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1. - Critical Studies

from The Year’s Contributions to Shakespeare Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2020

Emma Smith
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University of Oxford
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After nearly ten years as critical studies reviewer for Shakespeare Survey, I am looking fondly on my over-burdened and groaning table of books for the last time. To kick off my co-mixture of joy and lamentation, I begin with Genevieve Love’s Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability. Here Love approaches the figure of disability, less as an embodiment of physical capacity than as a trope, a rhetorical figure, through which the theatre comes to express its primary function as both prosthesis and representation. The figure of her title is not then the body of the actor or character, the human subject or experience of being dis-abled, but the language through which the theatre experiences itself as a representation of something else.

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Shakespeare Survey 73
Shakespeare and the City
, pp. 252 - 265
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Works Reviewed

Akhimie, Patricia, and Andrea, Bernadette, eds., Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama and the Wider World (Lincoln and London, 2019)Google Scholar
Arshad, Yasmin, Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England (London, 2019)Google Scholar
Bergeron, David, Shakespeare’s London 1613 (Manchester, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chalk, Darryl, and Floyd-Wilson, Mary, eds., Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage (Basingstoke, 2019)Google Scholar
Garrison, John S., Shakespeare and the Afterlife (Oxford, 2019)Google Scholar
Jowitt, Claire, and McInnis, David, Travel and Drama in Early Modern England: The Journeying Play (Cambridge, 2019)Google Scholar
Langley, Eric, Shakespeare’s Contagious Sympathies (Oxford, 2019)Google Scholar
Love, Genevieve, Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability (London, 2019)Google Scholar
Mottram, Stewart, Ruin and Reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare and Marvell (Oxford, 2019)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Publicover, Laurence, Dramatic Geography, Romance, Intertheatricality, and Cultural Encounter in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama (Oxford, 2017)Google Scholar
Singh, Jyotsna, Shakespeare and Post Colonial Theory (London, 2019)Google Scholar
Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret, Shakespeare’s Englishes: Against Englishness (Cambridge, 2020)Google Scholar
Whipday, Emma, Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home (Cambridge, 2019)CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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