1st Edition
Fascinating Rhythms Shakespeare, Theory, Culture, and the Legacy of Terence Hawkes
Introduction, by John Drakakis
Terza Rima for Terry (Meaning by Hawkes), by Christopher Norris
1. "I strike a match": Rereading Hawkes for the Era of Science, Rebellion and Automation, by John Hartley
2. Shakespeare in a Changing World, by Susan Bassnett
3. We That Are Young: Hawkes, Cavell and the Legacies of Lear\, by John J. Joughin
4. Devil-portering in Hell: Teaching Macbeth in Prison, by Jean E. Howard
5. Romancing the Oak: On the Performativity of Trees in Shakespearean Comedy, by Keir Elam
6. Coriolanus: Late Play, faux Tragedy, and Proleptic History, by Hugh Grady
7. Terence Hawkes, Presentism, and the Role of the Critic, by Evelyn Gajowski
8. Semiotics Goes Business, by Malcolm Evans
Appendix. A Terence Hawkes Bibliography
Index
Biography
John Drakakis is Professor Emeritus at the University of Stirling. Among his many publications, he is the editor of Alternative Shakespeares (1985) in the New Accents series, the editor of the Arden 3 series of The Merchant of Venice (2011) and, recently, the author of Shakespeare’s Resources (2021). He has jointly edited Gothic Shakespeares (2008) in the Accents on Shakespeare series and he is the general editor of the Routledge New Critical Idiom series. He was a founder trustee of the British Shakespeare Association, and he was elected an Honorary Fellow in 2018. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Lincoln and Wrexham Glyndwr (where he holds an Honorary Fellowship), he holds an honorary DLitt from the University of Clermont-Ferrand, and he is an elected member of the Academia Europaea.
