How To Do Things With Shakespeare New Approaches, New Essays [Hardcover]

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• A helpful guidebook for anyone trying to think of a new approach to Shakespeare
  
• Twelve experts take new critical positions in their field of study using the writings and analysis of Shakespeare, to show how writers (students and academics) find topics and develop their ideas
  
• Features autobiographical prefaces that explain how the experts chose their topics and why the editor commissioned these particular essays, topics, and authors
  
• Argues that literary research is a reaction to experiences, thoughts or feelings
  
• Essays are arranged in small dialogues of two or three, forming a debate
  
• Teaches students to respond individually to cultural positions

Introduction: Laurie E. Maguire (Magdalen College, University of Oxford).

Part I How To Do Things with Sources.

1. French Connections: The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Montaigne and Shakespeare: Richard Scholar (Oriel College, Oxford).

2. Romancing the Greeks: Cymbeline’s Genres and Models: Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College, City University of New York).

3. How the Renaissance (Mis)Used Sources: The Art of Misquotation: Julie Maxwell (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge).

Part II How To Do Things with History.

4. Henry VIII, or All is True: Shakespeare’s “Favorite” Play: Chris R. Kyle (Syracuse University).

5. Catholicism and Conversion in Love’s Labour’s Lost: Gillian Woods (Wadl“+