Books by Julia Reinhard Lupton

What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questions bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has been obscured by historicist approaches to literature. This title encourages readers to ponder matters of shared concern with the playwright by their side.

'Face to face encounters are the essence of dramatic art. This collection shows us that close reading - knowing the score - is the condition of possibility for theatrical performance. The essays here feature some of the freshest and most original writing on Shakespeare I have seen in a long time.'Michael D. Bristol, McGill UniversityExplores the drama of proximity and co-presence in Shakespeare's playsThis book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare. On stage and in life, the face is always window and mirror, representation and presence. A distinguished group of contributors examine the emotional and ethical surplus that appears between faces in the activity and performance of human encounter on stage. By transitioning from face as noun to face as verb - to face, outface, interface, efface, deface, sur-face - chapters reveal how Shakespeare's plays discover conflict, betrayal and deception as well as love, trust and forgiveness between faces and the bodies that bear them.Matthew J. Smith is Associate Professor of English at Azusa Pacific University.Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.Cover image: Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in Macbeth, at the Other Place, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1976 ©Laurence Burns / ArenaPALCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-3568-0Barcode

Who is a citizen? What is a person? Who is my neighbor? Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, the author unveils the figure of the citizensaint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception.

This book examines the ways in which the literary genre of hagiography and the hermeneutical paradigm of Biblical typology together entered into the construction of "the Renaissance" as a canon and period.