Shakespeare in the North

Place, Politics and Performance in England and Scotland

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3593-2 (ISBN)

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This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays. Considering how Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood the ‘North’, it brings together diverse voices to define what the ‘North’ meant and means in relation to Shakespeare. The book also situates Shakespeare’s works alongside less canonical texts and media, as well as detailed case studies of new material from rich but rarely-used local, municipal and performance archives. It provides an opportunity to critically reflect on links and differences between the past and present, England and Scotland, the local and the global.

Adam Hansen is Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University. He is the author of Shakespeare and Popular Music (Continuum, 2010) and co-editor of several collections, including Shakespearean Echoes, with Kevin J. Wetmore, eds. (Palgrave, 2015) and The White Devil: A Critical Reader, with Paul Frazer, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2016). He is on the editorial board of This Rough Magic, and Reviews Editor for English: The Journal of the English Association.

AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction, Adam Hansen

I: Shakespeare and the Early Modern North

Shakespeare’s Northern Blood: Transfusing Gorboduc into Macbeth and Cymbeline, Paul Frazer

‘Here are strangers near at hand’: Anglo-Scottish Border Crossings Pre- and Post-Union, Steve Veerapen
Shakespeare, King James and the Northern Yorkists, Richard Stacey
North by North-West: Shakespeare’s Shifting Frontier, Lisa Hopkins

II: Performing Shakespeare in the North

The People’s Shakespeare: Place, Politics, and Performance in a Northern Amateur Theatre, Adam Hansen
Only Northerners need apply? Northern Broadsides and ‘no-nonsense’ Shakespeare, Caroline Heaton
Shakespeare and Blackpool: The RSC A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016): A Play for the Nation?, Janice Wardle
William the Conqueror: The Only Shakescene in a Country, Richard Wilson

III: Appropriating Shakespeare in the North

‘What is Shakespeare to Manchester’?: Shakespearean Engagement in The North at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Monika Smialkowska
A Road by Any Other Name: Heaton History Group, a North East suburb, and Shakespeare, Chris Jackson
Lancastrian Shakespeares: Hamlet and King Lear in North West England (2005-2014), Liz Oakley-Brown
Shakespeare’s Cheek: Macbeth, Dunsinane and the Jacobean Condition, James Loxley

Postscript: News from the North, Willy Maley

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	1 black and white illustration
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-3593-9 / 1474435939
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3593-2 / 9781474435932
Zustand	Neuware