Shakespeare Text And Theater Essays in Honor of Jay L. Halio

by Halio, Jay L.; Potter, Lois; Kinney, Arthur F.

• ISBN13: 9780874136999
• ISBN10: 0874136997
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-08-01
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	7	(2)
Preface and Acknowledgments	9	(8)
Part One: Texts	17	(92)
The First Folio: Where Should We Be Without It?	17	(16)
STANLEY WELLS
"All we like sheep ..."	33	(12)
SUSAN SNYDER
Still Babbling of Green Fields: Mr. Greenfields and the Twenty-third Psalm	45	(17)
GEORGE WALTON WILLIAMS
"So quick bright things come to confusion": or, What Else Was A Midsummer Night's Dream About?	62	(1)
TOM CLAYTON
"The gift is small, / The will is all": Musings for Jay Halio	62	(47)
DONALD W. FOSTER
Part Two: Performances	109	(120)
A Polish Gentleman's Visit to London Theaters in 1820-1821	109	(11)
JERZY LIMON
How Revolutionary is Cross-cast Shakespeare? A Look at Five Contemporary Productions	120	(16)
GRACE TIFFANY
Strands Too Far Remote: A Note on Translating the Political and the Politics of Translation	136	(10)
AVRAHAM OZ
Beginning with Branagh: Romeo and Juliet, Hammersmith, 1986	146	(17)
RUSSELL JACKSON
To Know a Shakespeare Character	163	(7)
MARVIN ROSENBERG
The Readiness Was All: Ian Charleson and Richard Eyre's Hamlet	170	(13)
RICHARD ALLAN DAVISON
Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: The Film	183	(12)
H. R. COURSEN
Cori-Ollie-anus: Shakespeare's Last Tragedy and American Politics in 1988	195	(14)
R. B. PARKER
Staging The Tempest as an Alchemical Experiment in the Theater	209	(20)
PEGGY MUNOZ SIMONDS
Part Three: Text and Performance	229	(103)
Stage Directions as Evidence: The Question of Provenance	229	(19)
ALAN C. DESSEN
Show Business: The Editor in the Theater	248	(18)
JILL L. LEVENSON
"Oh be some other name": Translating Romeo and Juliet	266	(19)
LAURIE E. MAGUIRE
Humor Out of Breath: Francis Gentleman and the Henry IV Plays	285	(13)
LOIS POTTER
Editing Informed by Performance History: The Double Ending of Troilus and Cressida	298	(12)
DAVID BEVINGTON
Two Lears: Notes for an Actor	310	(10)
ALEXANDER LEGGATT
Staging The Comedy of Errors	320	(12)
ARTHUR F. KINNEY
A Checklist: Jay L. Halio	332	(2)
BARBARA SILVERSTEIN
Contributors	334	(4)
Index to Works by, or Attributed to William Shakespeare	338	(2)
General Index	340