Early Modern Drama in Performance - Essays in Honor of Lois Potter

This collection brings together essays on the topics of Shakespeare, theater history, and early English drama in performance by scholars influenced by the pioneering work of Lois Potter.

List of contents

Introduction by Darlene Farabee, Mark Netzloff, and Bradley D. Ryner
Chapter 1: Dramatic Verse and Early Modern Playgoers in Marlowe's Time by Roslyn L. Knutson
Chapter 2: The Usurer's Theatrical Body: Refiguring Profit in The Jew of Malta and The Blind Beggar of Alexandria by Bradley D. Ryner
Chapter 3: Theater of Anatomy: The Tragedy of Hoffman by Peter Hyland
Chapter 4: 'Know you this ring?': Metonymic Functions of a Prop by Ann Thompson and John O. Thompson
Chapter 5: Editing and Staging The Revenger's Tragedy: Three Problems by Alan C. Dessen
Chapter 6: The 'most unsavoury similes' and Henry IV, Part One by Darlene Farabee
Chapter 7: Shakespeare's Cognitive Vision by Arthur Kinney
Chapter 8: Shakespeare's Conception of Tragedy: The Middle Tragedies by Jay L. Halio
Chapter 9: Shakespeare or not Shakespeare?: The propogation of the text in Europe through J. F. Ducis's 'Imitations' by Michèle Willems
Chapter 10:Un/natural Perspective: Viola on the late nineteenth-century stage by Virginia Mason Vaughan
Chapter 11: Reading, Recitation, and Entertainments: The Dunedin Shakespeare Club, 1877-1956
by Evelyn Tribble
Chapter 12: The power of Shakespeare's word in twentieth-century Prague by Zden¿k St¿íbrný Chapter 13: Showtime: Temporality and the Video Archive of Julius Caesar at the RSC
by Andrew Hartley

About the author

Darlene Farabee is associate professor in the English Department at the University of South Dakota.
Mark Netzloff is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Bradley D. Ryner is associate professor of English at Arizona State University.

Summary

This collection brings together essays on the topics of Shakespeare, theater history, and early English drama in performance by scholars influenced by the pioneering work of Lois Potter.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Ryner Netzloff
• Assisted by: Darlene Farabee (Editor), Farabee Darlene (Editor), Mark Netzloff (Editor), Netzloff Mark (Editor), Bradley Ryner (Editor), Bradley D. Ryner (Editor), Ryner Bradley D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2014
• EAN: 9781611495126
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-512-6
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Films, cinema, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Film, TV, Stage;Literary Studies;Shakespeare Studies