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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... Poet as Plagiarist 89 8 Gendering the Crown 107 9 The Play of Conscience 129 10 Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama 11 Macbeth and the Antic Round 159 12 Prospero's Wife 173 13 Marginal Jonson 187 14 Tobacco and Boys 211 15 The Authentic ...
... Poet as Plagiarist 89 8 Gendering the Crown 107 9 The Play of Conscience 129 10 Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama 11 Macbeth and the Antic Round 159 12 Prospero's Wife 173 13 Marginal Jonson 187 14 Tobacco and Boys 211 15 The Authentic ...
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... Poet as Plagiarist " was presented ( under the title " The Renaissance Artist as Plagiarist ” ) in 1975 at an English Institute session on imitation organized by Tom McFarland , a good friend and a formidable scholar . Both " Prospero's ...
... Poet as Plagiarist " was presented ( under the title " The Renaissance Artist as Plagiarist ” ) in 1975 at an English Institute session on imitation organized by Tom McFarland , a good friend and a formidable scholar . Both " Prospero's ...
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... Poet as Plagiarist . ELH 48 : 3 ( fall 1981 ) . 8. Gendering the Crown . Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture , eds . Margreta de Grazia , Maureen Quilligan , and Peter Stallybrass ( Cambridge , 1996 ) . 9. The play of Conscience ...
... Poet as Plagiarist . ELH 48 : 3 ( fall 1981 ) . 8. Gendering the Crown . Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture , eds . Margreta de Grazia , Maureen Quilligan , and Peter Stallybrass ( Cambridge , 1996 ) . 9. The play of Conscience ...
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... poets . For the Elizabethan age Spenser is the prime example , and yet Spenser continually asserts that the authority of his text derives not from his genius but from the poem's subject and patron , the queen . Our tendency is to ...
... poets . For the Elizabethan age Spenser is the prime example , and yet Spenser continually asserts that the authority of his text derives not from his genius but from the poem's subject and patron , the queen . Our tendency is to ...
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... poets- " laureate poets , " in Richard Helgerson's excellent term - and it is therefore very important for them to locate ... poet's mind , voice , intentions ( though we tend to be wary about the last of these ) , and that when we write ...
... poets- " laureate poets , " in Richard Helgerson's excellent term - and it is therefore very important for them to locate ... poet's mind , voice , intentions ( though we tend to be wary about the last of these ) , and that when we write ...
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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