SHAKESPEARE AFTER 9/11: How a Social Trauma Reshapes Interpretation
| Author: | Biberman, Matthew | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Pages: | 328 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-3730-4 978-0-7734-3730-2 | |
| Price: | $219.95 + shipping | |
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This work assembles a composite picture of Shakespeare’s afterlives in media and cultural imagination. Each essay in this collection provides new insight about how our understanding of Shakespeare has changed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Reviews
“…a must-read for Shakespeareans and, indeed, anyone interested in the long history of religious violence in the modern age. This volume’s many points of entry into the legacies of
9/11 should provoke further conversations about the class of politics and theology on early modern and contemporary world stages.”
-Prof. Graham Hammill
SUNY at Buffalo
9/11 should provoke further conversations about the class of politics and theology on early modern and contemporary world stages.”
-Prof. Graham Hammill
SUNY at Buffalo
Table of Contents
Introduction:
1. Shakespeare After 9/11
Matthew Biberman
Prose Poem:
2. "This Thing of Darkness"
Tom Sleigh
Essays:
3. Shakespeare and Terror
Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey
4. Extraordinary Renditions: Toward an Agency of Place
Linda Charnes
5. "Wicked Meaning in a Lawful Deed": Shakespeare on the Obscenity of Power
Slavoj Zizek
6. Explosive Signifiers: Sulayman Al-Bassam's Post 9/11 Odyssey
Margaret Litvin
Critical Forum:
7. Shakespeare and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: A Presentist Perspective
Hugh Grady
8. Harrying After VV
Scott Newstok and Harry Berger Jr.
9. Shakespeare After 5/11
Jonathan Gil Harris
10. Whither Brutus?: Rethinking Julius Caesar in the New American
Century
Scott Maisano 11. "Senseless Ilium"
Christopher Pye
12. Shakespeare—for the Long Haul
Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
13. "And Here's Thy Hand": Titus Andronicus in a Time of Terror
James Kuzner
14. Contemplating Suicide: Shakespeare After the September 11 Attacks
Bryan Reynolds
15. Shakespeare's Bare (Ruined) Lives
Richard Burt
Poem:
16. The Great Awakening
Robert Polito
Theatre Forum: 17. "All Are Punished": Staging Romeo and Juliet in a post 9/11 World
Stephen M. Davis
18. On 9/11 as a Concept for Shakespeare Productions
Cynthia White
19. Thoughts on Shakespeare After 9/11
Terry Burgler
20. Beyond Humanism and Postmodernism: A Hamlet for the 21st
Century
Walter A. Davis
21. "This Rough Magic"
Sidney Berger
Poem:
22. Guernica Unveiled
Graham Holderness
Afterword:
23. "Preposterous Violence": Shakespeare after 9/11,9/11 after
Shakespeare
Ben Saunders
Notes on Contributors
1. Shakespeare After 9/11
Matthew Biberman
Prose Poem:
2. "This Thing of Darkness"
Tom Sleigh
Essays:
3. Shakespeare and Terror
Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey
4. Extraordinary Renditions: Toward an Agency of Place
Linda Charnes
5. "Wicked Meaning in a Lawful Deed": Shakespeare on the Obscenity of Power
Slavoj Zizek
6. Explosive Signifiers: Sulayman Al-Bassam's Post 9/11 Odyssey
Margaret Litvin
Critical Forum:
7. Shakespeare and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: A Presentist Perspective
Hugh Grady
8. Harrying After VV
Scott Newstok and Harry Berger Jr.
9. Shakespeare After 5/11
Jonathan Gil Harris
10. Whither Brutus?: Rethinking Julius Caesar in the New American
Century
Scott Maisano 11. "Senseless Ilium"
Christopher Pye
12. Shakespeare—for the Long Haul
Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
13. "And Here's Thy Hand": Titus Andronicus in a Time of Terror
James Kuzner
14. Contemplating Suicide: Shakespeare After the September 11 Attacks
Bryan Reynolds
15. Shakespeare's Bare (Ruined) Lives
Richard Burt
Poem:
16. The Great Awakening
Robert Polito
Theatre Forum: 17. "All Are Punished": Staging Romeo and Juliet in a post 9/11 World
Stephen M. Davis
18. On 9/11 as a Concept for Shakespeare Productions
Cynthia White
19. Thoughts on Shakespeare After 9/11
Terry Burgler
20. Beyond Humanism and Postmodernism: A Hamlet for the 21st
Century
Walter A. Davis
21. "This Rough Magic"
Sidney Berger
Poem:
22. Guernica Unveiled
Graham Holderness
Afterword:
23. "Preposterous Violence": Shakespeare after 9/11,9/11 after
Shakespeare
Ben Saunders
Notes on Contributors