Jane Austen and William Shakespeare : a love affair in literature, film and performance /
This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on the historical, literary, critical and filmic links between the authors and their fates. Considering the implications of the popular cult o...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Jane and Will, the love story / Marina Cano and Rosa García-Periago
- Part I History, contexts and criticism. Jane Austen as 'Prose Shakespeare' : early comparisons / Joanne Wilkes
- William Shakespeare and Jane Austen : biographical challenges / Robert Bearman
- Austen and Shakespeare translated / Marie Nedregotten Sørbø
- Jewels, bonds and the body : material culture in Shakespeare and Austen / Barbara M. Benedict
- Part II Intertextual connections. Is it 'a marriage of true minds'? Balanced reading in Northanger Abbey and Persuasions / Lynda A. Hall
- 'As sure as I have a thought or a soul' : The Protestant heroine in Shakespeare and Austen / Claire McEachern
- Tryants, lovers and comedy in the green worlds of Mansfield Park and A Midsummer Night's Dream / Inger S. B. Brodey
- Forbidden familial relations : echoes of Shakespeare's King Henry VIII and Hamlet in Austen's Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility / Glenda A. Hudson
- Part III Theatre, film and performance. Shylock's turquoise ring : Jane Austen, Mansfield Park and the 'exquisite acting' of Edmund Kean / Judith W. Page
- Austen and Shakespeare : improvised drama / Shakespeare, Austen and Propaganda in World War II / Rosa García-Periage
- Screening Will and Jane : sexuality and the gendered author in Shakespeare and Austen biopics / Lisa S. Starks
- Part IV Popular culture. Austen and Shakespeare, detectives / Lisa Hopkins
- The Twilight Saga as an adaptation of Shakespeare and Austen / Heta Pyrhönen
- Curating Will & Jane / Janine Barchas and Kristina Straub
- Afterword / Mark Thornton Burnett.