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How To Do Things With Shakespeare : New Approaches, New Essays

  • How To Do Things With Shakespeare : New Approaches, New  Essays
  • Attribution

    edited by Laurie Maguire
  • Publication Details

    Book, Blackwell Pub, 2008
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PR2976 .H69 2008  DUE 03-28-10

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    A helpful guidebook for anyone trying to think of a new approach to Shakespeare Twelve experts take new critical positions in their field of study using the writings and analysis of Shakespeare, to show how writers (students and academics) find topics and develop their ideas Features autobiographical prefaces that explain how the experts chose their topics and why the editor commissioned these particular essays, topics, and authors Argues that literary research is a reaction to experiences, thoughts or feelings Essays are arranged in small dialogues of two or three, forming a debate Teaches students to respond individually to cultural positions (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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    • pt. 1. How to do things with sources. French connections : The Je-Ne-Sais in Montaigne and Shakespeare / Richard Scholar
    • Romancing the Greeks : Cymbeline’s genres and models / Tanya Pollard
    • How the Renaissance misused sources : The art of misquotation / Julie Maxwell
    • pt. 2. How to do things with history. Henry VIII or all is true : Shakespeare’s ‘favorite’ play / Chris R. Kyle
    • Catholicism and conversion in Love’s Labour’s lost / Gillian Woods
    • pt. 3. How to do things with texts. Watching as reading : The audience and written text in Shakespeare’s playhouse / Tiffany Stern
    • What do editors do and why does it matter? / Anthony B. Dawson
    • pt. 4. How to do things with animals. "The dog is himself" : Humans, animals, and self-control in The two gentlemen of Verona / Erica Fudge
    • Sheepishness in The winter’s tale / Paul Yachmin
    • pt. 5. How to do things with posterity. Time and nature of sequence in Shakespeare’s sonnets : "n sequent toil all forwards do contend"Georgia Brown
    • Canons and cultures : Is Shakespeare universal? / A. E. B. Coldiron
    • "Freezing the snowman" : (How) can he do performance criticism? / Emma Smith
  • ISBN

    • 1405135271
    • 9781405135276
    • 1405135263
    • 9781405135269
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