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This book asks new questions about how Shakespeare engages with source material, and what should be counted as sources. The essays demonstrate that source study remains an indispensable mode of inquiry for understanding Shakespeare, his authorship and audiences, and early modern gender, racial, and class relations, as well as for considering how
List of contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Dennis Austin Britton and Melissa Walter
Part One: Source Study, Sustainability, and Cultural Diversity
Toward a Sustainable Source Study
Lori Humphrey Newcomb
Contaminatio, Race, and Pity in Othello
Dennis Austin Britton
Translating Plautus to Bohemia: Ruzante, Ludovico, and The Winter’s Tale
Jane Tylus
Veiled Revenants and the Risks of Hospitality: Euripides’ Alcestis, the
Renaissance Novella, and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
Susanne L. Wofford
Part Two: Sources and Audiences
Traces of Knowledge: Microsource Study in Cymbeline and Lear
Meredith Beales
Reconstructing Holinshed: History and Romance in Henry VIII
Dimitry Senyshyn
Shakespeare’s Transformative Art: Theatrical Paradigms as Sources
in All’s Well that Ends Well and Macbeth
David Kay
Part Three: Authorship and Transmission
Diachronic and Synchronic: Two Problems of Textual Relations
in The Comedy of Errors
Kent Cartwright
Greek Sacrifice in Shakespeare’s Rome: Titus Andronicus and Iphigenia
in Aulis
Penelope Meyers Usher
Multiple Materials and Motives in Two Gentlemen of Verona
Meredith Skura
The Curious Case of Mr. William Shakespeare and the Red Herring:
Twelfth Night and its Sources
Mark Houlahan
Part Four: Source Study in the Digital Age
Shakespeare Source Study in the Age of Google: Revisiting
Greenblatt’s Elephant’s and Horatio’s Ground
Brett D. Hirsch and Laurie Johnson
"Tangled in a net": Shakespeare the Adaptor/Shakespeare the Source
Janelle Jenstad
Lost Plays and Source Study
David McInnis
About the author
Dennis Austin Britton is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of New Hampshire, USA.
Melissa Walter is Associate Professor in the Department of English at University of the Fraser Valley, Canada.
Summary
This book asks new questions about how Shakespeare engages with source material, and what should be counted as sources. The essays demonstrate that source study remains an indispensable mode of inquiry for understanding Shakespeare, his authorship and audiences, and early modern gender, racial, and class relations, as well as for considering how
