Speed and flight in Shakespeare / Matthew Steggle.
Steggle, Matthew, author.
2022
PR3069.S63 S74 2022
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Title Speed and flight in Shakespeare / Matthew Steggle.
Author Steggle, Matthew, author.
ISBN 9783030936570 (electronic bk.)
3030936570 (electronic bk.)
9783030936563
3030936562
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93657-0
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-93657-0 doi
Call Number PR3069.S63 S74 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 822.3/3
Summary Shakespeare's plays are fascinated by the problems of speed and flight. They are repeatedly interested in humans, spirits, and objects that move very fast; become airborne; and in some cases even travel into space. In Speed and Flight in Shakespeare, the first study of any kind on the subject, Steggle looks at how Shakespeare's language explores ideas of speed and flight, and what theatrical resources his plays use to represent these states. Shakespeare has, this book argues, an aesthetic of speed and flight. Featuring chapters on The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Macbeth and The Tempest, this study opens up a new field around the "historical phenomenology" of early modern speed. Matthew Steggle is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK. His research interests include early modern literature and drama, with a particular focus on "historicized performance studies", and "acoustic approaches" to early modern drama. His publications include four monographs on early modern drama; editions of plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Brome; and dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters. Steggle is also Co-editor of the AHRC-funded Oxford Works of John Marston project, and of the Lost Plays Database. .
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 7, 2022).
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Acceleration in The Comedy of Errors
Chapter 3: Taking Flight in Romeo and Juliet
Chapter 4: The Speed Demons of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Chapter 5: The Action of the Tiger: Richard III and Henry V
Chapter 6: Macbeth: Life in Fast Forward
Chapter 7: Free Flight:The Tempest
Chapter 8: Conclusion. .

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