Temporality, Genre and Experience in the Age of Shakespeare Forms of Time [Hardcover]

Focusing on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, these original essays by leading scholars explore how theatrical, aesthetic, and linguistic forms engage early modern experiences of temporality.

Encompassing comedy, tragedy, history, and romance, some contributions consider how different models of pastness, presentness, sequentiality, memory, and historical meaning underwrite particular representational practices. Others, conversely, investigate how aesthetic forms afforded diverse ways for early-modern people to understand or experience time - and how this can impact us today.

Lauren Shohetis Luckow Family Professor of English at Villanova University, USA and the author ofReading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century(2010). Her writing on early modern poetry, drama, and form has focused on Milton, Marvell, Jonson, and Shakespeare, appearing in such journals asPoetics Today,Milton Studies,Shakespeare Studies, theJournal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, and theYearbook of English Studies. She is coeditor ofGathering Force: British Literature in Transition 1557-1623and of the first volume of the forthcoming three-volumeBritish Literature in Transition 1557-1680(general editor Stephen Dobranski, 2017). She has held fellowships and appointments from the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, and Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (Germany).

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowlegements

Note on Texts

1. Introduction: Forms of Time (Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, USA)

Part One: Illuminating

2. Shakespeares theater of comic time (Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland, College Park, USA)

3. Suspense Revisited: The Shared Experience of Time (Raphael Falco, University of Maryland, USA)

4. In the Course and Process of Time: Ruptl³@