Shakespeare / Space: Contemporary Readings in Spatiality, Culture and Drama
Isabel Karremann · Lucy Munro · Sonia Massai · Farah Karim Cooper · Gordon McMullan
Feb 2024 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of 'space' in and through Shakespeare's plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual spaces in which they are enacted.
With contributions from 14 leading and emergent experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, memory studies, phenomenology and the history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and language, translation studies, theatre history and performance studies.
Each chapter offers methodological reflections on intersections such as space/mobility, space/emotion, space/supernatural, space/language, space/race and space/digital, whose critical purchase is demonstrated in close readings of plays like King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, Othello and Shakespeare's history plays. They testify to the importance of space for our understanding of Shakespeare's creative and theatrical practice, and at the same time enlarge our understanding of space as a critical concept in the humanities. It will prove useful to students, scholars, teachers and theatre practitioners of Shakespeare and early modern studies.
With contributions from 14 leading and emergent experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, memory studies, phenomenology and the history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and language, translation studies, theatre history and performance studies.
Each chapter offers methodological reflections on intersections such as space/mobility, space/emotion, space/supernatural, space/language, space/race and space/digital, whose critical purchase is demonstrated in close readings of plays like King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, Othello and Shakespeare's history plays. They testify to the importance of space for our understanding of Shakespeare's creative and theatrical practice, and at the same time enlarge our understanding of space as a critical concept in the humanities. It will prove useful to students, scholars, teachers and theatre practitioners of Shakespeare and early modern studies.
About the author
Isabel Karremann is Professor for Early Modern Literature at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She is the author of The Drama of Memory in Shakespare's History Plays (2015) and has co-edited essay collections on Shakespeare and early modern drama, among them Shakespeare in Cold War Europe: Conflict, Celebration, Commemoration (2016), Forms of Faith: Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Shakespeare's England (2017) and Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England (2022).
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