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This collection reflects the distinct methods and insights Stephen Booth has brought to the reading of Shakespeare for more than forty years. Together these essays suggest how his approach enhances the reading, playing, or teaching of Shakespeare in the years to come and suggest the enduring value of his work to Shakespeare scholarship.
List of contents
Introduction
Michael J. Collins
The Interpretive Fallacy
Mark Womack
What Passed wasn't Prologued: False Advertising in Romeo and Juliet
Brett Gamboa
Mutatis Non Mutandis: The Reading Mind and Its Autocorrect Function in The Rape of Lucrece
Nicholas Nace
On the Final Songs in Love's Labors Lost
Michael Goldman
The Second Part of Henry IV: Expectation and Disappointment
James Hirsh
Naughty Orators: the Knotty Discourse of All's Well that Ends Well
Ralph Alan Cohen
The Tragic Dimension in Shakespeare's Comedies
Jay L. Halio
Leonato and Beatrice at 5.4.97 of Much Ado About Nothing
Margaret C. Maurer
Mistakes were Made: Errata in Early Modern English Playbooks
Thomas Berger
Teaching Shakespeare's Sonnets the Boothian Way
Laurie Ellinghausen
Taught by a Teacher to Teach: A Personal History or What I Learned from Stephen Booth
Louisa Newlin
Go, Dog. Go!: A Lesson on the Pleasures of Language
Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
A Bibliography of the Work of Stephen Booth
Brett Gamboa and Michael J. Collins
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Michael J. Collins - Contributions by Thomas L. Berger; Ralph Alan Cohen; Laurie Ellinghausen; Michael Ellis-Tolaydo; Brett Gamboa; Michael Goldman; Jay L. Halio; James E. Hirsh; Margaret Maurer; Nicholas Nace; Louisa Newlin and Mark Womack
Summary
This collection reflects the distinct methods and insights Stephen Booth has brought to the reading of Shakespeare for more than forty years. Together these essays suggest how his approach enhances the reading, playing, or teaching of Shakespeare in the years to come and suggest the enduring value of his work to Shakespeare scholarship.
