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Zusatztext 'An original social theory and research methodology that draws on cultural anthropology, cognitive science, and physics as well as phenomenology and materialism, 'transversal poetics' is Bryan Reynolds' brilliant response to the need for more politically charged, inclusive, and witty critical inquiry. This book will not only be enormously valuable to students and scholars of early modern English theatre and culture, but it will also be one with which future scholarship in these fields will have to contend.' - Patrice Pavis, Professor of Theatre, University of Paris VIII-Saint-Denis, France 'Bryan Reynolds and his collaborators have produced an ambitious and energetic reformulation of the relations between culture and politics. This lively and accessible book offers 'transversalism' as a nuanced and responsive key to the interpretation of literary texts.' - Professor Alan Sinfield, University of Sussex, UK 'The transversal Shakespeare is the endlessly galvanizing Shakespeare, always offering new resources for individual agency and cultural transformation. Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries is driven by the determination of Bryan Reynolds and his collaborators to breathe new life into the Shakespeare criticism of our time. They incorporate and transform the critical theory we have inherited while expanding the frame to include new developments in performance theory, historical criticism, and the 'genetics' of culture. Eclectic, synthetic, and free-wheeling rather than monolithic, the book provocatively deploys its own 'transversal' vocabulary while challenging us to read afresh - and respond energetically - at every turn. Love it or hate it, this is a 'next generation' book.' - Professor Jonathan Crewe, Dartmouth University, USA 'The book offers a valuable language of analysis and argument for so many different fields of study-but perhaps most pointedly to those interested in the question of adaptation, or in how texts accrete significance as they travel or are successively performed (in all senses).' - Dr. Julian Yates, University of Delaware, USA '...one of the most sophisticated and important theoretical treatments of early modern literature that has emerged since the decline of New Historicism.' - Paul Cefalu, Shakespeare Quarterly '...a brilliant book, used by scholars and being read in graduate theatre theory and Jacobean drama courses everywhere... Bryan Reynolds has a new, if I might even say, American theory, which endorses potential.' - Professor Marianne McDonald, University of California, San Diego, USA 'This book is a stimulating intervention into theoretical debates on Shakespeare. It is provocative, theoretically daring and critically adventurous. Reynolds and his collaborators write about Shakespeare and theory in ways which will create heated debates in conferences and postgraduate seminars and will fuel undergraduate students' critical imaginations. Essays on topics such as the 'werewolf within' and 'R&J Space' will engage students by showing them how critical approaches to Shakespeare's work can be both contemporary and creative. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in theorising the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in performance.' - Professor Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Lancashire, UK '...a virtual amusement park of intellectual excitement. Even though clearly developed themes (consciousness, phenomenology, accountability, space) weave the book together, each chapter offers a separate experience, a distinct ride into some other uncharted region of early modern English history.' - Professor Mihaela Irimia, University of Bucharest, Romania 'Witty, lively and original in conception and execution, Bryan Reynolds and his co-authors have reanimated canonical Shakespearean and Renaissance drama by reading them uncannily in relation both to the mo...
