Shakespeare Survey 72: Volume 72, Shakespeare and War

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The theme is 'Shakespeare and War'.

Emma Smith (Edited by)

9781108499286, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 September 2019

408 pages, 34 b/w illus. 5 tables 6 music examples
25.3 x 19.6 x 2.7 cm, 0.95 kg

'… it is a most useful collection offering many new insights into Shakespeare's plays. It proves particularly instructive, often original, and always pleasant to read.' Sophie Chiari, Cercles

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'.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD], Shakespeare plays [DDS]