Wonder in Shakespeare

ADAM MAX COHEN earned his PhD from the University of Virginia, USA, and was an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His teaching interests included Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Early Modern Cultural Studies, History of Science, and Technology. He is the author of Shakespeare and Technology: Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions and Technology and the Early Modern Self.

PART I: WONDER IN SHAKESPEARE Wonder, Amazement, and Surprise: Beginning a Stunning Story Resurrections of the Living and the Dead: Natural and Spiritual Bodies and Souls 'Die to live': Various Forms of Empathetic Wonder The Metaphorical Use of the Prodigious Birth Tradition More of a Prodigy than a Prophecy Wonder, Awe, and Admiration: Shakespeare's Cabinets of Curiosity Transalpine Wonders: Shakespeare's Marvelous Aesthetics PART II: SIX RESPONSES TO WONDER IN SHAKESPEARE Embodying Wonder; M.Tarnoff The Aesthetic Resurrection of the 'death-mark'd' lovers in Romeo and Juliet; J.Segal The 'Spectacle of Conversion,' Wonder, and Film in The Merchant of Venice; M.G.Aune God Save the King: Richard IIin Wonder-land; R.Steinberger A World of (No) Wonder, or No Wonder-Wounded Heros Here: Toward a Theory on the Vanishing Mediation of 'No Wonder' in Shakespeare's Theater; K.Keating & B.Reynolds Passing for Truth: Wonder Tales and Their Audiences in Othello; J.B.Fisher