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

ISBN: 978-1-405-13527-6

October 2007

Wiley-Blackwell

320 pages

Description
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE

HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE

“This is a companion to Shakespeare with a difference. Vive la différance!”
DAVID BEVINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

“Doing things with literature: scholarly articles are not the only way to go. Aristotle uses a lecture, Horace a letter, Sidney a mock oration. Laurie Maguire and the contributors to this book engage in a genial conversation that invites students in. Like all good conversations, this one admits first-person candor, keeps things lively by changing the subject five times, welcomes disagreements, and waits for what the reader-listener is going to do in response.”
BRUCE SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

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.
Features

  • 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