Shakespeare and Emotions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Reclaiming Heartlands: Shakespeare and the History of Emotions in Literature

   1. Reclaiming Heartlands: Shakespeare and the History of Emotions in Literature

      • R. S. White

      Pages 1-14

3. Emotional Inheritances

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. ‘Of comfort and dispaire’: Plato’s Philosophy of Love and Shakespeare’s Sonnets

      • Danijela Kambaskovic

      Pages 17-28

   3. Locus amoenus or locus violens? Shakespearean Emotions Expressed Through an Ovidian Model

      • Bríd Phillips

      Pages 29-38

   4. Once Upon a Time: Cymbeline, Fairy Tales and ‘the terrifying truths of the inner life’

      • Ciara Rawnsley

      Pages 39-48

   5. ‘… another comfort’: Virginity and Emotion in Measure for Measure

      • Andrew Lynch

      Pages 49-58

   6. French Feeling: Language, Sex and Identity in Henry V

      • Stephanie Downes

      Pages 59-68

   7. Power, Vulnerability and Sexuality: Representations of Margaret of Anjou in a London Chronicle and Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI

      • Mary-Rose McLaren

      Pages 69-79

4. Shakespearean Enactments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. ‘My heart dances’: Performing Emotion through Shakespeare’s Rhythms

      • Peter Groves

      Pages 83-94

   3. ‘The teares of ten thousand spectators’: Shakespeare’s Experiments with Emotion from Talbot to Richard II

      • Ruth Lunney

      Pages 95-107

   4. Emotional Education and Leadership in the Henriad

      • Martin Dawes

      Pages 108-115

   5. ‘Say how I loved you’: Queering the Emotion of Male Same-Sex Love in The Merchant of Venice

      • Anthony Guy Patricia

      Pages 116-123

   6. Making a Virtue of Giddiness: Rethinking Troilus’ (E)Motion

      • Alison V. Scott

      Pages 124-136

   7. ‘I shall split all/In pleasure of my spleen!’: Troilus and Cressida and the Expression of Emotion

      • Ronald Bedford

      Pages 137-145

   8. Displacement: Maps and Emotions in Othello

      • Christopher Wortham

      Pages 146-154

   9. Lear in the Storm: Shakespeare’s Emotional Exploration of Sovereign Mortality

      • Jennifer Hamilton

      Pages 155-163

   10. ‘Sociable’ Tears in The Tempest

       • Heather Kerr

       Pages 164-172

5. Emotional Legacies and Re-enactments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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This collection of essays approaches the works of Shakespeare from the topical perspective of the History of Emotions. Contributions come from established and emergent scholars from a range of disciplines, including performance history, musicology and literary history.

• Literature
• Shakespeare
• drama
• theatre
• emotions
• history of emotions
• early modern history
• early modern literature
• Renaissance drama
• reader response
• reception theory
• dramatic adaptation
• Early Modern Literature
• emotion
• English literature
• history
• history of literature
• Renaissance
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

• The University of Western Australia, Australia

  R. S. White

• University of Waikato, New Zealand

  Mark Houlahan

• Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Western Australia, Australia

  Katrina O’Loughlin

Ronald Bedford, University of New England, Australia  Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia, Australia 
Martin Dawes, independent scholar, Canada
Stephanie Downes, University of Melbourne, Australia 
Rosemary Gaby, University of Tasmania, Australia 
Peter Groves, Monash University, Australia 
Simon Haines, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Jennifer Hamilton, University of New South Wales, Australia 
Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato, New Zealand 
Danijela Kambaskovic, University of Western Australia, Australia 
Heather Kerr, University of Adelaide, Australia 
Philippa Kelly, California Shakespeare Theater, USA 
Andrew Lawrence-King, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, UK 
Ruth Lunney, University of Newcastle, Australia 
Andrew Lynch, University of Western Austr
alia, AustraliaDr Mary-Rose Mclaren, Victoria University, Australia 
Katrina O'Loughlin, University of Western Australia, Australia  
Anthony Guy Patricia, Concord University, USA 
Bríd Phillips, University of Western Australia, Australia 
Ciara Rawnsley, University of Western Australia, Australia 
Elizabeth Schafer, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 
Alison V. Scott, University of Queensland, Australia
R. S. White, University of Western Australia, Australia 
Christopher Wortham, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia

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