Shakespeare and Authority: Citations, Conceptions and Constructions Katie Halsey

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• ISBN 10: 113757853X
• ISBN 13: 9781137578532
• Author: Katie Halsey, Angus Vine

This book examines conceptions of authority for and in Shakespeare, and the construction of Shakespeare as literary and cultural authority. The first section, Defining and Redefining Authority, begins by re-defining the concept of Shakespeare’s sources, suggesting that ‘authorities’ and ‘resources’ are more appropriate terms. Building on this conceptual framework, the remainder of this section explores linguistic and discursive authority more broadly. The second section, Shakespearean Authority, considers the construction, performance and questioning of authority in Shakespeare’s plays. Essays here range from examinations of monarchical authority to discussions of household authority, literary authority and linguistic ownership. The final part, Shakespeare as Authority, then traces the increasing establishment of Shakespeare as an authority from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century in a series of essays that explore Shakespearean authority for editors, actors, critics, authors, readers and audiences. The volume concludes with two essays that reassess Shakespeare as an authority for visual culture – in the cinema and in contemporary art.

Table contents:

1. ‘Dressed in a Little Brief Authority’: Authority Before, During, and After Shakespeare’s Plays

Part I. Defining and Redefining Authority

2. Shakespeare’s Authorities

3. Inside the Elephant’s Graveyard: Revising Geoffrey Bullough’s Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare

4. Author and Authority in the OED: Nashe v. Shakespeare

5. ‘The King’s English’ ‘Our English’?: Shakespeare and Linguistic Ownership

6. Foundations of Sovereign Authority: The Example of Shakespearean Political Drama

Part II. Shakespearean Authority

7. ‘A Trim Reckoning’: Accountability and Authority in 1 and 2 Henry IV

8. The King’s Ring: A Matter of Trust

9. ‘Constant in any Undertaking’: Writing the Lipsian State in Measure for Measure

10. Duty and Authority: Malvolio, Stewardship and Montague’s Household Book

11. Poetic Authority in Julius Caesar: The Triumph of the Poet-Playwright-Actor

Part III. Shakespeare as Authority

12. Authority of the Actor in the Eighteenth Century

13. Shakespeare, Rule-Breaking and Artistic Genius: The Case of Sir John Soane

14. Whose Gothic Bard? Charles Robert Maturin and Contestations of Shakespearean Authority in British/Irish Romantic Culture

15. Authority, Instrumental Reason and the Fault Lines of Modern Civilization in Peter Brook’s Cinematic Rendering of Shakespeare’s King Lear

16. Will Power: Visualising Shakespeare’s Authority in Contemporary Culture

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