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Shakespeare and Space

Theatrical Explorations of the Spatial Paradigm

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Editors:
  1. Ina Habermann

    1. University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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  2. Michelle Witen

    1. University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies (PASHST)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 269-282
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About this book

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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Ina Habermann, Michelle Witen

About the editors

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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