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How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays
Laurie Maguire (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3526-9
Hardcover
320 pages
October 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Reviews
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