Shakespeare and Space

Ina Habermann is Professor of English at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the author of Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England (2003) and Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: J.B. Priestley and the Symbolic Form of Englishness (2010).    Michelle Witen is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research interests include Modernist incorporations of musical structure and nineteenth-century newspapers. Her monograph James Joyce’s Absolute Music is forthcoming.  

Lists of Figures, Illustrations, and Appendices.- Notes on Contributors.- List of Abbreviations.- Introduction.- PART I: SHAKESPEAREAN SPACES.- 1. Shakespeare’s Enclaves; Andreas Mahler.- 2. The Theatrical Topology of Tyranny in Richard III; Christina Wald.- 3. Thickets and Beaches: Evoking Place in the Stories of King Lear; Werner Brönnimann.- 4. ‘The Lady shall say her mind freely’: Shakespeare and the S/Pace of Blank Verse; Margaret Tudeau-Clayton.- 5. Hybrid Spaces in Antony and Cleopatra; Elisabeth Bronfen.- 6. The Sea in Pericles; Bernhard Klein.- PART II: MIGRATING SHAKESPEARE, MIGRATING HAMLET.- 7. Universals in the Bush: The Case of Hamlet; Dominique Brancher.- 8. The German Hamlet: Ghostly Encounters in the Space of the Stage and the Novel; Alexander Honold; 9. ‘One cannot act Hamlet, one must be Hamlet’: The Acculturation of Hamlet in Russia; Thomas Grob.- 10. Hamlet’s Mobility: The Reception of Shakespeare’s Tragedy in US-American and Canadian Fiction; Gabriele Rippl. 11. Local Habitations: Hamlet at Helsingør, Juliet at Verona; Balz Engler.- Index.-