The Authentic Shakespeare: and Other Problems of the Early Modern StageIn this lavishly illustrated book, one of the most important and influential scholars of the Renaissance stage brings together essays that have changed the way we think about the age of Shakespeare. His subjects are varied and interconnected: the theater as social phenomenon, the development of the stage as an architectural presence and a cultural institution, the changing use of setting and costume, the changing status of the acting profession, the complex relation of theater to the political life of the age. Most of all, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Many essays in The Authentic Shakespeare have become classics. Collected here for the first time, they essential reading for students of the Renaissance stage and the history of the book. |
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Page xi
... Ben Jonson's Oberon , 1611. Devonshire Collection , Chatsworth . Reproduced by permission of the Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees . Figure 6.7 . Arend van Buchel after Johannes de Witt , The Swan Playhouse ...
... Ben Jonson's Oberon , 1611. Devonshire Collection , Chatsworth . Reproduced by permission of the Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees . Figure 6.7 . Arend van Buchel after Johannes de Witt , The Swan Playhouse ...
Page xvii
... Ben Jonson's side in his famous quarrel with Inigo Jones — that poetry , not stagecraft , was the essential element in the masque — and maintained , on the contrary , that the illusionistic scenery and splendid costumes and decor ...
... Ben Jonson's side in his famous quarrel with Inigo Jones — that poetry , not stagecraft , was the essential element in the masque — and maintained , on the contrary , that the illusionistic scenery and splendid costumes and decor ...
Page xviii
... Ben Jonson and the masque in The Jonsonian Masque and my edition of the Jonson masques in the Yale Ben Jonson , and I take a particular pleasure in its continued currency because at the time it was written the masque was still the most ...
... Ben Jonson and the masque in The Jonsonian Masque and my edition of the Jonson masques in the Yale Ben Jonson , and I take a particular pleasure in its continued currency because at the time it was written the masque was still the most ...
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... Ben Jonson provides an excellent control for our notions of Renaissance dramatic texts . Jonson makes a large point out of insisting that the printed versions of his plays are substantially different from the versions that were staged ...
... Ben Jonson provides an excellent control for our notions of Renaissance dramatic texts . Jonson makes a large point out of insisting that the printed versions of his plays are substantially different from the versions that were staged ...
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... Ben Jonson says in The Masque of Blackness that he " apted " his invention to the commands of Queen Anne , he is distinguishing the invention of the text from its authority . Spenser and Jonson are the first writers in English to ...
... Ben Jonson says in The Masque of Blackness that he " apted " his invention to the commands of Queen Anne , he is distinguishing the invention of the text from its authority . Spenser and Jonson are the first writers in English to ...
Contents
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The Poetics of Spectacle | 49 |
The Spectacles of State | 71 |
The Renaissance Poet as Plagiarist | 89 |
Gendering the Crown | 107 |
Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama | 143 |
Macbeth and the Antic Round | 159 |
Prosperos Wife | 173 |
Marginal Jonson | 187 |
Tobacco and Boys | 211 |
The Authentic Shakespeare | 231 |
Notes | 257 |
Index | 271 |
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