Jane Austen and William Shakespeare A Love Affair in Literature, Film and Performance /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cano, Marina (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), García-Periago, Rosa (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature, Modern.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Comparative literature.; British literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Shakespeare.; Comparative Literature.; British and Irish Literature.

This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on the historical, literary, critical and filmic links between the authors and their fates. Considering the implications of the popular cult o...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Jane and Will, the Love Story
• Part I History, Contexts and Criticism
• 2. Jane Austen as 'Prose Shakespeare': Early Comparisons
• 3. William Shakespeare and Jane Austen: Biographical Challenges,- 4. Austen and Shakespeare Translated
• 5. Jewels, Bonds and the Body: Material Culture in Shakespeare and Austen
• Part II Intertextual Connections
• 6. Is it 'a marriage of true minds'? Balanced Reading in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
• 7. 'As sure as I have a thought or a soul': The Protestant Heroine in Shakespeare and Austen
• 8. Tyrants, Lovers, and Comedy in the Green Worlds of Mansfield Park and A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 9. Forbidden Familial Relations: Echoes of Shakespeare's King Henry VIII and Hamlet in Austen's Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility
• Part III Theatre, Film and Performance
• 10. Shylock's Turquoise Ring: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park and the 'Exquisite Acting' of Edmund Kean
• 11. Austen and Shakespeare: Improvised Drama
• 12. Shakespeare, Austen and Propaganda in World War II
• 13. Screening Will and Jane: Sexuality and the Gendered Author in Shakespeare and Austen Biopics
• 14. Austen and Shakespeare, Detectives
• 15. The Twilight Saga as an Adaptation of Shakespeare and Austen
• 16. Curating Will & Jane
• 17. Afterword.