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1. Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia

   Edited by Poonam Trivedi, Minami Ryuta

   Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

   This book reviews the "playing" of Shakespeare in which there is a re-staging and a re-writing -- through adaptation, appropriation, or acculturation -- of the Western Shakespeare into the gestural, symbolic, stylized, or ritualized worlds of Asian theatre languages. It examines this interface in...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Memory in Shakespeare's Histories

   Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England

   By Jonathan Baldo

   Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

   A distinguishing feature of Shakespeare’s later histories is the prominent role he assigns to the need to forget. This book explore the ways in which Shakespeare expanded the role of forgetting in histories from King John to Henry V, as England contended with what were perceived to be traumatic...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
3. Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings

   By James O'Rourke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

   This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist Shakespeare is not an anachronism. Relying on a Brechtian aesthetic of "naïve surrealism" as the performative model of the...

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
4. Radical Shakespeare

   Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career

   By Chris Fitter

   Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

   This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries,...

   Published October 24th 2011 by Routledge
5. Shakespeare and Philosophy

   By Stanley Stewart

   Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

   Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about "Shakespeare" as a subject of philosophy, from the seventeenth-century to the present. Stewart's volume...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Form of the Book

   Contested Scriptures

   Edited by Travis DeCook, Alan Galey

   Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

   Why do Shakespeare and the English Bible seem to have an inherent relationship with each other? How have these two monumental traditions in the history of the book functioned as mutually reinforcing sources of cultural authority? How do material books and related reading practices serve as specific...

   Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
7. Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance

   By Catherine Silverstone

   Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

   Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to account for – but not to rationalize – the ongoing and pernicious effects of various forms of violence as...

   Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
8. Crossing Gender in Shakespeare

   Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within

   By James W. Stone

   Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

   In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of the dialogue between Shakespeare and his...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge