Jane Austen and William Shakespeare: A Love Affair in Literature, Film and Performance

Chapter 1: Introduction: Jane and Will, the Love Story

Marina Cano and Rosa García-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 Sørbø

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

Rosa García-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 Pyrhönen

Janine Barchas and Kristina Straub

Chapter 17: Afterword

Mark Thornton Burnett