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Shakespeare and the supernatural

✍ Scribed by Victoria Bladen; Yan Brailowsky (editors)

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Leaves
298
Series
Manchester University Press
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Shakespeare and the supernatural
Part I: Embodying the supernatural
Shakespeare’s political spectres
‘Rudely stamped’: supernatural generation and the limits of power in Shakespeare’s Richard III
Digital puppetry and the supernatural: double Ariel in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest (2017)
Part II: Haunted spaces
Demons and puns: revisiting the ‘cellarage scene’ in Hamlet
Performing the Shakespearean supernatural in Avignon: a challenge to the Festival
Part III: Supernatural utterance and haunted texts
Prophecy and the supernatural: Shakespeare’s challenges to performativity
Puck, Philostrate and the locus of A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s topical allegory
‘Strange intelligence’: transformations of witchcraft in Macbeth discourse
Part IV: Magic, music and gender
Music and magic in The Tempest: Ariel’s alchemical songs
From Prospero to Prospera: transforming gender and magic on stage and screen
Part V: Contemporary transformations
‘I’ll put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes’: representing the supernatural in film adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Ophelia and her magical daughters: the afterlives of Ophelia in Japanese pop culture
Index

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