Shakespeare and the supernatural:
Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches foresee the future and disturb the present, fairies meddle with love and a magus conjures a tempest fr...
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Zusammenfassung: | Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches foresee the future and disturb the present, fairies meddle with love and a magus conjures a tempest from the elements. Although written and performed for early modern audiences, for whom the supernatural, whether sacred, demonic or folkloric, was part of the fabric of everyday life, the supernatural in Shakespeare continues to enthrall audiences and readers, and maintains its power to raise a range of questions in contemporary contexts.0This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches, generating new knowledge and presenting hitherto unexplored avenues of enquiry across the Shakespearean canon. |
Beschreibung: | xiii, 283 Seiten Illustrationen |
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adam_text | Contents List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Shakespeare and the supernatural Victoria Bladen and Yan Brailowsky I Embodying the supernatural page ix x xiv 1 29 1 Shakespeare’s political spectres ֊ Victoria Bladen 31 2 ‘Rudely stamped’: supernatural generation and the limits of power in Shakespeare’s Richard III ֊ Chelsea Phillips 50 Digital puppetry and the supernatural: double Ariel in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest (2017) ֊ Anchuli Felicia King 70 3 II Haunted spaces 4 Demons and puns: revisiting the ‘cellarage scene’ in Hamlet ֊ Pierre Kapitaniak 5 Performing the Shakespearean supernatural in Avignon: a challenge to the Festival ֊ Florence March 85 87 114
viii Contents III Supernatural utterance and haunted texts 6 Prophecy and the supernatural: Shakespeares challenges to performativity ֊ Yan Brailowsky 7 Puck, Philostrate and the locus of A Midsummer Nights Dreams topical allegory - Laurie Johnson 8 ‘Strange intelligence: transformations of witchcraft in Macbeth discourse - William C. Carroll IV Magic, music and gender 9 Music and magic in The Tempest: Ariels alchemical songs Natalie Roulon 10 From Prospero to Prospera: transforming gender and magic on stage and screen ֊ Katharine Goodland V Contemporary transformations 11 12 Index 135 137 157 173 191 193 218 243 ‘I’ll put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes’: representing the supernatural in film adaptations of Ճ Midsummer Nights Dream - Gayle Allan 245 Ophelia and her magical daughters: the afterlives of Ophelia in Japanese pop culture֊ Yukari Yoshihara 262 278
Supernatural elements constitute a significant dimension of Shakespeare’s plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue: ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches; witches foresee the future and disturb the present; and a magus conjures a tempest from the elements. This volume combines the historical contexts of the supernatural in Shakespearean drama with contemporary approaches to performance on stage, screen and in popular culture. Although written and performed for early modern audiences, for whom the supernatural was still part of the fabric of everyday life, the plays’s supernatural elements continue to enthral us and maintain their ability to raise questions of control, agency and power in contemporary contexts. Through an analysis of five key themes embodying the supernatural; haunted spaces; supernatural utterance and haunted texts; magic, music and gender; and contemporary transformations this volume provides new insights on the construction of the supernatural through language and how mystical dimensions create challenges of representation and meaning for critics and creators.
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Contents List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Shakespeare and the supernatural Victoria Bladen and Yan Brailowsky I Embodying the supernatural page ix x xiv 1 29 1 Shakespeare’s political spectres ֊ Victoria Bladen 31 2 ‘Rudely stamped’: supernatural generation and the limits of power in Shakespeare’s Richard III ֊ Chelsea Phillips 50 Digital puppetry and the supernatural: double Ariel in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest (2017) ֊ Anchuli Felicia King 70 3 II Haunted spaces 4 Demons and puns: revisiting the ‘cellarage scene’ in Hamlet ֊ Pierre Kapitaniak 5 Performing the Shakespearean supernatural in Avignon: a challenge to the Festival ֊ Florence March 85 87 114
viii Contents III Supernatural utterance and haunted texts 6 Prophecy and the supernatural: Shakespeares challenges to performativity ֊ Yan Brailowsky 7 Puck, Philostrate and the locus of A Midsummer Nights Dreams topical allegory - Laurie Johnson 8 ‘Strange intelligence: transformations of witchcraft in Macbeth discourse - William C. Carroll IV Magic, music and gender 9 Music and magic in The Tempest: Ariels alchemical songs Natalie Roulon 10 From Prospero to Prospera: transforming gender and magic on stage and screen ֊ Katharine Goodland V Contemporary transformations 11 12 Index 135 137 157 173 191 193 218 243 ‘I’ll put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes’: representing the supernatural in film adaptations of Ճ Midsummer Nights Dream - Gayle Allan 245 Ophelia and her magical daughters: the afterlives of Ophelia in Japanese pop culture֊ Yukari Yoshihara 262 278
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