{"product_id":"shakespeare-sense-9781350333260","title":"Shakespeare  Sense","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare  Sense\u003c\/i\u003e explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores the senses in his literary craft, his fictional worlds, and his stagecraft.  15 substantial new essays by leading Shakespeareans working in sensory studies and related disciplines interrogate every aspect of Shakespeare and sense, from the place of hearing, smell, sight, touch, and taste in early modern life, literature, and performance culture, through to the significance of sensation in 21st century engagements with Shakespeare on stage, screen and page.  The volume explores and develops current methods for studying Shakespeare and sensation, reflecting upon the opportunities and challenges created by this emergent and influential area of scholarly enquiry. Many chapters develop fresh readings of particular plays and poems, from \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night''s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKing \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[A] stimulating collection of essays … this volume not only consolidates the centrality of sensory scholarship, but also succeeds in offering new inroads, methodologies and concepts … Readers will find themselves returning to its stimulating and careful treatment of sensory studies. * English Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  \u003ci\u003ePart I – Theorising Sensation\u003c\/i\u003e  1. Framing Shakespeare's Senses; Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California, USA)  2. Admiring the Nothing of It: Shakespeare and the Senseless; Steven Connor (Peterhouse, Cambridge, UK)  3. The Classical Tradition; Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA)  \u003ci\u003ePart II – The Early Modern Sensorium\u003c\/i\u003e  4. ‘Sweet Above Compare’? Disputing about Taste in \u003ci\u003eVenus and Adonis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove’s Labour’s Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Cressida\u003c\/i\u003e; Elizabeth L. Swann (Durham University, UK)  5. \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e's Visual Stagecraft and Early Modern Cultures of Sight; Simon Smith (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK)  6. The Smell of a King: Olfaction in \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e; Holly Dugan (The George Washington University, USA)  7. ‘Amorous Pinches’: Keeping (In)tact in Antony and Cleopatra; Jennifer Edwards (Shakespeare's Globe, UK) 8. Hearing at the Surface in \u003ci\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e; Katherine Hunt (The Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK)   \u003ci\u003ePart III – Entangled Senses\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Sense, Reason, and the Animal-Human Boundary in\u003ci\u003e A Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e; Natalie K. Eschenbaum (University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, USA)  10. Sense and Community: \u003ci\u003eTwelfth Night\u003c\/i\u003e and early modern playgoing; Jackie Watson (Oxford, UK)  11. Simular Proof and Senseless Feeling: Synaesthetic Overload in \u003ci\u003eCymbeline\u003c\/i\u003e; Darryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)  12. Pinching Caliban: Race, Husbandry, and the Working Body in \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e; Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University – Newark, USA)  \u003ci\u003ePart IV – Sensing Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e  13. Shakespeare and the Seven Senses: Scenes from the Twenty-First-Century Stage; Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK)  14. Parted Eyes and Generation Gaps in Twenty-First-Century Perceptions of Screen Shakespeare; Diana E. Henderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)  15. The Senses and Material Texts; Adam Smyth (Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK) Further Reading Index\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407536922967,"sku":"9781350333260","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350333260.jpg?v=1730499705","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeare-sense-9781350333260","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}