Early Modern Improvisations: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of John Watkins

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Katherine Scheil Linda Shenk

Early Modern Improvisations

Essays on History and Literature in Honor of John Watkins

Katherine Scheil, Linda Shenk

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English

Routledge
03 June 2024

Shakespeare plays; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Medieval history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

Series: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture

With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and politics.

The book engages readers interested in texts that range from Shakespeare and Tudor queens to Anglican missionary work in North America; from contemporary feminist television series to Ancient Greek linguistic and philosophical concepts; from the delicate dance of diplomatic exchange to the instabilities of illness, food insecurity, and piracy. Its range of contributions encourages readers to discover their own intersections across literary and historical texts, a sense of discovery that this collection’s contributors learned from its dedicatee, John Watkins, a major literary and cultural historian whose work moves effortlessly across geographical, temporal, and political borders. His work and his personality embody the spirit of creative improvisation that brings new ideas together, allowing texts and figures of history to haunt later eras and encourage new questions.

This volume is aimed at scholars and students alike who wish to explore early modern culture and its reverberations in ways that engage with a world outside the grand narratives and centralized institutions of power, a world that is more provisional, less scripted, and more improvisational.

Edited by: Katherine Scheil, Linda Shenk
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032698298
ISBN 10: 1032698292
Series: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 03 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Katherine Scheil, Professor of English, University of Minnesota, writes on Shakespeare and women, including Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway (2018) and She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America (2012). She is finishing a book on the history of women in Stratford-upon-Avon. Linda Shenk, Professor of English, Iowa State University, conducts transdisciplinary research on collaborative storytelling—from Elizabethan drama, diplomacy, and court culture to co-creating climate resilience among researchers and communities. She has published in ELR, WIREs Climate Change, Environmental Humanities, and Explorations in Renaissance Culture.