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1. - Critical Studies

from The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2023

By
Ezra Horbury
Edited by
Emma Smith
Emma Smith
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

This year, Shakespeare criticism is full of bodies: bodies that desire and are desired, that live and die, that are performed and interpreted, that are actors, spectators, and readers too. Although not all these works necessarily situate themselves in body studies, our interactions with bodies and our own embodied interactions with the world and texts are embedded throughout this year of critical studies. To what extent this can be attributed to the dominance of post- (and still current) pandemic thinking remains to be seen, but bodies have nonetheless proved central to much of 2022’s Shakespeare criticism.

Despite this interest with embodiment and identity, it is surprising to see that race has featured so little in this year’s selection of critical studies.

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Shakespeare Survey 76
Digital and Virtual Shakespeare
 , pp. 222 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Works Reviewed

Brown, Pamela Allen, The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata (Oxford, 2021)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Engel, William E., and Williams, Grant, eds., The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet among the Tombs (London, 2022)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Friedlander, Ari, Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature (Oxford, 2022)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Johnson, Toria, Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare (Woodbridge, 2022)Google Scholar
McCarthy, Harry, Boy Actors in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2022)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MacConochie, Alex, Staging Touch in Shakespeare’s England (Oxford, 2022)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rodrigues, Don, Shakespeare’s Queer Analytics: Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in Love’s Martyr, Arden Shakespeare (London, 2022)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Steggle, Matthew, Speed and Flight in Shakespeare (London, 2022)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams, Katherine Schaap, Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater (Ithaca, 2021)Google Scholar

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  • Critical Studies
  • Edited by Emma Smith, University of Oxford
  • Book: Shakespeare Survey 76
  • Online publication: 17 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009392761.021
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  • Critical Studies
  • Edited by Emma Smith, University of Oxford
  • Book: Shakespeare Survey 76
  • Online publication: 17 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009392761.021
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  • Critical Studies
  • Edited by Emma Smith, University of Oxford
  • Book: Shakespeare Survey 76
  • Online publication: 17 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009392761.021
Available formats
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