Shakespeare and Space

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction

   • Ina Habermann, Michelle Witen

   Pages 1-13

3. Shakespearean Spaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Shakespeare’s Enclaves

      • Andreas Mahler

      Pages 17-37

   3. The Theatrical Topology of Tyranny in Richard III

      • Christina Wald

      Pages 39-57

   4. Thickets and Beaches: Evoking Place in the Stories of King Lear

      • Werner Brönnimann

      Pages 59-78

   5. ‘The Lady Shall Say Her Mind Freely’: Shakespeare and the S/Pace of Blank Verse

      • Margaret Tudeau-Clayton

      Pages 79-102

   6. Hybrid Spaces in Antony and Cleopatra

      • Elisabeth Bronfen

      Pages 103-120

   7. The Sea in Pericles

      • Bernhard Klein

      Pages 121-140

4. Migrating Shakespeare, Migrating Hamlet

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Universals in the Bush: The Case of Hamlet

      • Dominique Brancher

      Pages 143-162

   3. The German Hamlet: Ghostly Encounters in the Space of the Stage and the Novel

      • Alexander Honold

      Pages 163-189

   4. ‘One Cannot Act Hamlet, One Must Be Hamlet’: The Acculturation of Hamlet in Russia

      • Thomas Grob

      Pages 191-227

   5. Hamlet’s Mobility: The Reception of Shakespeare’s Tragedy in US American and Canadian Narrative Fiction

      • Gabriele Rippl

      Pages 229-255

   6. Local Habitations: Hamlet at Helsingør, Juliet at Verona

      • Balz Engler

      Pages 257-267

5. Back Matter

   Pages 269-282

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This collection offers an overview of the ways in which space has become relevant to the study of Shakespearean drama and theatre. It distinguishes various facets of space, such as structural aspects of dramatic composition, performance space and the evocation of place, linguistic, social and gendered spaces, early modern geographies, and the impact of theatrical mobility on cultural exchange and the material world. These facets of space are exemplified in individual essays. Throughout, the Shakespearean stage is conceived as a topological ‘node’, or interface between different times, places and people – an approach which also invokes Edward Soja’s notion of ‘Thirdspace’ to describe the blend between the real and the imaginary characteristic of Shakespeare’s multifaceted theatrical world. Part Two of the volume emphasises the theatrical mobility of Hamlet – conceptually from an anthropological perspective, and historically in the tragedy’s migrations to Germany, Russia and NorthAmerica. 

• Early Modern Drama
• Geocriticism
• Early Modern Theatre
• Literary Geography
• Shakespeare
• Early Modern Geographies
• Shakespeare and Space
• Shakespeare in North America
• Shakespeare in Germany
• Shakespeare in Russia
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  Ina Habermann, Michelle Witen

Ina Habermann is Professor of English at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the author of Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England (2003) and Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: J.B. Priestley and the Symbolic Form of Englishness (2010). 

 

Michelle Witen is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research interests include Modernist incorporations of musical structure and nineteenth-century newspapers. Her monograph James Joyce’s Absolute Music is forthcoming.

 

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