The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare An Introduction with Documents,9780312248802

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The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare An Introduction with Documents

by McDonald, Russ

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2nd

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9780312248802

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Pub. Date:

2/20/2001

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Bedford/St. Martin's

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- This ideal introduction covers the major topics essential to the study of Shakespeare including Shakespeare's life and work, his language, the theater in Shakespeare's time, early modern social structures (family, class, and gender), the historical and political contexts of the plays, and everyday life in early modern England. A new chapter on Shakespeare in performance introduces students to the great variety of productions of Shakespeare's works over the centuries and includes a selection of evocative performance photographs that help bring the history of performance to life.- Unique sets of primary documents in each chapter give students firsthand knowledge of early modern culture, including maps and illustrations, excerpts from conduct books, sermons, playhouse records, facsimiles from quartos and the First Folio, passages from Shakespeare's sources, dress laws, and popular ballads. The second edition features more documents by women and other marginalized voices from the early modern period and a new set of documents on Shakespeare in performance.- Useful editorial apparatus includes a through bibliography that provides students with a convenient resource for locating additional materials and serves as an introduction to the most significant Shakespeare criticism. An annotated appendix of the most useful Shakespeare Web sites helps students find additional documents and illustrations and aids their research. The Bedford Shakespeare Series Web Si

Author Biography

RUSS McDONALD (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is the editor of four plays in the revised Pelican series of Shakespeare's plays and the author of Shakespeare Reread (1994), Shakespeare and Jonson/Jonson and Shakespeare (1988), and numerous articles on early modern theater, comedy, and opera. A celebrated teacher, McDonald has taught at Mississippi State University, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Rochester. He has been actively involved with the NEH-sponsored Teaching Shakespeare Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and he has also served as resident scholar, head scholar, and institute director of Teaching Shakespeare's Language.

Preface

vii

To The Reader

xiii

Introduction

(1)

Shakespeare in Our Time

(2)

The Uses of a Companion

(1)

The Illustrations and Documents

(3)

Three Troublesome Topics: Terminology, Modernization, and Money

(1)

A Final Word

(4)

Shakespeare, ``Shakespeare,'' and the Problem of Authorship

Early Life

(3)

London: The First Decade

(4)

London: Maturity

(3)

Retirement

(2)

The Anti-Stratfordians

(2)

What Is an Author?

(3)

Illustrations and Documents

The House Known as Shakespeare's Birthplace

(1)

Record of Shakespeare's Baptism

(2)

Map of Stratford-upon-Avon

(1)

Francis Meres, From Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury

(1)

The Royal License for Shakespeare's Company

(1)

A Plague Bill

(1)

John Ward, Vicar of Stratford, From His Diary

(1)

Detail from the ``Agas'' Map of London (With Shakespeare's Lodging Indicated)

(2)

``To What End Are All These Words?'': Shakespeare's Dramatic Language

(43)

Early Modern English

(4)

Rhetoric

(2)

Wordplay

(3)

The Forms of Dramatic Language

(8)

Language as Theme

(4)

Illustrations and Documents

Desiderius Erasmus, From the Foreword to the Third Edition of the Latin New Testament

(1)

From The Art of Rhetoric (Of Composition)

(2)

Thomas Wilson

From Musophilus

(1)

Samuel Daniel

From ``Of the Vanity of Words''

(1)

Michel de Montaigne

From The Schoolmaster

(2)

Roger Ascham

From The Art of Reason, Rightly Termed Witcraft

(2)

Ralph Lever

From The Art of English Poesy

(5)

George Puttenham

From The Book of the Courtier

(4)

Baldassare Castiglione

Chart of the Relative Proportions of Poetry and Prose in Shakespeare's Plays

(2)

Theater a la Mode: Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama

(30)

Comedy

(4)

Tragedy

(5)

History

(4)

Romance

(3)

Mixed Modes

(2)

Illustrations and Documents

From The Defense of Poesy

(1)

Sir Philip Sidney

From The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry

100

(1)

Elizabeth Cary

From Poetics

101

(4)

Aristotle

Title Page of Richard III (First Quarto)

105

(2)

From His Notes of a Conversation with Queen Elizabeth I about Richard II

107

(1)

William Lambarde

From His Preface to The Faithful Shepherdess

107

(1)

John Fletcher

From A Short View of Tragedy

108

(1)

Thomas Rymer

Performances, Playhouses, and Players

109

(36)

Going to a Play, Circa 1595

109

(5)

The Playhouses

114

(6)

The Companies

120

(3)

The Theater and the Authorities

123

(5)

Illustrations and Documents

Map Showing the Playhouses in Shakespeare's Time

128

(1)

Sketch Accompanying Lines from Titus Andronicus

128

(1)

Henry Peacham

Inventory of Theatrical Costumes (From Henslowe's Papers)

129

(3)

Remains of the Rose Playhouse

132

(1)

Two Plans of the Rose Playhouse

133

(1)

Illustration of the Second Globe

134

(1)

C. Walter Hodges

Copy of De Witt's Sketch of the Swan Playhouse

135

(2)

Detail from Long View of London

137

(1)

Wenceslas Hollar

Log of Plays from His Diary

137

(3)

Philip Henslowe

Testimony about a Performance of Richard II

140

(1)

Record of King James's Payment to the King's Men

140

(1)

From An Apology for Actors

141

(2)

Thomas Heywood

Letter to His Wife

143

(2)

Edward Alleyn

``I Loved My Books'': Shakespeare's Reading

145

(49)

Shakespeare and the Classics

147

(2)

Major Influences

149

(5)

Indirect Sources

154

(4)

Shakespeare's Favorites

158

(5)

Illustrations and Documents

From The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York

163

(1)

Edward Hall

From the Geneva Bible

164

(5)

From Gli Hecatommithi (The Principal Source for Othello)

169

(2)

Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio

From The Book of Common Prayer (The Order for the Burial of the Dead)

171

(3)

From Acts and Monuments

174

(4)

John Foxe

A Moralized Ballad

178

(2)

From A True Reportory of the Wreck and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates (A Source for The Tempest)

180

(2)

Sir William Strachey

From Tamburlaine the Great

182

(1)

Christopher Marlowe

Two Sonnets from Astrophil and Stella

183

(1)

Sir Philip Sidney

Two Sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

184

(1)

Lady Mary Wroth

From The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Second Edition)

185

(1)

Raphael Holinshed

From Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Translated by Sir Thomas North)

186

(1)

Plutarch

Countess of Pembroke, From Her Translation of The Tragedy of Antonie Robert Garnier

187

(3)

Mary Sidney Herbert

From Metamorphoses (Translated by Arthur Golding)

190

(4)

Ovid

``What Is Your Text?''

194

(25)

What Is a Shakespearean Text?

195

(3)

From Pen to Press: The Printing of Renaissance Plays

198

(3)

Illustration of the Folding and Printing Process

200

(1)

Shakespeare's Plays in Print

201

(5)

Some Examples of Textual Instability

206

(4)

Shakespeare's Texts and the General Reader

210

(1)

Illustrations and Documents

Title Page of Titus Andronicus (First Quarto)

211

(1)

Title Page and Catalogue of the First Folio

212

(2)

Illustration of a Seventeenth-Century Print Shop (Frontispiece to Edmund Rive's Twelve Rules Introducing to the Art of Latin)

214

(1)

Facsimile of the Last Page of King Lear (First Quarto)

215

(1)

Facsimile of ``To be or not to be'' from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (First Quarto)

216

(1)

Facsimile of ``To be or not to be'' from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1623 Folio)

217

(1)

A Comparison of the Work of Compositors A and B on the 1623 Folio

218

(1)

Town and Country: Life in Shakespeare's England

219

(34)

London

221

(3)

The Suburbs

224

(1)

The Countryside

225

(3)

Rural Life

228

(3)

The Daily Routine

231

(1)

Clothing

231

(2)

Getting and Spending

233

(4)

Illustrations and Documents

From The Description of England (The Conditions of English Inns and Overnight Travel)

237

(1)

William Harrison

From Survey of London (The Location of Tradesmen in London)

238

(1)

John Stow

From ``The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London''

239

(2)

Isabella Whitney

From Travels in England (The Thames River)

241

(1)

Thomas Platter

From Journey through England and Scotland (A Visit to the Bearbaiting Arena)

241

(1)

Lupold von Wedel

From Christ's Tears over Jerusalem (The Brothels of Suburban London)

242

(1)

Thomas Nashe

From The English Husbandman (Rural Domestic Architecture and Interior Design)

243

(2)

Gervase Markham

From A Target for Tillage

245

(1)

John Moore

From The Book of Husbandry (What Works a Wife Should Do)

246

(2)

Sir Anthony Fitzherbert

From The Description of England (Dining Customs)

248

(1)

William Harrison

From Positions...for the Training Up of Children (Chapter 27, ``Of the Ball'')

248

(2)

Richard Mulcaster

From The Description of England (Fashion)

250

(2)

William Harrison

From A Delightful Daily Exercise for Ladies and Gentlewomen

252

(1)

John Murrell

Men and Women: Gender, Family, Society

253

(50)

The Situation of Women

253

(6)

Patriarchy

259

(4)

Primogeniture

263

(2)

Marriage and Money

265

(4)

Family Life

269

(4)

The Social Structure

273

(4)

Conclusion: The Body Politic

277

(1)

Illustrations and Documents

From Historia Animalium

278

(1)

Aristotle

From Natural and Artificial Directions for Health

279

(1)

William Vaughan

Letter on Poetry

279

(2)

Lady Anne Southwell

From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

281

(2)

Aemilia Lanyer

From Patriarcha, or The Natural Power of Kings

283

(2)

Sir Robert Filmer

From An Homily of the State of Matrimony

285

(5)

From of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises

290

(2)

William Gouge

From De Republica Anglorum: The Manner of Government of Policy of the Realm of England (Of Children)

292

(1)

Sir Thomas Smith

From An Heptameron of Civil Discourses (Household Laws to Keep the Married in Love, Peace, and Amity)

292

(1)

George Whetstone

From The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery

293

(2)

Elizabeth Clinton

On My First Son

295

(1)

Ben Jonson

Excerpts from Conduct Books

295

(1)

From The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (Of Buggery or Sodomy)

296

(2)

Sir Edward Coke

From The Tears of an Affectionate Shepherd Sick for Love, or The Complaint of Daphnis for the Love of Ganymede

298

(1)

Richard Barnfield

List of Royal Proclamations

299

(2)

Queen Elizabeth I

Royal Proclamation against Vagabonds and Unlawful Assemblies

301

(1)

Queen Elizabeth I

Edict Arranging for the Expulsion from England of Negroes and Blackamoors

302

(1)

Queen Elizabeth I

Politics and Religion: Early Modern Ideologies

303

(50)

An Absolute Monarchy?

304

(2)

Councillors

306

(2)

The Monarchs

308

(7)

The ``Ermine Portrait'' of Elizabeth I

309

(1)

Portrait of James I, by Paul van Somer

310

(5)

The Church

315

(3)

The Ideology of Order

318

(4)

Shakespeare's Theater and the Problem of Authority

322

(2)

The Stage and Its Opponents

324

(2)

Illustrations and Documents

From De Republica Anglorum: The Manner of Government or Policy of the Realm of England (Of Parliament and the Monarchy)

326

(2)

Sir Thomas Smith

The Tilbury Speech

328

(1)

Queen Elizabeth I

From A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at Whitehall

328

(3)

King James I

Secret Letter to Sir Robert Cecil

331

(1)

King James I

Letter to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

332

(1)

King James I

Letter Describing the Revels at King James's Court

333

(1)

Sir John Harington

From The Prince

334

(2)

Niccolo Machiavelli

From Basilikon Doron

336

(3)

King James I

From His Diary (On a Dream about an Encounter with Queen Elizabeth)

339

(1)

Simon Forman

From An Admonition to the Parliament

340

(3)

John Field

Thomas Wilcox

From the Catholics' Supplication and An Answer to the Catholics' Supplication

343

(2)

From An Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion

345

(4)

From Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

349

(2)

Richard Hooker

From The Anatomy of Abuses

351

(2)

Philip Stubbes

From Bracegirdle to Branagh: Shakespeare in Performance from 1660 to the Present

353

(53)

Innovations, Technical and Theatrical

354

(3)

Actors and Their Roles

357

(6)

American Shakespeare

363

(3)

Twentieth-Century Stages, Modern and Postmodern

366

(10)

Shakespeare Screened

376

(7)

Illustrations and Documents

David Garrick as King Lear (After a Painting by Benjamin Wilson)

383

(1)

From The History of King Lear

383

(3)

Nahum Tate

Three Lady Macbeths (Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, Judi Dench)

386

(2)

Ira Aldridge as Othello

388

(1)

Playbill Advertising a Gala Performance of Julius Caesar (Featuring the Three Booth Brothers)

389

(1)

Norman Wilkinson's Set Design for Twelfth Night

390

(1)

Robert Edmond Jones's Set Design for John Barrymore's Hamlet (New York and London)

391

(1)

John Barrymore's Script for Hamlet (Directed by Arthur Hopkins)

392

(1)

Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream (From The Examiner, January 21, 1816)

393

(2)

William Hazlitt

Two Productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Charles Kean, London; Peter Brook, Stratford-upon-Avon)

395

(3)

Review of Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream (From Shakespeare Quarterly)

398

(2)

Robert Speaight

Laurence Olivier as Henry V

400

(1)

From He That Plays the King

401

(4)

Kenneth Tynan

Titus (Directed by Julie Taymor)

405

(1)

Bibliography

406

(16)

Appendix: Shakespeare Resources on the Web

422

(8)

Index

430

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