Shakespeare on (and in) the Margins: C.S. Lewis's Engagement with Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare, C.S. Lewis, Annotations, C.S. Lewis Library

Abstract

Sarah R.A. Waters refutes assertions about C.S. Lewis’s lack of Shakespeare scholarship through close examination of the copious notes, criticism, and analyses he made of Shakespeare and Shakespeare scholarship, particularly in the margins of his personal copies of Shakespeare’s works. Many of those marginal notes are published here for the first time.

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Author Biography

  • Sarah R.A. Waters, Sterling College

    Dr. Sarah R.A. Waters is assistant professor of language and literature at Sterling College. With a PhD in medical humanities and English literature, with a particular focus on Shakespearean drama and an early research background working on Shakespeare and Narnia, she is a specialist on Shakespeare and C.S. Lewis. She works on Shakespeare and Lewis separately and together. She speaks regularly on Lewis and Shakespeare across Europe and the United States. In 2019, she was the first recipient of the Marion E. Wade Center’s William George Shuster Research Grant for Younger Scholars, and in 2023 she delivered the annual Shakespeare Lecture of the Batson Shakespeare Society at Wheaton College. Recent publications include “Hamlet in Narnia: The Prince and the Poem in Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia” (Mythlore, 2024); “Tripping into the Light Fantastic: Seeing (through) MacDonald” (Northwind, 2024); “‘A Critic Who Makes No Claim’: Disrupting Lewis’s (In)Expert Rhetorical Flourishes” (Linguaculture, 2024); ‘“De Arca Noe”: An Early Lewis-Barfield Collaboration’ (Journal of Inklings Studies, 2023); and “Lewis, Lear and the Four Loves,” in the special issue of An Unexpected Journal on Shakespeare and Cultural Apologetics which she co-edited with Joe Ricke (2022). She is currently working on a book (recently under contract with Kent State UP) on Lewis and Shakespeare.

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Published

2025-03-31

Issue

Volume 40 (2024)

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Articles

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