Description
Book Synopsis As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife. The essays in this volume consider the various manifestations of the physical and metaphorical town on the Avon, across time, genre and place, from America to New Zealand, from children’s literature to wartime commemorations. We meet many Stratfords in this collection, real and imaginary, and the interplay between the two generates new visions of the place.
Table of Contents Preface
Katherine Scheil
Chapter 1. Helen Faucit and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1879
Christy Desmet
Chapter 2. Secret Stratford: Shakespeare’s Hometown in Recent Young Adult Fiction
Susanne Greenhalgh
Chapter 3. Stratfordian Perambulations; or, Walking with Shakespeare
Julie Sanders
Chapter 4. Shakespeare’s Church and the Pilgrim Fathers: Commemorating Plymouth Rock in Stratford
Clara Calvo
Chapter 5. Importing Stratford
Katherine Scheil
Afterword: ‘Dear Shakespeare-land’: Investing in Stratford
Nicola J. Watson
