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Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual and artistic contexts that extend beyond.
List of contents
Forum: For Mike Bristol
Big-Time Shakespeare, Calvin and Hobbes, and Sandy Koufax: How Michael Bristol Ruined My Life
J.F. Bernard
"I have drunk and seen the spider": Cognition, Affect, and the Carnivalesque in The Winter's Tale
Gail Kern Paster
"Married in conjunction"? Shakespearean Conversations and Complications
James Siemon
Michael Bristol's Heuristics of Carnival in London's Civic Pageantry
Jill Ingram
Shakespeare's Virtues for Our Times
Unhae Park Langis and Julia Reinhard Lupton
Trauma-Informed "Vernacular Criticism" and Pedagogy: A Case Study of Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece
Anna Lewton-Brain and Brooke Harvey
Shakespearean Jus Post Bellum: Ethical Ends to War in Henry V
Nicholas Utzig
Shakespeare's Gifts: Commerce, Conversation, Conversion
Paul Yachnin
Next Generation Plenary
Introduction
How to Do Things with Sweat
Beatrice Bradley
The Specter of Disability in Early Modern Drama
Evyan Dale Gainey
The Devil You Know: Anti-Black Racism and the Mythologies of English Witchcraft
Hannah Korell
Epicene: Female Revenge in the Husband-Taming Comedy
Bailey Sincox
Did Environmental Catastrophe Have a Renaissance?
John Yargo
Articles
A Gift to Anti-Semites: Shylock on the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Stage
Laurence Senelick
Metatheater and the Urban Everyday in Ben Jonson's Epicoene and The Alchemist
Christopher D'addario
Elbowing Katherine of Valois
Denise A. Walen
Review Essay
Heather James, Ovid and Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England and Christina Luckyj, Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England
Jenny C. Mann
Reviews
Richard Ashby, King Lear 'After' Auschwitz: Shakespeare, Appropriation and Theatres of Catastrophe in Post-War British Drama
Martin Harries
William C. Carroll, Adapting Macbeth: A Cultural History and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. , Shakespeare and British World War II Film
Yu Jin Ko
Hugh Grady, Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope: From the Political to the Utopian
John Drakakis
Diana E. Henderson and Kyle Sebastian Vitale, eds., Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy:
Case Studies and Strategies
Christie Carson
Peter Holland, Shakespeare and Forgetting
Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
Sonya Freeman Loftis, Shakespeare and Disability Studies
Justin P. Shaw
Alex MacConochie, Staging Touch in Shakespeare's England
Laura Seymour
Lena Cowen Orlin, The Private Life of William Shakespeare
Laurie Maguire
About the author
James R. Siemon is professor of English at Boston University.
Diana E. Henderson is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of Literature at MIT.
Summary
Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual and artistic contexts that extend beyond.
