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Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts

Edited by Mark Thornton Burnett, Adrian Streete and Ramona Wray

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About this book

Explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to artistic practices and activities, past and present
This substantial reference work explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to cultural processes that take in publishing, exhibiting, performing, reconstructing and disseminating.
The 30 newly commissioned chapters are divided into 6 sections:

  • Shakespeare and the Book
  • Shakespeare and Music
  • Shakespeare on Stage and in Performance
  • Shakespeare and Youth Culture
  • Shakespeare, Visual and Material Culture
  • Shakespeare, Media and Culture


Each chapter provides both a synthesis and a discussion of a topic, informed by current thinking and theoretical reflection.
Key Features

  • Addresses Shakespeare in terms of a global frame of reference
  • Chapters consider chronology and overview, critical history and analysis
  • Responds to a growing critical and pedagogical interest in the relations between Shakespeare, the arts, film, performance and mass media more generally
Table of contents

Introduction - Mark Thornton Burnett, Adrian Streete and Ramona Wray

Part 1: Shakespeare and the Book
1 Textual Shakespeare - Sonia Massai
2 Shakespeare and Poetry - Peter Holbrook
3 Shakespeare and the Novel - Marianne Novy
4 Shakespeare and Translation - Alexander C. Y. Huang
5 Shakespeare Anthologized - Kate Rumbold
6 Shakespeare and Biography - David Bevington

Part 2: Shakespeare and Music
7 Shakespeare and Early Modern Music - Christopher R. Wilson
8 Shakespeare and Opera - Adrian Streete
9 Shakespeare and Classical Music - Julie Sanders
10 Shakespeare and Musical Theatre - Fran Teague
11 Shakespeare, Ballet and Dance - Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
12 Shakespeare and Popular Music - Adam Hansen

Part 3: Shakespeare on Stage and in Performance
13 Shakespeare and Drama - Lucy Munro
14 Shakespeare and the Renaissance Stage - Edel Lamb
15 Shakespeare and the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Stage - Fiona Ritchie
16 Shakespeare and the Victorian Stage - Richard Foulkes
17 Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - Christie Carson
18 Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance Spaces - Andrew James Hartley

Part 4: Shakespeare and Youth Culture
19 Shakespeare for Children - Amy Scott-Douglass
20 Shakespeare and Teenagers - Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
21 Shakespeare and the Comic Book - Michael P. Jensen

Part 5: Shakespeare, Visual and Material Culture
22 Shakespeare, Portraiture, Painting, and Prints - Erin C. Blake
23 Shakespeare, Sculpture and the Material Arts - Balz Engler
24 Shakespeare Exhibition and Festival Culture - Mark Thornton Burnett

Part 6: Shakespeare, Media and Culture
25 Shakespeare and Silent Film - Judith Buchanan
26 Shakespeare on Film, 1930-1990 - Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède
27 Shakespeare on Film, 1990-2010 - Ramona Wray
28 Shakespeare on Television -Stephen Purcell
29 Shakespeare and 29 Shakespeare and Radio - Susanne Greenhalgh
30 Shakespeare on the Internet and in Digital Media - Michael Best

Notes on Contributors
Index

About the contributors

Mark Thornton Burnett

Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience (Macmillan, 1997), Constructing ‘Monsters’ in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (Palgrave, 2002) and Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (Palgrave, 2007).

Adrian Streete

Dr Adrian Streete is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Queen's University Belfast.

Ramona Wray

Dr Ramona Wray is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Queen's University Belfast.

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