Though we are interested in playing characters, we welcome the increased scholarly attention to "character" study in general. For more, see the advertisement from Ashgate Publishing below:
Shakespeare’s
Sense of Character
On the Page and From the Stage
Edited by Yu Jin Ko, Wellesley College and Michael W. Shurgot, South Puget Sound Community College.
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
From Ashgate Publishing . . .
Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence
of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theater practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions of what Shakespearean character is, and to extend the range of critical vocabularies in which character criticism can work. The return to character thus involves incorporating as well as contesting postmodern ideas that have radically revised our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. At the same time, by engaging theater practitioners, this book promotes the kind of comprehensive dialogue that is necessary for the common endeavor of sustaining the vitality of Shakespeare’s characters.
About the Editors:
Yu Jin Ko is Professor of English at Wellesley College.
Michael W. Shurgot is Professor of Humanities at South Puget Sound Community College.
Our own director contributed a chapter to this collection: ‘Stops’ in the name of love: playing typological Iago, by Travis Curtright.
Visit www.ashgate.com for sample pages.
