Wonder in Shakespeare

1. Front Matter

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2. Wonder in Shakespeare

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

      • Adam Max Cohen

      Pages 3-8

   3. Wonder, Amazement, and Surprise: Beginning a Stunning Story

      • Adam Max Cohen

      Pages 9-16

   4. Resurrections of the Living and the Dead: Natural and Spiritual Bodies and Souls

      • Adam Max Cohen

      Pages 17-40

   5. ”Die to Live”: Various Forms of Empathetic Wonder

      • Adam Max Cohen

      Pages 41-52

   6. The Metaphorical Use of the Prodigious Birth Tradition

      • Adam Max Cohen

      Pages 53-68

   7. More of a Prodigy than a Prophecy

      • Adam Max Cohen

      Pages 69-83

   8. Wonder, Awe, and Admiration: Shakespeare’s Cabinets of Curiosity

      • Adam Max Cohen

      Pages 85-95

   9. Transalpine Wonders: Shakespeare’s Marvelous Aesthetics

      • Adam Max Cohen

      Pages 97-108

3. Back Matter

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4. Six Responses to Wonder in Shakespeare

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

      • Adam Max Cohen

      Pages 127-129

   3. Embodying Wonder

      • Maura Tarnoff

      Pages 131-138

   4. The Aesthetic Resurrection of the ”Death-mark’d” Lovers in Romeo and Juliet

      • Janna Segal

      Pages 139-147

   5. The “Spectacle of Conversion,” Wonder, and Film in The Merchant of Venice

      • M. G. Aune

      Pages 149-163

   6. God Save the King: Richard II in Wonder-land

      • Rebecca Steinberger

      Pages 165-174

   7. A World of (No) Wonder, or No Wonder-wounded Hearers Here: Toward a Theory on the Vanishing Mediation of “No Wonder” in Shakespeare’s Theater

      • Kristin Keating, Bryan Reynolds

      Pages 175-194

   8. Passing for Truth: Wonder Tales and their Audiences in Othello

      • Joshua B. Fisher

      Pages 195-213

5. Back Matter

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In the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic divides between comedy, tragedy, history, and romance and suggests that Shakespeare's primary goal in crafting each of his playworlds was the evocation of one or more varieties of wonder.

• aesthetics
• comedy
• corpus
• eros
• god
• history
• history of literature
• living
• media
• metaphor
• theatre
• tradition
• tragedy
• truth
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

'The final work in a too brief career, Adam Max Cohen's Wonder in Shakespeare is a kind of seminar on Shakespeare's multiple senses of 'wonder': prodigies, resurrections, and Miranda things that should be looked at, including that young castaway in The Tempest. This is also a book about limits the limits of language and the senses and how Shakespeare's plays capture and reflect that precious aspect of human experience." - William Germano, Cooper Union

"Recommended." CHOICE

ADAM MAX COHEN earned his PhD from the University of Virginia, USA, and was an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His teaching interests included Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Early Modern Cultural Studies, History of Science, and Technology. He is the author of Shakespeare and Technology: Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions and Technology and the Early Modern Self.

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