Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

by Pitcher, John

• ISBN13: 9780838638057
• ISBN10: 0838638058
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Associated Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(2)
Notes on Contributors	11	(8)
Articles
Everyman, The Creation and The Passion: The Royal Shakespeare Company Medieval Season 1996--1997	19	(15)
Marion O'Connor
Cultural Poetics, or Historical Prose? The Places of the Stage	34	(26)
Alan Somerset
The Playwright's Prophecy: Robert Wilson's The Three Ladies of London and the ``Alienation'' of the English	60	(28)
Lloyd Edward Kermode
the Color of ``Honesty'': Ethics and courtly Pragmatism in Damon and Pithias	88	(26)
Andrew James Hartley
(Mis)diagnosing Memorial Reconstruction in John of Bordeaux	114	(15)
Laurie E. Maguire
Author v. Character in Early Modern Dramatic Authorship: The Example of Thomas Kyd and The Spanish Tragedy	129	(14)
Emma Smith
``The whole complection of Arcadia chang'd'': Samuel Daniel and Italian Lyrical Drama	143	(29)
Jason Lawrence
Jonson's Epicoene and the Complex Plot	172	(54)
Barry B. Adams
``But yet the lady, th'heir, enjoys the land'': Heraldry, Inheritance and Nat(ion)al Households in Jonson's The New Inn	226	(38)
Sheila M. Walsh
``You will crown him King that slew your King'': Lust's Dominion and Oliver Cromwell	264	(13)
Charles Cathcart
Reviews
John Russell Brown. William Shakespeare: Writing for Performance	277	(3)
Hugh M. Richmond
James C. Bulman, ed. Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance	280	(7)
Alan Armstrong
Joseph Candido, ed. King John: The Critical Tradition	287	(7)
Janet M. Spencer
William C. Carroll. Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare	294	(4)
Marcia A. McDonald
Bryan Crockett. The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England	298	(7)
Diana B. Altegoer
Annette Drew-Bear. Painted Faces on the Renaissance Stage: The Moral Significance of Face-Painting Conventions	305	(4)
Peter H. Greenfield
Richard Dutton, ed. A Midsummer Night's Dream (New Casebooks)	309	(7)
Joseph Candido
Minoru Fujita and Leonard Pronko, ed. Shakespeare East and West	316	(6)
Akiko Kusonoki
Andrew Gurr. The Shakespearian Playing Companies	322	(11)
Mary Bly
Laurie E. Maguire. Shakespearean Suspect Texts: The ``Bad'' Quartos and Their Contexts	333	(3)
Grace Ioppolo
Eric S. Mallian. Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England	336	(8)
Barbara Hodgdon
Louis Montrose. The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre	344	(8)
Paul Yachnin
W. R. Owens and Lizbeth Goodman. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon	352	(6)
Elizabeth Kraft
Edward Pechter. What Was Shakespeare? Renaissance Plays and Changing Critical Practice	358	(5)
Vance Adair
Edward Pechter, ed. Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare: Questions of Evidence	363	(6)
Marliss C. Desens
Paola Pugliatti. Shakespeare the Historian	369	(8)
Christy Desmet
Tetsuo Kishi, Roger Pringle, and Stanley Wells, ed. Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Tokyo, 1991	377	(6)
Philip C. McGuire
Frank Whigham. Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama	383	(8)
Michael Taylor
Index	391