Shakespeare’s Things : Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance Hardback
Edited by Brett Gamboa, Lawrence Switzky
Part of the Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture series
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Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries.
The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named.
By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages, 5 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/11/2019
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- ISBN:9780367429072
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages, 5 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/11/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367429072
