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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... Performance , eds . Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ( New York : Routledge , 1995 ) . 10. Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama . Critical Inquiry 6 : 1 ( fall 1979 ) . 11. Macbeth and the Antic Round . Shakespeare Survey 52 , 1999 ...
... Performance , eds . Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ( New York : Routledge , 1995 ) . 10. Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama . Critical Inquiry 6 : 1 ( fall 1979 ) . 11. Macbeth and the Antic Round . Shakespeare Survey 52 , 1999 ...
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... performance : if all this is true , where is Shakespeare's authority ? If the changes were made after Shakespeare's retirement or death , why did the company think that was the right text to include in the folio ? I suggest that the ...
... performance : if all this is true , where is Shakespeare's authority ? If the changes were made after Shakespeare's retirement or death , why did the company think that was the right text to include in the folio ? I suggest that the ...
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... performance . This is a very clear case of the character being considered both prior to and independent of her lines , but it also clearly springs not from the play but from notions of how fifteen - year - old girls ought to behave . It ...
... performance . This is a very clear case of the character being considered both prior to and independent of her lines , but it also clearly springs not from the play but from notions of how fifteen - year - old girls ought to behave . It ...
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... performance is largely a history of the subversion of the text . Actors are the original poststructuralists , assuming , throughout the history of theater , that the author does not control the play , the interpreter does ; and that ...
... performance is largely a history of the subversion of the text . Actors are the original poststructuralists , assuming , throughout the history of theater , that the author does not control the play , the interpreter does ; and that ...
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... performance . This is a very clear case of the character being considered both prior to and independent of her lines , but it also clearly springs not from the play but from notions of how fifteen - yearold girls ought to behave . It ...
... performance . This is a very clear case of the character being considered both prior to and independent of her lines , but it also clearly springs not from the play but from notions of how fifteen - yearold girls ought to behave . It ...
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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