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Ghostly Fragments: Essays on Shakespeare and Performance
Barbara C. HodgdonGhostly Fragments gathers the essays of the late Barbara C. Hodgdon, a renowned scholar of Shakespeare and performance studies. Her influential publications over thirty years reflected a remarkable intelligence, wit, and originality, as did her lectures and conference papers. Richard Abel and Peter Holland have selected essays that represent the wide sweep of Hodgdon's scholarship, including unpublished pieces and those from hard-to-access sources. The essays reveal a thinker and writer who grows more self-reflective over time, with a distinctive, engaging, often wryly humorous voice that is accessible even to nonspecialist readers.
Following a general introduction by Peter Holland, the book's five subsections (Teaching Shakespeare, Analyzing Stage Performances, Editing Shakespeare Texts, Analyzing Shakespeare Films, and "Shopping" in the Archives) are introduced in turn by scholars Miriam Gilbert, W.B. Worthen, Margaret Jane Kidnie, Richard Abel, and Pascale Aebischer. Collectively, the pieces confirm the originality and élan of Hodgdon's thinking and writing over time, and reveal her as a natural essayist and stylist, with a distinctive engaging voice. The collection is unique in not only bringing together so much of Hodgdon's work in one place (with an extensive bibliography of her published work) but also in demonstrating how groundbreaking and influential that work has been in the field.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction by Peter Holland
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I. Teaching Shakespeare
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Introduction by Miriam Gilbert
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Bernie on Hamlet
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Making Changes/Making Sense
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The Last Shakespeare Picture Show or Going to the Barricades
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II. Analyzing Stage Performances
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Introduction by W. B. Worthen
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Rehearsal Process as Critical Practice
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Making It New
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Re-Incarnations
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I Sing the Body Artifactual
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Un-Marking, Re-Marking, and Difference
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III. Editing Shakespeare Texts
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Introduction by Margaret Jane Kidnie
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Dream Talk
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Who Is Performing “in” These Text(s)?; Or, Shrew-Ing Around
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New Collaborations with Old Plays
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IV. Analyzing Shakespeare Films
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Kozintsev’s King Lear
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Replicating Richard
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
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The Shakespearean Phonograph
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V. “Shopping” in the Shakespeare Archives
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Introduction by Pascale Aebischer
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Bride-ing the Shrew
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(You)Tube Travel
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Spectral Traces in the Archive
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Paper Worlds
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Published Writings by Barbara C. Hodgdon
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Contributors
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Index
- 978-0-472-13229-4 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12836-5 (ebook)