Shakespeare and Historical Formalism

Abstract

Contents: Introduction, Stephen Cohen. Part 1 Historicizing Form: The materiality of Shakespearean form, Douglas Bruster Shakespeare, geography, and the work of genre on the early modern stage, Jean E. Howard 'I would I were at home': representations of dwelling places and havens in Cymbeline, Heather Dubrow Storm versus story: form and affective power in Shakespeare's romances, Christopher Cobb. Part 2 Re-Forming History: Crossing from scaffold to stage: execution processions and generic conventions in The Comedy of Errors and Measure for Measure, Marissa Greenberg Partial views: literary allusion, teleological form, and contingent readings in Hamlet, Nicholas Moschovakis Formalism and the problem of history: sonnets, sequence, and the relativity of linear time, R.L. Kesler Teaching Shakespeare and the uses of historical formalism, Mary Janell Metzger Further reading Bibliography Index.

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