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Shakespeare in the North : place, politics and performance in England and Scotland /

This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hansen, Adam (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • I: Shakespeare and the Early Modern North
  • 1. Shakespeare's Northern Blood: Transfusing Gorboduc into Macbeth and Cymbeline
  • 2. 'Here are strangers near at hand': Anglo-Scottish Border Crossings Pre- and Post-Union
  • 3. Shakespeare, King James and the Northern Yorkists
  • 4. North by Northwest: Shakespeare's Shifting Frontier
  • II: Performing Shakespeare in the North
  • 5. The People's Shakespeare: Place, Politics and Performance in a Northern Amateur Theatre
  • 6. Only Northerners Need Apply? Northern Broadsides and 'No-nonsense' Shakespeare
  • 7. Shakespeare and Blackpool: The RSC's A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016): A Play for the Nation?
  • 8. William the Conqueror: The Only Shakescene in a Country
  • III: Appropriating Shakespeare in the North
  • 9. 'What is Shakespeare to Manchester'? Shakespearean Engagement in the North at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • 10. A Road by Any Other Name: Heaton History Group, a North East Suburb and Shakespeare
  • 11. Lancastrian Shakespeares: Hamlet and King Lear in North West England (2005-2014)
  • 12. Shakespeare's Cheek: Macbeth, Dunsinane and the Jacobean Condition
  • Postscript: News from the North
  • Index