Shakespeare. Satire. Academia

Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Weiss. Edited by Sonja Fielitz and Uwe Meyer.

This collection of essays wishes to honour the extraordinary achievements of Wolfgang Weiss as one of the most learned, widely-read and internationally highly acclaimed professors of English in Germany over a period of about 40 years (in addition to serving as director of the Shakespeare Research Library in Munich and, for many years, as editor of the "Shakespeare Jahrbuch"). The 16 essays (six of which are in German) pay respect to Wolfgang Weiss's major fields of research and teaching, that is, first of all Shakespeare and the Early Modern Period, satire, and campus novels; and they cast fresh light on numerous exciting and new aspects. Contents: Stanley Wells/Paul Edmondson: Portraits of Shakespeare. - Andreas Höfele: Gefräßigkeit. "Titus Andronicus", "Timon of Athens". - Sonja Fielitz: "Timon" Revisited. - Günter Walch: "When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good". - Richard Wilson: Coriolanus' Hat. The Intrusion of the Time into the Play. - Robert Smallwood: Reflexions on Narrative and Theatre in some of Shakespeare's Plays. - Ulrich Suerbaum: Zweites Leben. Alternative Handlungswelten in Shakespeares Dramen. - Barbara Ravelhofer: Understanding Horses. Equestrian Ballet and Early Modern Political Thought. - Ingeborg Boltz: "The dog is himself and I am the dog". Eine fiktive Shakespeare-Biographie aus hündischer Perspektive. - Ulrich Broich: Flann O-Brien, "At Swim-Two-Birds" und der angloirische experimentelle Roman. - Uwe Meyer: The World of Academia in the Works of Alan Isler. - Dieter Fuchs: The Earl of Surrey's Geraldine-Sonnet Contextualized. Cultural (Mis-)Representations of Ireland in the Early Modern, the Enlightened and the Contemporary Period. - Dieter Mehl: Shakespeares "Rape of Lucrece" in Deutschland. Ein vorläufiger Bericht. - Nigel Wood: Chasing Allusions in Pope's Fifth "Pastoral", 'Messiah'. - Dieter Mehl: 'Touring Shakespeare'. Globale (T)räume und Netzwerke. - Christa Jansohn: From Stratford to Weimar. Scenes From Shakespeare. XVIII,242 Seiten mit 31 Abb., gebunden (Anglistische Forschungen; Vol. 424/Universitätsverlag Winter 2012) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear