Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Chapter 1: Introduction: Jane and Will, the Love Story
Marina Cano and Rosa Garc a-Periago
Part 1: History, Contexts and Criticism
Chapter 2: Jane Austen as 'Prose Shakespeare': Early Comparisons
Joanne Wilkes
Chapter 3: William Shakespeare and Jane Austen: Biographical Challenges
Robert Bearman
Chapter 4: Shakespeare and Austen Translated
Marie Nedregotten S rb
Chapter 5: Jewels, Bonds and the Body: Material Culture in Shakespeare and Austen
Barbara Benedict
Part 2: Intertextual Connections
Chapter 6: Is it 'a marriage of true minds'? Balanced Reading in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
Lynda Hall
Chapter 7: 'As sure as I have a thought or a soul': The Protestant Heroine in Shakespeare and Austen
Claire McEachern
Chapter 8: Tyrants, Lovers, and Comedy in the Green Worlds of Mansfield Park and A Midsummer Night's Dream
Inger S. B. Brodey
Chapter 9: Forbidden Familial Relations: Echoes of Shakespeare's King Henry VIII and Hamlet in Austen's Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility
Glenda Hudson
Part 3: Theatre, Film and Performance
Chapter 10: Shylock's turquoise ring: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park and the Exquisite Acting of Edmund Kean
Judith Page
Chapter 11: Austen and Shakespeare: Improvised Drama
Marina Cano
Chapter 12: Shakespeare, Austen and Propaganda in World War II
Rosa Garc a-Periago
Chapter 13: Screening Will and Jane: Sexuality and the Gendered Author in Shakespeare and Austen Biopics
Lisa Starks
Part 4: Popular Culture
Chapter 14: Austen and Shakespeare, Detectives
Lisa Hopkins
Chapter 15: In the Pursuit of Love: Twilight, Jane and Will
Heta Pyrh nen
Chapter 16: Curating Will & Jane
Janine Barchas and Kristina Straub
Chapter 17: Afterword
Mark Thornton Burnett