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Zusatztext [A] stimulating collection of essays … this volume not only consolidates the centrality of sensory scholarship, but also succeeds in offering new inroads, methodologies and concepts … Readers will find themselves returning to its stimulating and careful treatment of sensory studies. Informationen zum Autor Farah Karim-Cooper is Head of Higher Education & Research, Shakespeare’s Globe and Professor of Shakespeare Studies, King’s College London, UK. . Gordon McMullan is a professor of English at King's College London, UK. Lucy Munro is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at King’s College London, UK. She is the author of Children of the Queen’s Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory (2005), Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674 (2013) and Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men (2020), and the editor of plays including Fletcher’s The Tamer Tamed and Dekker, Ford and Rowley’s The Witch of Edmonton . Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy, and Visiting Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London, UK. With Amy Lidster, she is co-editor of Shakespeare at War: A Material History (2023) and co-curator of the Shakespeare and War exhibition at the National Army Museum (October 2023 – April 2024). Her other publications include her books on Shakespeare’s Accents: Voicing Identity in Performance (2020) and Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (2007), her collections of essays on Hamlet for the Arden Shakespeare ‘State of Play’ series (The Arden Shakespeare, 2021), on Ivo van Hove (Methuen Drama, 2018), Shakespeare and Textual Studies (2015) and on World-Wide Shakespeares (2005), and critical editions of The Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 (2014) and John Ford's ’ Tis Pity She's a Whore for Arden Early Modern Drama (The Arden Shakespeare, 2011). Klappentext Introduction Part I - Theorising Sensation 1. Framing Shakespeare's Senses; Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California! USA) 2. Admiring the Nothing of It: Shakespeare and the Senseless; Steven Connor (Peterhouse! Cambridge! UK) 3. The Classical Tradition; Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center! City University of New York! USA) Part II - The Early Modern Sensorium 4. 'Sweet Above Compare'? Disputing about Taste in Venus and Adonis ! Love's Labour's Lost ! Othello ! and Troilus and Cressida ; Elizabeth L. Swann (Durham University! UK) 5. Hamlet 's Visual Stagecraft and Early Modern Cultures of Sight; Simon Smith (Shakespeare Institute! University of Birmingham! UK) 6. The Smell of a King: Olfaction in King Lear ; Holly Dugan (The George Washington University! USA) 7. 'Amorous Pinches': Keeping (In)tact in Antony and Cleopatra; Jennifer Edwards (Shakespeare's Globe! UK)8. Hearing at the Surface in The Comedy of Errors ; Katherine Hunt (The Queen's College! University of Oxford! UK) Part III - Entangled Senses 9. Sense! Reason! and the Animal-Human Boundary in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; Natalie K. Eschenbaum (University of Wisconsin - La Crosse! USA) 10. Sense and Community: Twelfth Night and early modern playgoing; Jackie Watson (Oxford! UK) 11. Simular Proof and Senseless Feeling: Synaesthetic Overload in Cymbeline ; Darryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland! Australia) 12. Pinching Caliban: Race! Husbandry! and the Working Body in The Tempest ; Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University - Newark! USA) Part IV - Sensing Shakespeare 13. Shakespeare and the Seven Senses: Scenes from the Twenty-First-Century Stage; Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute! University of Birmingham! UK) 14. Parted Eyes and Generation Gaps in Twenty-First-Century Perceptions of ...
