Shakespeare in the North - by Adam Hansen (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays. Considering how Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood the 'North', it brings together diverse voices to define what the 'North' meant and means in relation to Shakespeare. The book also situates Shakespeare's works alongside less canonical texts and media, as well as detailed case studies of new material from rich but rarely-used local, municipal and performance archives. It provides an opportunity to critically reflect on links and differences between the past and present, England and Scotland, the local and the global.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'In Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, the ruthless mill owner learns his disastrous industrial strategy from Coriolanus. The excellent contributors to Shakespeare in the North expand this fruitfully antagonistic relationship, placing England's national poet to the north of traditional centres of culture and replacing Stratford, London, Arden and Windsor with Blackpool, Edinburgh, Northumberland and Tyneside.' Emma Smith, University of Oxford Presents fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's representations of and in the 'North', past and present This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays. Considering how Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood the 'North', it brings together diverse voices to define what the 'North' meant and means in relation to Shakespeare. The book also situates Shakespeare's works alongside less canonical texts and media, as well as detailed case studies of new material from rich but rarely-used local, municipal and performance archives. It provides an opportunity to critically reflect on links and differences between the past and present, England and Scotland, the local and the global. Adam Hansen is Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University. Cover image: (c) Adam Hansen Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-3592-5 Barcode<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Adam Hansen is Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University. He is the author of Shakespeare and Popular Music (Continuum, 2010) and co-editor of several collections, including Shakespearean Echoes, with Kevin J. Wetmore, eds. (Palgrave, 2015) and The White Devil: A Critical Reader, with Paul Frazer, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2016). He is on the editorial board of This Rough Magic, and Reviews Editor for English: The Journal of the English Association.<p>
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