Shakespeare and Emotions: Inheritances, Enactments, Legacies

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Reclaiming Heartlands: Shakespeare and the History of Emotions in Literature....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
‘Of comfort and dispaire’: Plato’s Philosophy of Love and Shakespeare’s Sonnets....Pages 17-28
Once Upon a Time: Cymbeline, Fairy Tales and ‘the terrifying truths of the inner life’....Pages 29-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-48
‘My heart dances’: Performing Emotion through Shakespeare’s Rhythms....Pages 49-58
‘The teares of ten thousand spectators’: Shakespeare’s Experiments with Emotion from Talbot to Richard II....Pages 59-68
Making a Virtue of Giddiness: Rethinking Troilus’ (E)Motion....Pages 69-79
‘I shall split all/In pleasure of my spleen!’: Troilus and Cressida and the Expression of Emotion....Pages 81-81
Lear in the Storm: Shakespeare’s Emotional Exploration of Sovereign Mortality....Pages 83-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-107
Only Connect: Dramaturgy and a Living Shakespeare....Pages 108-115
Cabbages and Kings: Curating the Objects and Emotions of English Encounter with the World through Shakespeare....Pages 116-123
’Tis Master’s Voice: A Seventeenth-Century Shakespeare Recording?....Pages 124-136
Recognition in Shakespeare and Hegel....Pages 137-145
Front Matter....Pages 146-154
‘The days that we have seen’: History and Regret in Henry IV, Parts One and Two, The Hollow Crown (2012)....Pages 155-163
Whose Nostalgia? Geoffrey Rush and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Brisbane 1987....Pages 164-172
Afterword....Pages 173-173
Back Matter....Pages 175-185
....Pages 186-197