Shakespeare in the North: Place, Politics and Performance in England and Scotland

Adam Hansen

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

Shakespeare in the North

Place, Politics and Performance in England and Scotland

Adam Hansen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474435949

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About this book

Presents fresh perspectives on Shakespeare’s representations of and in the ‘North’, past and present

Presents a wide range of emerging and established scholars working across the North of England, and across the English-Scottish border
Looks backwards and forwards, offering a survey of historical change, with chapters on Shakespeare and Northernness in the early modern period, as well as on later appropriations of his work in the ‘North’
Attunes to Shakespeare’s role in live political and theoretical debates about national sovereignty and identities, and regional communities and cultures
Situates Shakespeare’s works alongside less canonical texts and diverse media
Offers detailed case studies of new material, with primary sources drawn from rich but rarely-used local, municipal and performance archives
Provides an opportunity to critically reflect on links and differences between past and present, England and Scotland, the local and the global

This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays. Considering how Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood the ‘North’, it brings together diverse voices to define what the ‘North’ meant and means in relation to Shakespeare. The book also situates Shakespeare’s works alongside less canonical texts and media, as well as detailed case studies of new material from rich but rarely-used local, municipal and performance archives. It provides an opportunity to critically reflect on links and differences between the past and present, England and Scotland, the local and the global.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Adam Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Shakespeare and the Early Modern North
1 Shakespeare’s Northern Blood: Transfusing Gorboduc into Macbeth and Cymbeline Paul Frazer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
2 ‘Here are strangers near at hand’: Anglo-Scottish Border Crossings Pre- and Post-Union Steven Veerapen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
3 Shakespeare, King James and the Northern Yorkists Richard Stacey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4 North by Northwest: Shakespeare’s Shifting Frontier Lisa Hopkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
II Performing Shakespeare in the North
5 The People’s Shakespeare: Place, Politics and Performance in a Northern Amateur Theatre Adam Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
6 Only Northerners Need Apply? Northern Broadsides and No-nonsense Shakespeare Caroline Heaton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
7 Shakespeare and Blackpool: The RSC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016): A Play for the Nation? Janice Wardle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
8 William the Conqueror: The Only Shakescene in a Country Richard Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
III Appropriating Shakespeare in the North
9 ‘What is Shakespeare to Manchester’? Shakespearean Engagement in the North at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Monika Smialkowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
10 A Road by Any Other Name: Heaton History Group, a North East Suburb and Shakespeare Chris Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
11 Lancastrian Shakespeares: Hamlet and King Lear in North West England (2005–2014) Liz Oakley-Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
12 Shakespeare’s Cheek: Macbeth, Dunsinane and the Jacobean Condition James Loxley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Postscript: News from the North Willy Maley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 1 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474435949