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Talking Shakespeare

Shakespeare into the Millennium

  • A new collection of essays by wellrespected Shakespearean scholars
    Covers a wide range of topics including film, gender, race and Elizabethan theatre
    Examines Shakespeare in his time, in our time and in the future

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Deborah Cartmell, Michael Scott
      Pages 1-6
  3. Shakespeare, Theory and Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Talking Shakespeare

      • Michael Scott
      Pages 9-23
    3. How Does Hamlet End?

      • Nigel Wood
      Pages 24-38
    4. Shakespeare and History

      • Dermot Cavanagh
      Pages 70-82
  4. Shakespeare and National Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
  5. Shakespeare, Performance, Sexuality and Race

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
    2. Shakespeare and the Homoerotic

      • Miles Thompson, Imelda Whelehan
      Pages 123-137
    3. Shakespeare and Race: Othello I.iii

      • Deborah Cartmell
      Pages 138-148
  6. Shakespeare, Film and the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
    2. Shakespeare and the Future

      • Kiernan Ryan
      Pages 187-200
    3. Why We Talk Shakespeare

      • Michael J. Collins
      Pages 201-212
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 213-253

About this book

This edited collection of essays on Shakespeare includes writings on Shakespeare in his time, in our time, and in the future. It looks at why we talk so much about Shakespeare by considering the dominant views and theories on his work at the beginning of the new millennium. Essays included examine topics such as touring practices in Shakespeare's day, the history of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare in relation to his contemporaries, Shakespeare and homoeroticism and Shakespeare and the future.

Talking Shakespeare, as its title implies, focuses on the reciprocal relationship between past and present, the way Shakespeare talks to us, the ways in which we talk about Shakespeare, and the way in which Shakespeare, ultimately, is 'all talk'. Indeed the approach employed throughout the book is a consideration of the ways in which the past informs the present as well as how the present informs the past. The book takes a multi-disciplinary view of Shakespeare, looking at how Shakespeare is 'talked about' in the fields of English Studies, Performance Studies and Cultural Studies. There is also an appendix surveying material available on Shakespeare in the electronic or 'virtual' library.

About the authors

DEBORAH CARTMELL is Principal Lecturer in the department of English at De Montfort University, Leicester.

MICHAEL SCOTT is Professor of English and Pro Vice Chancellor at De Montfort University.

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