Shakespeare / Space: Contemporary Readings in Spatiality, Culture and Drama (Arden Shakespeare Intersections) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350282979 ISBN 13: 9781350282971

Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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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).

Edition details

• Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350282979
• ISBN 13: 9781350282971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Karremann Isabel