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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... later on his own the two volume The Henslowe Papers , much prized by book collectors ) through to his numerous critical editions , produced over five decades , of the plays of Shakespeare and his con- temporaries , including The ...
... later on his own the two volume The Henslowe Papers , much prized by book collectors ) through to his numerous critical editions , produced over five decades , of the plays of Shakespeare and his con- temporaries , including The ...
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... later history ( examples of this kind of work would be Michael Dobson's treatment of Nahum Tate's infamous rewriting of Lear in relation to the Exclusion Crisis , my own investi- gation of what happened to the play when England really ...
... later history ( examples of this kind of work would be Michael Dobson's treatment of Nahum Tate's infamous rewriting of Lear in relation to the Exclusion Crisis , my own investi- gation of what happened to the play when England really ...
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... later she lies beautifully and generously when Lear says that she has cause to do him wrong , and she replies " No cause , no cause " ( 4.7.75 ) . The closing section of Erasmus's Praise of Folly undertakes a seri- ous praise of ...
... later she lies beautifully and generously when Lear says that she has cause to do him wrong , and she replies " No cause , no cause " ( 4.7.75 ) . The closing section of Erasmus's Praise of Folly undertakes a seri- ous praise of ...
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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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