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Incorporates new research into previously unconsidered links between Austen and Shakespeare of particular interest to students of both authors
Illustrates Shakespeare’s influence on Austen
Highlights differences in the cultural positions of Austen and Shakespeare to more deeply consider how this impacts reception
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Intertextual Connections
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Theatre, Film and Performance
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Popular Culture
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About this book
This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on the historical, literary, critical and filmic links between the authors and their fates. Considering the implications of the popular cult of Austen and Shakespeare, the essays are interdisciplinary and comparative: ranging from Austen’s and Shakespeare’s biographies to their presence in the modern vampire saga Twilight, passing by Shakespearean echoes in Austen’s novels and the authors’ afterlives on the improv stage, in wartime cinema, modern biopics and crime fiction. The volume concludes with an account of the Exhibition “Will & Jane” at the Folger Shakespeare Library, which literally brought the two authors together in the autumn of 2016. Collectively, the essays mark and celebrate what we have called the long-standing “love affair” between William Shakespeare and Jane Austen—over 200 years and counting.
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Editors and Affiliations
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University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Marina Cano
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University of Murcia, Spain
Rosa García-Periago
About the editors
Marina Cano is Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is the author of Jane Austen and Performance (Palgrave, 2017). Her research interests include women’s writing, the long nineteenth-century, performance and gender theory.
Rosa García-Periago is Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain. She is currently on leave as Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast with a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship awarded by the EU. Her research interests include Jane Austen, Shakespeare and Bollywood and adaptation in Indian Cinema.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jane Austen and William Shakespeare
Book Subtitle: A Love Affair in Literature, Film and Performance
Editors: Marina Cano, Rosa García-Periago
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25689-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25688-3Published: 14 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25691-3Published: 14 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25689-0Published: 06 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 415
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Shakespeare, Comparative Literature, British and Irish Literature