lear

GILES WHITELEY

PART III

Performance

11 Human Remains: Acting, Objects, and Belief in Performance

AOIFE MONKS

12 Shakespeare’s Puppets

KENNETH GROSS

13 Art, Objecthood, and the Extended Audience: Forced Entertainment’s Complete Works

LAWRENCE SWITZKY

14 “Newes from the Dead”: An Unnatural Moment in the History of Natural Philosophy

JANE TAYLOR

15 Tail-Piece: Shake That Thing

MARJORIE GARBER

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo	5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	353 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-23968-9 / 1032239689
ISBN-13	978-1-032-23968-2 / 9781032239682
Zustand	Neuware