Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. FoakesMany of the contributors to this collection, including E. A. J. Honigmann, M. M. Mahood, Jonathan Bate, and Stanley Wells (among others), have been centrally involved in examining, promoting, and sometimes questioning the critical dominance of the stable Shakespeare text, particularly as a result of performance. The essays range from the traditional poetical and theater history inquiries through bibliographical examinations and hermeneutical interpretations. |
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... Edgar : Aspects of King Lear in Performance 198 MICHAEL HATTAWAY Designs on Shakespeare : Sleeves , Gloves , and Helen's Placket 216 CAROL CHILLINGTON RUTTER Australian Shakespeare 240 ALAN BRISSENDEN Cutting Women Down to Size in the ...
... Edgar : Aspects of King Lear in Performance 198 MICHAEL HATTAWAY Designs on Shakespeare : Sleeves , Gloves , and Helen's Placket 216 CAROL CHILLINGTON RUTTER Australian Shakespeare 240 ALAN BRISSENDEN Cutting Women Down to Size in the ...
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... Edgar precipitates his father's death . The pattern , then , is of Stoic comfort not working : in 4.1 Edgar reflects on his own condition and cheers himself up with thoughts about the worst , then his father comes on blinded and he's ...
... Edgar precipitates his father's death . The pattern , then , is of Stoic comfort not working : in 4.1 Edgar reflects on his own condition and cheers himself up with thoughts about the worst , then his father comes on blinded and he's ...
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... Edgar re- veals the deficiency of Stoic comfort , that of Albany demonstrates the inadequacy of belief in divine justice . His credo is that the good shall taste " the wages of their virtue " and the bad drink from the poisoned " cup of ...
... Edgar re- veals the deficiency of Stoic comfort , that of Albany demonstrates the inadequacy of belief in divine justice . His credo is that the good shall taste " the wages of their virtue " and the bad drink from the poisoned " cup of ...
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... Edgar , though , tries to do so in the final scene , in a notably cruel " eye for an eye " judgment : " The dark and vicious place where thee he got / Cost him his eyes " ( 5.3.170-71 ) . But this notion of divine justice certainly can ...
... Edgar , though , tries to do so in the final scene , in a notably cruel " eye for an eye " judgment : " The dark and vicious place where thee he got / Cost him his eyes " ( 5.3.170-71 ) . But this notion of divine justice certainly can ...
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... Edgar . This is the attraction of the court fool : he is fun and he speaks the truth , whereas wise rhetoricians invert the truth . Only the fool is allowed to speak the truth without incurring displeasure . With Folly , no art is ...
... Edgar . This is the attraction of the court fool : he is fun and he speaks the truth , whereas wise rhetoricians invert the truth . Only the fool is allowed to speak the truth without incurring displeasure . With Folly , no art is ...
Contents
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Shakespeares Sense of Direction | 33 |
The Lord Chamberlains Mens Tour of 1597 | 56 |
No Quarrel but a slight Contention | 72 |
Julius Caesar and Sejanus | 88 |
Three Detachable Scenes | 108 |
Representing Falsehood | 122 |
The First Performances of Shakespeares Sonnets | 131 |
Aspects of King Lear in Performance | 198 |
Sleeves Gloves and Helens Placket | 216 |
Australian Shakespeare | 240 |
Cutting Women Down to Size in the Olivier and Loncraine Films of Richard III | 260 |
Film Editing | 273 |
Afterword | 299 |
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Notes on Contributors | 308 |
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Page 24 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Page 21 - A man may see how this world goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: Change places; and, handydandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?