How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405135271 ISBN 13: 9781405135276

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical positions.

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• A helpful guidebook for anyone trying to think of a new approach to Shakespeare
  
• Twelve experts take new critical positions in their field of study using the writings and analysis of Shakespeare, to show how writers (students and academics) find topics and develop their ideas
  
• Features autobiographical prefaces that explain how the experts chose their topics and why the editor commissioned these particular essays, topics, and authors
  
• Argues that literary research is a reaction to experiences, thoughts or feelings
  
• Essays are arranged in small dialogues of two or three, forming a debate
  
• Teaches students to respond individually to cultural positions

About this title

From the Back Cover:

How do writers find topics and develop their ideas?

How To Do Things with Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays shows us how literary research is a reaction to experiences, thoughts, or feelings and illuminates the thought process that leads a reader to take a critical stance.

Twelve experts take new critical positions in their field of study using the writings and analysis of Shakespeare. How do The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Winter’s Tale frame discussions on animal ethics? What is the role of history as a character in Henry VIII and Love’s Labour’s Lost? Each contributor shares insights into what ignited his or her curiosity and led to the resulting essay on each topic. Illuminating the thought processes of these particular writers leads to larger questions: What problems, omissions, or dissatisfactions lead us to our critical positions? What is the internal dialogue that precedes the writing process? Research often moves in unanticipated directions, so here readers are invited to judge first-hand how closely each final essay relates to (and how far it develops from!) the initial questions that inspired it.

About the Author:

Laurie Maguire is a Fellow of Magdalen College and Reader in English at Oxford University. Her books include Shakespearean Suspect Texts (1996), Studying Shakespeare (2004), Where There’s a Will There’s a Way (2006), and Shakespeare’s Names (2007). Maguire has published widely on Renaissance drama, textual problems, performance, and women's studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1405135271
• ISBN 13: 9781405135276
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Maguire Laurie