Jane Austen and William Shakespeare

TRAMA

This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on the historical, literary, critical and filmic links between the authors and their fates. Considering the implications of the popular cult of Austen and Shakespeare, the essays are interdisciplinary and comparative: ranging from Austen’s and Shakespeare’s biographies to their presence in the modern vampire saga Twilight, passing by Shakespearean echoes in Austen’s novels and the authors’ afterlives on the improv stage, in wartime cinema, modern biopics and crime fiction. The volume concludes with an account of the Exhibition “Will & Jane” at the Folger Shakespeare Library, which literally brought the two authors together in the autumn of 2016. Collectively, the essays mark and celebrate what we have called the long-standing “love affair” between William Shakespeare and Jane Austen—over 200 years and counting.

SOMMARIO

Chapter 1: Introduction: Jane and Will, the Love Story Marina Cano and Rosa García-Periago                       Part 1: History, Contexts and Criticism Chapter 2: Jane Austen as ‘Prose Shakespeare’: Early Comparisons Joanne Wilkes Chapter 3: William Shakespeare and Jane Austen: Biographical Challenges Robert Bearman Chapter 4: Shakespeare and Austen Translated Marie Nedregotten Sørbø Chapter 5: Jewels, Bonds and the Body: Material Culture in Shakespeare and Austen Barbara Benedict   Part 2: Intertextual Connections Chapter 6: Is it ‘a marriage of true minds’? Balanced Reading in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Lynda Hall Chapter 7: ‘As sure as I have a thought or a soul’: The Protestant Heroine in Shakespeare and Austen Claire McEachern Chapter 8: Tyrants, Lovers, and Comedy in the Green Worlds of Mansfield Park and A Midsummer Night’s Dream Inger S. B. Brodey Chapter 9: Forbidden Familial Relations: Echoes of Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII and Hamlet in Austen’s Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility Glenda Hudson   Part 3: Theatre, Film and Performance Chapter 10: Shylock’s turquoise ring: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park and the Exquisite Acting of Edmund Kean Judith Page Chapter 11: Austen and Shakespeare: Improvised Drama Marina Cano Chapter 12: Shakespeare, Austen and Propaganda in World War II Rosa García-Periago Chapter 13: Screening Will and Jane: Sexuality and the Gendered Author in Shakespeare and Austen Biopics Lisa Starks   Part 4: Popular Culture Chapter 14: Austen and Shakespeare, Detectives Lisa Hopkins Chapter 15: In the Pursuit of Love: Twilight, Jane and Will Heta Pyrhönen Chapter 16: Curating Will & Jane Janine Barchas and Kristina Straub   Chapter 17: Afterword Mark Thornton Burnett

AUTORE

Marina Cano is Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is the author of Jane Austen and Performance (Palgrave, 2017). Her research interests include women’s writing, the long nineteenth-century, performance and gender theory. Rosa García-Periago is Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain. She is currently on leave as Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast with a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship awarded by the EU. Her research interests include Jane Austen, Shakespeare and Bollywood and adaptation in Indian Cinema. 

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783030256913
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm Ø 572 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XXII, 415 p. 41 illus.
• Pagine Arabe: 415
• Pagine Romane: xxii