Lunar Intersection

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Authors: Calenda
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Abstract

This issue of Shakespeare en devenir invites articles on representations, invocations, and speculations on lunar topics, from early modern imaginings and scientific investigations to contemporary deployments in performance, queer genre and eco-theory. Suggested topics and questions can include visual representations of the moon, the moon’s long association with diseases and madness, the Man in the Moon (sources, circulation, intertextuality), the moon and the cult of Elizabeth I, the cultural circulation and aftermath of Copernicus and Galileo’s discoveries, voyages to the moon as a utopia. Authors considered may range from Lyly, Shakespeare and Jonson, to John Wilkins, Aphra Behn, and modern and contemporary writers.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Renaissance Literature and Culture Shakespeare Adaptation and Literary Criticism Libraries Manuscripts and Books

Publication details

Journal / source
Hypotheses (OpenEdition)
Publication date
28 January 2026
Language
EN