Rematerializing Shakespeare Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage

by Reynolds, Bryan; West, William

• ISBN13: 9781403991201
• ISBN10: 1403991200
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection does not offer a single theoretical stance on any of the various forms of critical materialism, but rather demonstrates that the materiality of Shakespeare is multidimensional and consists of the imagination, the intended, and the desired. An all-star line-up of contributors include Kate McLuskie, Terence Hawkes, Jean Howard, David Scott Kastan, Catherine Belsey and Doug Bruster. http://www.bryanreynolds.com

Author Biography

Bryan Reynolds is Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

William N. West is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University, USA. He has taught previously at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Stanford University, the Universities of California at Berkeley and Nevada at Reno.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	x
Notes on Contributors	xi
Introduction Shakespearean Emergences: Back from Materialisms to Transversalisms and Beyond	1	(16)
Bryan Reynolds & William N. West
Part I The Form and Pressure of the Time: Popular and Unpopular Traditions	17	(56)
1 'Strike All that Look Upon With Marvel': Theatrical and Theological Wonder in The Winter's Tale	19	(16)
Huston Diehl
2 Performance and Urban Space in Shakespeare's Rome, or 'S.P.Q.L.'	35	(18)
D.J. Hopkins
3 Shakespeare's Little Boys: Theatrical Apprenticeship and the Construction of Childhood	53	(22)
Catherine Belsey
Part II What's the Matter? Revisions and Reversions in Pen and Voice	73	(86)
4 Rematerializing Shakespeare's Intertheatricality: The Occidental/Oriental Halimpsest	75	(20)
Jonathan Gil Harris
5 The Politics of Shakespeare's Prose	95	(20)
Douglas Bruster
6 Mercutio's Bad Language	115	(15)
William N. West
7 Nanti Everything	130	(9)
Terence Hawkes
8 Authority and the Early Modern Theatre: Representing Robert Weimann	139	(22)
John Drakakis
Part III Creatures Sitting at a Play: The Authority and Representation of Audiences	159	(67)
9 Homo Clausus at the Theatre	161	(25)
David Hillman
10 Figuring the Consumer for Early Modern Drama	186	(21)
Kathleen McLuskie
11 The Delusion of Critique: Subjunctive Space, Transversality, and the Conceit of Deceit in Hamlet	207	(19)
Anthony Kubiak & Bryan Reynolds
Index	226