Shakespeare without Boundaries: Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl

by Christa Jansohn (Editor), Lena Cowen Orlin (Editor), Stanley Wells (Editor), Christa Jansohn (Contribution by), Ann Jennalie Cook (Contribution by)

Overview

Shakespeare without Boundaries: Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl offers a wide-ranging collection of essays written by an international team of distinguished scholars who attempt to define, to challenge, and to erode boundaries that currently inhibit understanding of Shakespeare, and to exemplify how approaches that defy traditional bounds of study and criticism may enhance understanding and enjoyment of a dramatist who acknowledged no boundaries in art.

The Volume is published in tribute to Professor Dieter Mehl, whose critical and scholarly work on authors from Chaucer through Shakespeare to D. H. Lawrence has transcended temporal and national boundaries in its range and scope, and who, as Ann Jennalie Cook writes, has contributed significantly to the erasure of political boundaries that have endangered the unity of German literary scholarship and, more broadly, through his work for the International Shakespeare Association, to the globalization of Shakespeare studies.

Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644531570
Publisher:	University of Delaware Press
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Christa Jansohn is Professor of British Culture and Director of the Centre for British Studies at the University of Bamberg.

Lena Cowen Orlin is Professor of English at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Stanley Wells is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute and Chairman of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 9

Foreword: Shakespeare without Boundaries Christa Jansohn 11

Dieter Mehl: The Boundary Grosser Ann Jennalie Cook 15

Part I Early Modern Playwriting and Editing: Boundaries and Thoroughfares

The Limitations of the First Folio Paul Edmondson Stanley Wells 23

Anonymous Was a Woman Phyllis Rackin 35

Thomas Heywood, Script-Doctor Grace Ioppolo 47

Part II Beyond the Bounds of Medium: From Page to Stage to World Wide Web

Performance and the Play-Text R. A. Foakes 63

"He shifteth his speech": Accents and Dialects in Plays by Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Brian Gibbons 76

Shakespeare and Dance: Dissolving Boundaries Alan Brissenden 92

Passing Through: Shakespeare, Theater Companies, and the Internet Peter Holland 107

Part III Grossing Intratextual Boundaries

Making Mistakes: Shakespeare, Metonymy, and Hamlet Ann Thompson John O. Thompson 123

Dot Dot or Dash: A Strange SOS from Prospero's Island Bruce R. Smith 138

The Problematization of Generic Boundaries: Lyrical Inroads into Shakespeare's Dramatic Dialogue Alexander Shurbanov 150

Part IV Crossing Intertextual Boundaries

William and Geoffrey Catherine Belsey 175

"It will have blood they say; blood will have blood" - Proverb Usage and the Vague and Undetermined Places of Macbeth Martin Orkin 189

The Fall of a Sparrow: Shakespearean Tragedy and the Bible Piero Boitani 203

Part V Dissolving National Boundaries

Foundational Myth in Cymbeline David Bevington 219

Shakespeare and Velázquez Hugh Macrae Richmond 241

Crossing the Dotted Line: Shakespeare and Geography Chee-Seng Lim 253

Part VI Boundary Crossings: Translation and National Discourses

"there's the rub": Translating Hamlet's Thought Process Werner Habicht 207

"Bottom, thou art translated": Translation as a Boundary and a Bridge Marta Gibinska 283

Hamlet across Boundaries of Language and Genre in Jacinto Benavente's Comedy Hamlet's Jester Jesus Tronch 292

Part VII Boundary Crossings: "Afterlives"; or, Shakespeare without Boundaries

Hamlet's Furniture: Shakespeare Sat Here Catherine M. S. Alexander 305

Dickens and Shakespeare's Ghost(s) Adrian Poole 322

Madame Odier Illustrates Shakespeare Georgianna Ziegler 337

Shakespeare in the Edwardian Nursery: Simple Stories as the Passport to Plays Velma Bourgeois Richmond 352

Contributors 368

Index 375