Shakespeare's Romances (New Casebooks (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)).)

269 Pages·2003·0.73 MB·English

by  Alison Thorne

New Casebooks
Shakespeare’s Romances
Edited by Alison Thorne
New Casebooks
POETRY
WILLIAM BLAKE Edited by David Punter
CHAUCER Edited by Valerie Allen and Aries Axiotis
COLERIDGE, KEATS AND SHELLEY Edited by Peter J. Kitson
JOHN DONNE Edited by Andrew Mousley
SEAMUS HEANEY Edited by Michael Allen
PHILIP LARKIN Edited by Stephen Regan
DYLAN THOMAS Edited by John Goodby and Chris Wigginton
VICTORIAN WOMEN POETS Edited by Joseph Bristow
WORDSWORTH Edited by John Williams
PARADISE LOST Edited by William Zunder
NOVELS AND PROSE
AUSTEN:EmmaEdited by David Monaghan
AUSTEN:Mansfield Park andPersuasionEdited by Judy Simons
AUSTEN:Sense and Sensibility andPride and PrejudiceEdited by Robert Clark
CHARLOTTE BRONTE¨:Jane EyreEdited by Heather Glen
CHARLOTTE BRONTE¨:VilletteEdited by Pauline Nestor
EMILY BRONTE¨:Wuthering HeightsEdited by Patsy Stoneman
ANGELA CARTEREdited by Alison Easton
WILKIE COLLINSEdited by Lyn Pykett
JOSEPH CONRADEdited by Elaine Jordan
DICKENS:Bleak HouseEdited by Jeremy Tambling
DICKENS:David Copperfield andHard TimesEdited by John Peck
DICKENS:Great ExpectationsEdited by Roger Sell
ELIOT:The Mill on the Floss and Silas MarnerEdited by Nahem Yousaf and
Andrew Maunder
ELIOT:MiddlemarchEdited by John Peck
E.M. FORSTEREdited by Jeremy Tambling
HARDY:Jude the ObscureEdited by Penny Boumelha
HARDY:The Mayor of CasterbridgeEdited by Julian Wolfreys
HARDY:Tess of the D’UrbervillesEdited by Peter Widdowson
JAMES:Turn of the Screw andWhat Maisie KnewEdited by Neil Cornwell and
Maggie Malone
LAWRENCE:Sons and LoversEdited by Rick Rylance
TONI MORRISONEdited by Linden Peach
GEORGE ORWELLEdited by Byran Loughrey
SHELLEY:FrankensteinEdited by Fred Botting
STOKER:DraculaEdited by Glennis Byron
WOOLF:Mrs DallowayandTo the LighthouseEdited by Su Reid
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DRAMA
BECKETT: Waiting for Godot and Endgame Edited by Steven Connor
APHRA BEHN Edited by Janet Todd
REVENGE TRAGEDY Edited by Stevie Simkin
SHAKESPEARE: Antony and Cleopatra Edited by John Drakakis
SHAKESPEARE: HamletEdited by Martin Coyle
SHAKESPEARE: Julius CaesarEdited by Richard Wilson
SHAKESPEARE: King Lear Edited by Kiernan Ryan
SHAKESPEARE: MacbethEdited by Alan Sinfield
SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice Edited by Martin Coyle
SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s DreamEdited by Richard Dutton
SHAKESPEARE: Much Ado About Nothing andThe Taming of the Shrew
Edited by Marion Wynne-Davies
SHAKESPEARE: Romeo and Juliet Edited by R. S. White
SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest Edited by R. S. White
SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night Edited by R. S. White
SHAKESPEARE ON FILM Edited by Robert Shaughnessy
SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE Edited by Robert Shaughnessy
SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORY PLAYS Edited by Graham Holderness
SHAKESPEARE’S ROMANCES Edited by Alison Thorne
SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES Edited by Susan Zimmerman
JOHN WEBSTER: The Duchess of Malfi Edited by Dympna Callaghan
GENERAL THEMES
FEMINIST THEATRE AND THEORY Edited by Helene Keyssar
POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES Edited by Michael Parker and Roger Starkey
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SHAKESPEARE’S
ROMANCES
EDITED BY ALISON THORNE
Introduction, selection and editorial matter
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
General Editors’ Preface xi
Introduction: Alison Thorne 1
1. Shakespearean Comedy and Romance: the Utopian
Imagination
Kiernan Ryan 27
2. Periclesand the Pox
Margaret Healy 53
3. Liminal Geography: Periclesand the Politics of Place
Constance C. Relihan 71
4. Cymbeline: the Rescue of the King
Ruth Nevo 91
5. The Masculine Romance of Roman Britain: Cymbeline
and Early Modern English Nationalism
Jodi Mikalachki 117
6. Masculine Authority and the Maternal Body in
The Winter’s Tale
Janet Adelman 145
7. The Winter’s Tale and the Religious Politics of Europe
James Ellison 171
8. Caliban versus Miranda: Race and Gender Conflicts in
Postcolonial Rewritings of The Tempest
Jyotsna G. Singh 205
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viii CONTENTS
9. ‘The Duke of Milan / and his Brave Son’: Old Histories
and New in The Tempest
David Scott Kastan 226
Further Reading 245
Notes on Contributors 250
Index 252
Acknowledgements
Thanks to John Drakakis, Helen Hackett, Robert Maslen and
Jennifer Richards for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of
the introduction, to James Knowles for sharing his knowledge of
Jacobean stage practices with me, and, above all, to Martin Coyle
whose unfailing patience and encouragement ensured the completion
of this volume.
The editor and publisher wish to thank the following for permission
to use copyright material:
Janet Adelman, for material from Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of
Maternal Origin in Shakespeare’s Plays, ‘Hamlet’ to ‘The Tempest’
by Janet Adelman (1992), pp. 193–235, by permission of
Routledge, Inc, part of the Taylor & Francis Group; James Ellison,
for ‘The Winter’s Tale and the Religious Politics of Europe’, previ-
ously unpublished, by permission of the author; Margaret Healy,
for ‘Pericles and the Pox’ from Jennifer Richards and James
Knowles (eds), Shakespeare’s Late Plays: New Readings, Edinburgh
University Press (1999), pp. 92–107, by permission of the author;
David Scott Kastan, for material from Shakespeare After Theory by
David Scott Kastan (1999), pp. 183–97, by permission of
Routledge, Inc, part of the Taylor & Francis Group; Jodi
Mikalachki, for ‘The Masculine Romance of Roman Britain:
Cymbeline and Early Modern English Nationalism’, Shakespeare
Quarterly, 46:3 (1995), 301–22, by permission of the Johns
Hopkins University Press; Ruth Nevo, for material from
Shakespeare’s Other Language by Ruth Nevo, Routledge (1987),
pp. 62–94, by permission of Routledge, Inc, part of the Taylor &
Francis Group; Constance C. Relihan, for ‘Liminal Geography:
Pericles and the Politics of Place’, Philological Quarterly, 71
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