Table of Contents

Preface - Lena Orlin List of Contributors Introduction - Dympna Callaghan and Suzanne Gossett Feminism Why Feminism Still Matters - Phyllis Rackin Just Imagine - Kathryn Schwarz Letters, Characters, Roots - Wendy Wall Sexuality Deeds, Desire, Delight - Bruce R. Smith Rethinking Sexual Acts and Identities - Mario DiGangi HexaSexuality - Madhavi Menon Teaching The Classroom - David Bevington Money for Jam - Marjorie Garber Extension Work - Patricia Cahill Editing Facts, Theories, and Beliefs - Barbara A. Mowat What We Owe to Editors - Lukas Erne What's Next in Editing Shakespeare - Sonia Massai Mortality Suicide as Profit or Loss - Mary Beth Rose Death and King Lear - Michael Neill Shakespeare's Here - Scott L. Newstok Media Spectatorship, Remediation, and One Hundred Years of Hamlet - James C. Bulman Performing Shakespeare through Social Media - Pascale Aebischer Reading Shakespeare through Media Archaeology - Alan Galey Race and Class Is Black so Base a Hue? - Jean E. Howard The Race of Shakespeare's Mind - Lara Bovilsky Speaking of Race - Ian Smith Sources Shakespeare and the Bible - Robert S. Miola Shakespeare's Sources - Ania Loomba Volver, or Coming Back - Sarah Beckwith Text and Authorship Collaboration 2016 - Gary Taylor The Value of Stage Directions - Laurie Maguire The Author Being Dead - Adam G. Hooks Globalization Against Our Own Ignorance - Susanne L. Wofford Circumnavigation, Shakespeare, and the Origins of Globalization - Daniel Vitkus The Bard in Calcutta, India, 1835-2014 - Jyotsna G. Singh Bodies and Emotions Bodies without Borders in Lear and Macbeth - Gail Kern Paster Potions, Passion, and Fairy Knowledge in A Midsummer Night's Dream - Mary Floyd-Wilson Shakespeare and Variant Embodiment - David Houston Wood Social Context Social Contexting - Frances E. Dolan "Hic et ubique": Hamlet in Sync - Bradin Bormack Playing in Context, Playing out Context - William N. West Historicism Historicizing Historicism - William C. Carroll Minding Anachronism - Margreta de Grazia The Historicist as Gamer - Gina Bloom Appropriations American Appropriation through the Centuries - Georgianna Ziegler Appropriation 2.0 - Christy Desmet Appropriation in Contemporary Fiction - Andrew Hartley Biography Shakespeare and Biography - Peter Holland Shakespeare's Friends and Family in the Archives - David Kathman Biography vs. Novel - Lois Potter Classicism The Classics as Popular Discourse - Coppelia Kahn Shakespeare's Classicism, Redux - Lynn Enterline Time, Verisimilitude, and the Counter-Classical Ovid - Heather James Public Shakespeare The Publicity of the Look - Paul Yachnin Public Women / Women of Valor - Julia Reinhard Lupton The Ghost of the Public University - Henry S. Turner Style William Shakespeare, Elizabethan Stylist - Russ McDonald Nondramatic Style - Stephen Guy-Bray Shakespeare's Lexical Style - Alysia Kolentsis Performance Pluralizing Performance - Diana E. Henderson The Study of Historical Performance - Tiffany Stern Shakespeare / Performance - W. B. Worthen Ecocriticism Shakespeare and Nature - Rebecca Bushnell Shakespeare without Nature - Steve Mentz The Chicken and the Egg - Karen Raber Afterword: Shakespeare in Tehran - Stephen Greenblatt

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Marking the 400th anniversary of his death, leading Shakespeareans reflect back on key developments in criticism and look forward to new areas of study

About the Author

Dympna Callaghan is William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters at Syracuse University, USA. Suzanne Gossett is Emeritus Professor of Literature at Loyola University, Chicago, USA.

Reviews

Shakespeare in Our Time is an invaluable source in presenting illuminating and intriguing approaches to Shakespeare’s plays. In its twenty articles it is ultimately a challenging conversation among distinguished scholars of the early modern period. The chapters raise interesting and innovative concerns, such as American appropriation, social context, Shakespeare’s sources, and text, and cover a wide range of critical approaches from feminism to ecocriticism, from sexuality to morality, from media to race and class systems, and from historicism to globalization. Each section includes three or four articles from various critical approaches that both broaden the reader’s understanding and approach the matter with new perspectives … Shakespeare in Our Time enriches and broadens the understanding of students and instructors with clear guidance of Shakespeare studies. All chapters, but particularly chapters on teaching, editing, and biography, are informative and beneficial for pedagogical interests. In each chapter, authors present interesting, innovative, and challenging approaches to help students understand their world by learning from Shakespeare’s language, characters, and messages. The book provides professors, students, and readers with eye-opening analyses that will help extend their horizons.
*Sixteenth Century Journal*