Presents fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's representations of and in the 'North', past and present Presents a wide range of emerging and established scholars working across the North of England, and across the English-Scottish border Looks backwards and forwards, offering a survey of historical change, with chapters on Shakespeare and Northernness in the early modern period, as well as on later appropriations of his work in the 'North' Attunes to Shakespeare's role in live political and theoretical debates about national sovereignty and identities, and regional communities and cultures Situates Shakespeare's works alongside less canonical texts and diverse media Offers detailed case studies of new material, with primary sources drawn from rich but rarely-used local, municipal and performance archives Provides an opportunity to critically reflect on links and differences between past and present, England and Scotland, the local and the global This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays. Considering how Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood the 'North', it brings together diverse voices to define what the 'North' meant and means in relation to Shakespeare. The book also situates Shakespeare's works alongside less canonical texts and media, as well as detailed case studies of new material from rich but rarely-used local, municipal and performance archives. It provides an opportunity to critically reflect on links and differences between the past and present, England and Scotland, the local and the global.

About the Author
Adam Hansen is Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University. He is the author of Shakespeare and Popular Music (Continuum, 2010) and co-editor of several collections, including Shakespearean Echoes, with Kevin J. Wetmore, eds. (Palgrave, 2015) and The White Devil: A Critical Reader, with Paul Frazer, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2016). He is on the editorial board of This Rough Magic, and Reviews Editor for English: The Journal of the English Association.

Reviews
"In Charlotte Bront 's Shirley, the ruthless mill owner learns his disastrous industrial strategy from Coriolanus. The excellent contributors to Shakespeare in the North expand this fruitfully antagonistic relationship, placing England's national poet to the north of traditional Shakrespeare centres of culture and replacing Stratford, London, Arden and Windsor with Blackpool, Edinburgh, Northumberland and Tyneside." -Emma Smith, University of Oxford



Book Information
ISBN 9781474435932
Author Adam Hansen
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press