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This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches.
Sommario
Introduction: Shakespeare and the supernatural - Victoria Bladen and Yan Brailowsky
Part I: Embodying the supernatural1 Shakespeare's political spectres - Victoria Bladen
2 'Rudely stamped': supernatural generation and the limits of power in Shakespeare's
Richard III - Chelsea Phillips
3 Digital puppetry and the supernatural: double Ariel in the Royal Shakespeare Company's
The Tempest (2017) - Anchuli Felicia King
Part II: Haunted spaces4 Demons and puns: Revisiting the 'cellarage scene' in
Hamlet - Pierre Kapitaniak
5 Performing the Shakespearean supernatural in Avignon: a challenge to the Festival - Florence March
Part III: Supernatural utterance and haunted texts6 Prophecy and the supernatural: Shakespeare's challenges to performativity - Yan Brailowsky
7 Puck, Philostrate and the
locus of
A Midsummer Night's Dream's topical allegory - Laurie Johnson
8 'Strange intelligence': Transformations of witchcraft in
Macbeth discourse - William C. Carroll
Part IV: Magic, music and gender9 Music and magic in
The Tempest: Ariel's alchemical songs - Natalie Roulon
10 From Prospero to Prospera: transforming gender and magic on stage and screen - Katharine Goodland
Part V: Contemporary transformations11 'I'll put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes': representing the supernatural in film adaptations of
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Gayle Allan
12 Ophelia and her magical daughters: the afterlives of Ophelia in Japanese pop culture - Yukari Yoshihara
Index
Info autore
Victoria Bladen teaches in literary studies and adaptation at The University of Queensland, Australia
Yan Brailowsky is Senior Lecturer in early modern British history and literature at the University of Paris Nanterre
Riassunto
This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches. -- .
