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9780312100759

The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction With Documents

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    9780312100759

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    0312100752

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-02-01
  • Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
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Summary

Providing a unique combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents, "The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare" introduces students to the topics most important to the study of Shakespeare in their full historical and cultural context.

Table of Contents

PREFACE VII(4)
TO THE READER XI
Introduction 1(10)
Shakespeare in Our Time 1(2)
The Uses of a Companion 3(1)
The Illustrations and Documents 4(3)
Three Troublesome Topics: Terminology, Modernization, and Money 7(1)
A Final Word 8(3)
CHAPTER 1 Shakespeare, "Shakespeare," and the Problem of Authorship
11(29)
Early Life
12(2)
London: The First Decade
14(5)
London: Maturity
19(2)
Retirement
21(3)
The Anti-Stratfordians
24(2)
What Is an Author?
26(3)
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
29(11)
The House Known as Shakespeare's Birthplace
29(1)
Record of Shakespeare's Baptism
29(2)
Map of Stratford-upon-Avon (Eighteenth Century)
31(1)
Francis Meres, From Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury
32(1)
The Royal License for Shakespeare's Company
33(1)
Detail from the "Agas" Map of London (With Shakespeare's Lodging Indicated)
33(2)
John Ward, Vicar of Stratford, From His Diary
35(1)
Shakespeare's Will
35(4)
George Frisbee, From Edward de Vere, A Great Elizabethan (The Oxfordian Challenge)
39(1)
CHAPTER 2 Performances, Playhouses, and Players
40(34)
Going to a Play, Circa 1595
40(5)
The Playhouses
45(6)
The Companies
51(3)
The Theater and the Authorities
54(4)
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
58(16)
Map Showing the Playhouses in Shakespeare's Time
58(1)
Henry Peacham, Sketch of Titus Andronicus
59(1)
Inventory of Theatrical Costumes (From Henslowe's Papers)
60(3)
Remains of the Rose Playhouse
63(1)
Two Plans of the Rose Playhouse
64(1)
C. Walter Hodges, Illustration of the Second Globe
65(1)
Copy of De Witt's Sketch of the Swan Playhouse
66(1)
Wenceslas Hollar, Detail from Long View of London
67(1)
Philip Henslowe, Log of Plays from His Diary
68(3)
Testimony about a Performance of Richard II
71(1)
Record of King James's Payment to the King's Men
71(1)
Edward Alleyn, Letter to His Wife
72(2)
CHAPTER 3 "What Is Your Text?"
74(26)
What Is a Shakespearean Text?
74(3)
From Pen to Press: The Printing of Renaissance Plays
77(4)
Illustration of the Folding and Printing Process
80(1)
Shakespeare's Plays in Print
81(5)
Some Examples of Textual Instability
86(3)
Shakespeare's Texts and the General Reader
89(2)
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
91(9)
Facsimile of a Part of the Play Script of Sir Thomas More
91(1)
Title Page of Titus Andronicus (First Quarto)
92(1)
Title Page and Catalogue of the First Folio
93(2)
Illustration of a Seventeenth-Century Printing Press
95(1)
Facsimile of the Last Page of King Lear (First Quarto)
96(1)
A Comparison of the Work of Compositors A and B on the 1623 Folio
97(1)
Facsimile of "To be or not to be" from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (First Quarto)
98(1)
Facsimile of "To be or not to be" from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1623 Folio)
99(1)
CHAPTER 4 "I Loved My Books": Shakespeare's Reading
100(51)
Shakespeare and the Classics
102(2)
Major Influences
104(5)
Indirect Sources
109(4)
Shakespeare's Favorites
113(5)
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
118(33)
Edward Hall, From The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York
118(1)
From A Mirror for Magistrates
119(3)
Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio, From Gli Hecatommithi (The Principal Source for Othello)
122(1)
From the Geneva Bible
123(5)
From The Book of Common Prayer (The Order for the Burial of the Dead)
128(3)
John Foxe, From Acts and Monuments
131(5)
A Moralized Ballad
136(1)
Sir William Strachey, From A True Reportory of the Wreck and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates (A Source for The Tempest)
137(3)
Christopher Marlowe, From Tamburlaine the Great
140(1)
Sir Philip Sidney, Two Sonnets from Astrophil and Stella
140(1)
Raphael Holinshed, From The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland
141(1)
Plutarch, From Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Translated by Sir Thomas North)
142(1)
Ovid, From Metamorphoses
143(4)
Arthur Golding
Ovid, From Metamorphoses
147(4)
Rolfe Humphries
CHAPTER 5 Theater a la Mode: Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama
151(29)
Comedy
153(4)
Tragedy
157(5)
History
162(4)
Romance
166(3)
Mixed Modes
169(2)
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
171(9)
Sir Philip Sidney, From The Defense of Poesy
171(1)
Aristotle, From Poetics
172(4)
Title Page of Richard III (First Quarto)
176(2)
William Lambarde, From His Notes of a Conversation with Queen Elizabeth I about Richard II
178(1)
John Fletcher, From His Preface to The Faithful Shepherdess
178(1)
Thomas Rymer, From A Short View of Tragedy
179(1)
CHAPTER 6 "To What End Are All These Words?": Shakespeare's Dramatic Language
180(41)
Early Modern English
182(4)
Rhetoric
186(2)
Wordplay
188(3)
The Forms of Dramatic Language
191(7)
Language as Theme
198(4)
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
202(19)
Thomas Wilson, From The Art of Rhetoric
202(2)
Richard Reynolds, From The Foundation of Rhetoric
204(1)
Roger Ascham, From The Schoolmaster
205(2)
John Hoskyns, From Directions for Speech and Style
207(2)
George Puttenham, From The Art of English Poesy
209(6)
Baldassare Castiglione, From The Book of the Courtier
215(4)
Chart of the Relative Proportions of Poetry and Prose in Shakespeare's Plays
219(2)
CHAPTER 7 Town and Country: Life in Shakespeare's England
221(30)
London
223(3)
The Suburbs
226(1)
The Countryside
227(3)
Rural Life
230(3)
The Daily Routine
233(1)
Clothing
233(2)
Getting and Spending
235(3)
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
238(13)
William Harrison, From The Description of England (The Conditions of English Inns and Overnight Travel)
238(1)
John Stow, From Survey of London (The Location of Tradesmen in London)
239(1)
William Harrison, From The Description of England (Restrictions against Eating Meat)
240(1)
Thomas Platter, From Travels in England (The Thames River)
241(1)
Lupold von Wedel, From Journey through England and Scotland (A Visit to the Bearbaiting Arena)
241(1)
John Stow, From Survey of London (Ordinances Concerning Brothels)
242(1)
Thomas Nashe, From Christ's Tears over Jerusalem (The Brothels of Suburban London)
242(2)
Gervase Markham, From The English Husbandman (Rural Domestic Architecture and Interior Design)
244(2)
Fynes Moryson, From An Itinerary (The Enclosure of Farmlands)
246(1)
Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, From The Book of Husbandry (What Works a Wife Should Do)
246(2)
William Harrison, From The Description of England (Dining Customs)
248(1)
William Harrison, From The Description of England (Fashion)
249(2)
CHAPTER 8 Men and Women: Gender, Family, Society
251(46)
The Situation of Women
251(4)
Patriarchy
255(4)
Primogeniture
259(3)
Marriage and Money
262(3)
Family Life
265(5)
The Social Structure
270(3)
Conclusion: The Body Politic
273(2)
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
275(22)
Aristotle, From Historia Animalium
275(1)
Sir Robert Filmer, From Patriarcha, or The Natural Power of Kings
276(2)
An Homily of the State of Matrimony
278(9)
William Gouge, From Of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises
287(1)
Sir Thomas Smith, From De Republica Anglorum: The Manner of Government or Policy of the Realm of England (Of Children)
288(1)
George Whetstone, From An Heptameron of Civil Discourses (Household Laws to Keep the Married in Love, Peace, and Amity)
289(1)
Ben Johnson, "On My First Son"
290(1)
Excerpts from Conduct Books
290(1)
Sir Edward Coke, From The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (Of Buggery or Sodomy)
291(2)
Queen Elizabeth I, List of Royal Proclamations, 1596-1601
293(2)
Queen Elizabeth I, Royal Proclamation against Vagabonds and Unlawful Assemblies
295(1)
Queen Elizabeth I, Edict Arranging for the Expulsion from England of Negroes and Blackamoors
296(1)
CHAPTER 9 Politics and Religion: Early Modern Ideologies
297(45)
An Absolute Monarchy?
298(2)
Councillors
300(2)
The Monarchs
302(7)
The "Ermine Portrait" of Elizabeth I
302(1)
Portrait of James I, by Paul van Somer
303(6)
The Church
309(3)
The Ideology of Order
312(3)
Shakespeare's Theater and the Problem of Authority
315(3)
The Stage and Its Opponents
318(2)
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
320(22)
Sir Thomas Smith, From De Republica Anglorum: The Manner of Government or Policy of the Realm of England (Of Parliament and the Monarchy)
320(2)
King James I, From A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at Whitehall
322(3)
King James I, Secret Letter to Sir Robert Cecil
325(1)
King James I, Letter to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
326(1)
Sir John Harington, Letter Describing the Revels at King James's Court
326(2)
King James I, From Basilikon Doron
328(2)
Simon Forman, From His Diary (On a Dream about an Encounter with Queen Elizabeth)
330(1)
John Field and Thomas Wilcox (?), From An Admonition to the Parliament
331(3)
From An Homily against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion
334(5)
Sir Thomas Elyot, From The Book Named the Governor
339(1)
Philip Stubbes, From The Anatomy of Abuses
340(2)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 342(15)
INDEX 357

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