A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays

by Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E.

• ISBN13: 9781405136082
• ISBN10: 1405136081
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.This companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.

Author Biography

Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is an editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (1997).

Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the Palgrave Literary Lives series.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	viii
Introduction	1	(3)
Shakespeare's Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception History	4	(23)
Bruce R. Smith
The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid's Metamorphoses in Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis	27	(19)
Dympna Callaghan
Shakespeare's Problem Plays and the Drama of His Time: Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure	46	(23)
Paul Yachnin
The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare's Theatre	69	(20)
Bruce Boehrer
Hymeneal Blood, Interchangeable Women, and the Early Modern Marriage Economy in Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well	89	(17)
Theodora A. Jankowski
Varieties of Collaboration in Shakespeare's Problem Plays and Late Plays	106	(23)
John Jowett
``What's in a Name?'' Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy	129	(21)
Barbara A. Mowat
Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher	150	(25)
Russ McDonald
Place and Space in Three Late Plays	175	(19)
John Gillies
The Politics and Technology of Spectacle in the Late Plays	194	(22)
David M. Bergeron
The Tempest in Performance	216	(24)
Diana E. Henderson
What It Feels Like For a Boy: Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis	240	(19)
Richard Rambuss
Publishing Shame: The Rape of Lucrece	259	(16)
Coppelia Kahn
The Sonnets: Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeare's Two Loves	275	(27)
Valerie Traub
The Two Party System in Troilus and Cressida	302	(14)
Linda Charnes
Opening Doubts Upon the Law: Measure for Measure	316	(17)
Karen Cunningham
``Doctor She'': Healing and Sex in All's Well That Ends Well	333	(15)
Barbara Howard Traister
``You not your child well loving'': Text and Family Structure in Pericles	348	(17)
Suzanne Gossett
``Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators'': Iconomachy and The Winter's Tale	365	(24)
Marion O'Connor
Cymbeline: Patriotism and Performance	389	(19)
Valerie Wayne
``Meaner Ministers'': Mastery, Bondage, and Theatrical Labor in The Tempest	408	(19)
Daniel Vitkus
Queens and the Structure of History in Henry VIII	427	(18)
Susan Frye
Mixed Messages: The Aesthetics of The Two Noble Kinsmen	445	(17)
Julie Sanders
Index	462