{"product_id":"9783032458766","title":"Shakespearean Awakenings From Sleep and Faith to Affect and Civic Critique","description":"\u003ch1\u003eShakespearean Awakenings\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFrom Sleep and Faith to Affect and Civic Critique\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eClaude Fretz\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Modern \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Shakespeare’s plays, characters do not simply wake up from sleep; rather, they awaken into profound, transformative confrontations with themselves and their worlds. \u003cem\u003eShakespearean Awakenings\u003c\/em\u003e provides the first sustained investigation of literal and metaphorical awakenings across Shakespeare’s canon. Ranging from physical on-stage and off-stage awakenings to the semantic deployment of the term, this book treats the moment of waking not as a mere postscript to a dream but as a site of dramatic, religious, bodily, psychological, and political change. Tracing the trope across genres, this book examines how Shakespeare appropriates and subverts classical, scriptural, and early modern traditions of awakening narratives. It explores how Shakespeare moves beyond traditional, religiously reformative models of conversion to dramatise moments of moral, emotional, and political disorientation. From the failed spiritual awakenings of \u003cem\u003eRichard III\u003c\/em\u003e and the rebirths of \u003cem\u003eThe Winter’s Tale\u003c\/em\u003e to the humoral, sexual, and Senecan crises in \u003cem\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e, Shakespeare depicts awakening as a liminal experience where interior selfhood intersects with intersubjective social order. The book extends its analysis to twenty-first-century performance, revealing how directors leverage the subversive potential of Shakespearean awakenings to interrogate discourses on structural, ecological, and political justice. \u003cem\u003eShakespearean Awakenings\u003c\/em\u003e offers a vital new framework for understanding the relational and volatile nature of early modern identity—and its enduring contemporary resonance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClaude Fretz\u003c\/strong\u003e has taught Shakespeare and early modern English literature at universities in the UK and China. He received his PhD from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eDreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare’s Genres\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and co-editor of \u003cem\u003ePerforming Restoration Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e (2023) and \u003cem\u003eNarrating Dreams: Solution and Dissolution\u003c\/em\u003e (2024). He has also published his research in journals including \u003cem\u003eShakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCritical Survey\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eConcentric: Literary and Cultural Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRestoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 1660–1700\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCahiers Elisabéthains\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eÉtudes Épistémè\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16 January 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032458766\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63414400155788,"sku":"9783032458766","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032458766","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}