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How To Do Things With Shakespeare Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford)

How To Do Things With Shakespeare By Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford)

How To Do Things With Shakespeare by Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford)

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This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical positions.

How To Do Things With Shakespeare Summary

How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays by Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford)

HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE

HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE

This is a companion to Shakespeare with a difference. Vive la differance!
DAVID BEVINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Doing things with literature: scholarly articles are not the only way to go. Aristotle uses a lecture, Horace a letter, Sidney a mock oration. Laurie Maguire and the contributors to this book engage in a genial conversation that invites students in. Like all good conversations, this one admits first-person candor, keeps things lively by changing the subject five times, welcomes disagreements, and waits for what the reader-listener is going to do in response.
BRUCE SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

How To Do Things With Shakespeare Reviews

Maguire ... does not seek to force the essays into convenient (and conventional) critical boxes. Rather, she asks her contributors to open their essays with discussions of the questions and contexts that drove them to pursue their topic and then write about it. Highly recommended. (Choice Reviews, October 2008)

About Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford)

Laurie Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College and Reader in English at Oxford University. Her books include Shakespearean Suspect Texts (1996), Studying Shakespeare (2004), Where There's a Will There's a Way (2006), and Shakespeare's Names (2007). Maguire has published widely on Renaissance drama, textual problems, performance, and women's studies.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Laurie E. Maguire (Magdalen College, University of Oxford).

Part I How To Do Things with Sources.

1. French Connections: The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Montaigne and Shakespeare: Richard Scholar (Oriel College, Oxford).

2. Romancing the Greeks: Cymbeline's Genres and Models: Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College, City University of New York).

3. How the Renaissance (Mis)Used Sources: The Art of Misquotation: Julie Maxwell (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge).

Part II How To Do Things with History.

4. Henry VIII, or All is True: Shakespeare's Favorite Play: Chris R. Kyle (Syracuse University).

5. Catholicism and Conversion in Love's Labour's Lost: Gillian Woods (Wadham College, Oxford).

Part III How To Do Things with Texts.

6. Watching as Reading: The Audience and Written Text in Shakespeare's Playhouse: Tiffany Stern (University College, Oxford).

7. What Do Editors Do and Why Does It Matter?: Anthony B. Dawson (University of British Columbia).

Part IV How To Do Things with Animals.

8. The dog is himself: Humans, Animals, and Self-Control in The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Erica Fudge.

(Middlesex University).

9. Sheepishness in The Winter's Tale: Paul Yachnin (McGill University).

Part V How To Do Things with Posterity.

10. Time and the Nature of Sequence in Shakespeare's Sonnets: In sequent toil all forwards do contend: Georgia Brown (independent scholar).

11. Canons and Cultures: Is Shakespeare Universal? : A. E. B. Coldiron (Florida State University).

12. Freezing the Snowman: (How) Can We Do Performance Criticism?: Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford).

Index

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GOR006430323
9781405135276
1405135271
How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays by Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford)
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