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“Some Enchanted Trifle”: Shakespeare and Popular Culture in the Community College
Given that many community colleges offer few, if any, literature courses, because they require rhetoric courses instead, with remedial corequisites...
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Introduction
This chapter surveys the different types of Restoration Comedy staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Demonstrating the instability of the term...
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The Majesty of Kingship: Spectacular and Sacred Sovereign Power
To analyse office in Lear, I begin with the most spectacular: kingship. Lear’s initial entrance, speech acts, and exclusions display his sovereign...
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‘And Is This Death?’: ‘Seeing’ the Unseen, and Visionary Experimentation (1816–20)
This chapter provides close readings of Laon and Cythna (1817), ‘Ozymandias’ (1818), ‘Ode to the West Wind’ (1819), ‘The Sensitive-Plant’ (1820) and...
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‘Good to Think [With]’: Spenser’s Animals Against Materiality
This essay is concerned with Spenser’s animal figures—in The Faerie Queene and Amoretti 67—and the kinds of thinking they afford, with attention to...
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The Politics of Hunting: An Aristotelian Reading of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti 67
This chapter rereads Sonnet 67 of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti alongside the conflation of hunting and war in Aristotle’s Politics, and with reference...
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Errour’s Repercussions: Dragons, Race, and Animality in The Faerie Queene
This chapter argues that Spenser’s conceptualisation of the human is formed through both animality and race. It focuses on Redcrosse’s major...
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Did Edmund Dream of Shorthaired Sheep?
This chapter analyses Spenser’s representation of sheep and sheep farming to ask whether his work demonstrates a sympathetic understanding of animals...
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Spenser’s Parenthetical Butterflies
Centring on Spenser’s literary treatment of the butterfly in ‘Muiopotmos’ (1591), this chapter considers the valences of the parenthetical in order...
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Coursers and Courses in The Faerie Queene
This chapter is an exploration of horses in The Faerie Queene as coursers, animals which form various kinds of course as they journey across...
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Shakespeare’s Disabled, Disabled Shakespeare: A Renaissance Reading of Shakespeare and Disability in Henry VI Part Two and Three and Richard III
This chapter will explore a collection of Shakespeare’s plays that feature the character of Richard/Gloucester through the lens of a modern-day...
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The History of Shakespeare in Prison
This chapter references some of the major applied theatre programmes (predominantly in the UK and the United States), which have shaped the field and...
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Spenser’s Wings
The many wings of The Faerie Queene belong to real and imaginary creatures in the fictional world, and also arise in similes and metaphors. They can...
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Shakespeare as the Ultimate Form of Cultural Success, Individual Healing, and Personal Development
This chapter considers to what extent Shakespeare has become the embodiment of literary tradition and a sign of the ‘ultimate form of literary...
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Rome and Carthage: Figuring the Anglo-Dutch Wars
Facing each other across a contested sea, England and the Dutch Republic fought three wars at mid-century, just as Rome and Carthage fought the three...
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ESC: A Case Study
This chapter aims to look specifically at ESC Film’s use of Shakespeare’s work within their own penal programme and how this programme captures some...
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Blue Apple Theatre Company: A Case Study
This chapter aims to look specifically at the Blue Apple Theatre Company’s (Blue Apple) use of Shakespeare’s work within their programme and how this...
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The History of Disability Theatre
This chapter presents the history of Disability theatre and the progress made in reflecting upon Disability on the stage. Disabled theatre is ‘a...
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The History of Shakespeare and Therapy
This chapter considers specific projects and/or performances that use Shakespeare’s plays in therapeutic spaces. The examples demonstrate the reach...
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The History of Theatre and Therapy
This chapter explores the history of theatre and its interactions with therapy and therapeutic outcomes for a range of different participants in a...