Thomas Mann and Shakespeare Something Rich and Strange [Paperback]

Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries,Thomas Mann and Shakespeareis the first book-length study to explore the always fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, connections between Shakespeare and Mann. It establishes startling resonances between the central works of these two authors, pairing, for instance,Der ZauberbergwithThe Tempest,Der Tod in VenedigwithThe Merchant of Venice,Tonio Kr?gerwithOthelloandLove's Labour's LostwithDoktor Faustus. Showing how the conjunction of Shakespeare and Mann affords new, alternative perspectives on fundamental issues such as modernity, irony, art, desire, authorship and religion,Thomas Mann and Shakespearechallenges the increasingly walled-in specialism of literary topics and periodization and demonstrates the scope for new ways of reading in literary studies.

Tobias D?ringis Chair of English Literature, LMU M?nchen, Germany, and past President of the German Shakespeare Society. His latest books are (ed. with Virginia Mason Vaughan)Criticaland Cultural Transformations: Shakespeare'sThe Tempest 1611 to thePresentand (ed. with Mark Stein)Edward Said's Translocations: Essaysin Secular Criticism.

Ewan Fernieis Chair, Professor and Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. His latest book,TheDemonic: Literature and Experience, gives considerable attention to Shakespeare and Mann.

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Something Rich and Strange (with A Note on
Mann's Shakespeare, by Tobias D?ring, LMU M?nchen, Germany)
Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham, UK)

1 The Violence of Desire: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Mann
Jonathan Dollimore (University of York, UK)

2 Laughter in the Throat of Death: Thomas Mann's
ShakespeareanSprachkrise
Richard WilsolC-