Table Of ContentShakespeare and I
Shakespeare Now!
Series edited by E wan Fernie and Simon Palfrey
Web editors: Theodora Papadopoulou and William McKenzie
F irst Wave:
At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean Steve Mentz
G odless Shakespeare Eric S. Mallin
S hakespeare’s Double Helix Henry S. Turner
S hakespeare Inside Amy Scott-Douglass
Shakespearean Metaphysics Michael Witmore
S hakespeare’s Modern Collaborators Lukas Erne
S hakespeare Thinking Philip Davis
To Be Or Not To Be Douglas Bruster
S econd Wave:
The King and I Philippa Kelly
The Life in the Sonnets David Fuller
H amlet’s Dreams David Schalkwyk
Nine Lives of William Shakespeare Graham Holderness
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Shakespeare and I
Edited by William McKenzie
and Theodora Papadopoulou
Continuum International Publishing Group
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
EISBN: 978-1-4411-4764-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shakespeare and I / edited by William McKenzie and Theodora Papadopoulou
p. cm. – (Shakespeare Now!)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4411-3718-0 (pbk.) – ISBN 978-1-4411-4371-6 (hardcover)
1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 – Infl uence. 2. Shakespeare, William,
1564-1616 – Appreciation – English-speaking countries. I. McKenzie, William,
1976- II. Papadopoulou, Theodora, 1981-
PR2965S365 2012
822.3’3–dc23 2 011035035
Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India
Printed and bound in India
Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
General Editors’ Preface to the Second-Wave of the Series xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Notes on Editions xvi
Introduction: The ‘I’ Has It 1
Theodora Papadopoulou and William McKenzie
1. Mea Culpa 1 9
Ewan Fernie
2. Othello, Marriage, Middle Age 4 0
Eric S. Mallin
3. Discovering Transgression: Reading from the Passions 61
David Fuller
4. Ghosts and Heartbeats 7 8
Philippa Kelly
5. Going to Shakespeare: Memory and Anamnesis 8 7
Peter Holland
6. Stand Up for Bastards 107
Richard Wilson
7. My Language! 1 26
Thomas Docherty
8. Mrs Polonius and I 1 44
Julia Reinhard Lupton
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9. ‘Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am?’ 1 61
Graham Holderness
10. Hierophantic Shakespeare 178
Philippa Berry
11. No ‘I’ in Shakespeare 201
Philip Davis
12. Real Men Don’t Cry 221
Sarah Klenbort
13. Ghostly Selections 233
Simon Palfrey
Afterword: ‘Speak what we feel, not what
we ought to say’ 258
Paul Edmondson
Bibliography 269
Index 283
Notes on Contributors
Philippa Berry i s the author of books and articles on Shakespeare
and Renaissance culture, including Shakespeare’s Feminine Endings:
Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies (Routledge, 1999), and is co-editor
of T extures of Renaissance Knowledge (Manchester University Press,
2003).
Philip Davis i s a Professor of English Literature, University
of Liverpool. His books include Sudden Shakespeare (Athlone/
Continuum, 1996), T he Victorians (OUP, 2002) and S hakespeare
Thinking , as part of the Shakespeare Now! series (Continuum, 2007).
Thomas Docherty i s a Professor in the Department of English and
Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He has
published on most areas of English and comparative literature from
the Renaissance to the present day. His works include A fter Theory
(Routledge, 1990; revised and expanded 2nd edn, Edinburgh UP,
1996), The English Question, or Academic Freedoms (Sussex Academic
Press, 2007), For the University (Bloomsbury, 2011) and C onfessions:
The Philosophy of Transparency (Bloomsbury, 2011).
Paul Edmondson i s Head of Knowledge and Research and Director
of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival for The Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust. He is co-series editor for Palgrave Macmillan’s
Shakespeare Handbooks, Manchester University Press’s R evels Plays
Companions and co-supervisory editor of the Penguin Shakespeare
(for which he has contributed to several introductions). His other
publications include Twelfth Night: A Guide to the Text and Its
Theatrical Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and (co-authored with
Stanley Wells) S hakespeare’s Sonnets (Oxford Shakespeare Topics
viii Notes on Contributors
series; OUP, 2004) and C offee with Shakespeare (Duncan Baird,
2008). He is a priest in The Church of England.
Ewan Fernie is Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Fellow at
The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is the
author of Shame in Shakespeare , editor of Spiritual Shakespeares
and co-ordinating editor of R econceiving the Renaissance . He has
recently completed a M acbeth novel with Simon Palfrey, with
whom he is General Editor of the Shakespeare Now! series. Fernie
is Principal Investigator of the AHRC / ESRC funded project,
‘The Faerie Queene Now: Remaking Religious Poetry for Today’s
World’, for which he wrote R edcrosse: A New Celebration of
England and St George with the poets Andrew Motion, Michael
Symmons Roberts and Jo Shapcott and the theologian Andrew
Shanks. Redcrosse was premiered at St George’s Chapel, Windsor
and Manchester Cathedral in 2011 and is due to be taken by the
RSC to Coventry Cathedral in its jubilee year of 2012. Fernie
is completing a critical book for Routledge called T he Demonic:
Literature and Experience .
David Fuller is Emeritus Professor of English in the University of
Durham, UK. He is the author of Blake’s Heroic Argument (1988),
James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (1992), Signs of Grace (with David Brown, 1995),
and essays on a range of poetry, drama, and novels from Medieval
to Modern. He is the editor of T amburlaine the Great (1998) for
the Clarendon Press complete works of Marlowe, of William Blake:
Selected Poetry and Prose in the series Longman Annotated Texts
(2000), and co-editor (with Patricia Waugh) of T he Arts and Sciences
of Criticism (1999). He trained as a Musicologist, and has written on
opera and ballet. His The Life in The Sonnets was published in 2011
in the series Shakespeare Now!
Graham Holderness i s a writer, Professor of English at the University
of Hertfordshire, and author of Nine Lives of William Shakespeare , as
part of the Shakespeare Now! series (Continuum, 2011).
Notes on Contributors ix
Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies
in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre and Associate
Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He was
formerly Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-
Avon. He is editor of Shakespeare Survey and co-general editor (with
Stanley Wells) of the O xford Shakespeare Topics series. He is cur-
rently co-editing with Adrian Poole the series Great Shakespeareans
for Continuum.
Philippa Kelly i s a Shakespeare scholar serving as a resident dram-
aturge for the California Shakespeare Theatre, USA. She teaches
regularly in Australia, North America and the Middle East. She
is the author of The King and I for the Shakespeare Now! series
(Continuum, 2011). She has also written on the subject of the mir-
ror and, more generally, autobiographical identity in early modern
England.
Sarah Klenbort teaches literature at the University of Western
Sydney. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in literary
journals and magazines in Australia, Britain, and the United States.
She won the 2010 M slexia Short Story Competition and was one
of four winners of the 2011 Josephine Ulrich Short Story Prize in
Australia. She is currently working on a novel.
Julia Reinhard Lupton i s Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her most recent
scholarly books are T hinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and
Life (Chicago, 2011) and Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political
Theology (Chicago Press, 2005). She is the co-author with Ellen
Lupton of two books on the everyday life of design. Her newest
project is on Shakespeare and hospitality.
Eric S. Mallin is Associate Professor of English at the University of
Texas at Austin. He is author of Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and
the End of Elizabethan England (University of California Press, 1995),
and G odless Shakespeare for the Shakespeare Now! series (Continuum,
