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 Austens and Shakespeares biographies to their presence in the modern vampire saga Twilight, passing by Shakespearean echoes in Austens 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 Austenover 200 years and counting.
1. Introduction: Jane and Will, the Love Story.- Part I History, Contexts and Criticism.- 2. Jane Austen as Prose Shakespeare: Early Comparisons.- 3. William Shakespeare and Jane Austen: Biographical Challenges,- 4. Austen and Shakespeare Translated.- 5. Jewels, Bonds and the Body: Material Culture in Shakespeare and Austen.- Part II Intertextual Connections.- 6. Is it a marriage of true minds? Balanced Reading in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.- 7. As sure as I have a thought or a soul: The Protestant Heroine in Shakespeare and Austen.- 8. Tyrants, Lovers, and Comedy in the Green Worlds of Mansfield Park and A Midsummer Nights Dream.- 9. Forbidden Familial Relations: Echoes of Shakespeares King Henry VIII and Hamlet in AustensMansfield Park and Sense and SensibilÓ%
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