Shakespeare and Stratford

As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife. The essays in this volume consider the various manifestations of the physical and metaphorical town on the Avon, across time, genre and place, from America to New Zealand, from children's literature to wartime commemorations. We meet many Stratfords in this collection, real and imaginary, and the interplay between the two generates new visions of the place.

List of contents

Preface

Katherine Scheil

Chapter 1. Helen Faucit and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1879

Christy Desmet

Chapter 2. Secret Stratford: Shakespeare's Hometown in Recent Young Adult Fiction

Susanne Greenhalgh

Chapter 3. Stratfordian Perambulations; or, Walking with Shakespeare

Julie Sanders



Chapter 4. Shakespeare's Church and the Pilgrim Fathers: Commemorating Plymouth Rock in Stratford

Clara Calvo

Chapter 5. Importing Stratford

Katherine Scheil

Afterword: 'Dear Shakespeare-land': Investing in Stratford

Nicola J. Watson

About the author

Katherine Scheil is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre (2003) and most recently, of She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America (2012). She has recently published the very first cultural history of Anne Hathaway: Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway (2018).

Summary

As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Scheil
• Assisted by: Katherine Scheil (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781789202557
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-255-7
• No. of pages: 115
• Series: Shakespeare And...; Shakespeare; Shakespeare &
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean