Shakespearean International Yearbook - 17: Special Section, Shakespeare and Value

Informationen zum Autor Tom Bishop , Professor of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand Alexa Alice Joubin , Professor of English, George Washington University and Research Affiliate, MIT, USA Zusammenfassung Currently in its seventeenth year and formerly published by Ashgate, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time, across the whole spectrum of his literary output. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Preface General Editors PART I: SPECIAL SECTION: SHAKESPEARE AND VALUE Introduction: Simon Haines 2. Why Is Shakespeare the World’s Most-Performed Dramatist? Graham Bradshaw 3. "What’s aught but as ’tis valued?": Problems of Value and Unequal Exchange in The Merchant of Venice , Troilus and Cressida , and Cymbeline Ros King 4. "The god called Nothingness": Büchner, Shakespeare and Original Sin John Gillies 5. Sprezzatura and Cultural Capital in The Merchant of Venice Indira Ghose 6. Shakespeare and Dependency Peter Holbrook 7. "Dress’d in a Little Brief Authority": Shakespeare and the Value of Dissent R. S. White 8. Glassy Essence and the Life of Pi: Incommensurability in Measure for Measure Simon Haines PART II: REVIEW ESSAY 9. A New Era of Global Shakespeare: The State of the Field, 2014-2015 Carla Della Gatta Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

Product details

• Authors: Tom (University of Auckland) Joubin Bishop
• Assisted by: Tom Bishop (Editor), Alexa Joubin (Editor), Alexa Alice Joubin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2018
• EAN: 9781138497108
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49710-8
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: The Shakespearean International Yearbook
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays