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Re-appraises Shakespeare's early career, situating his writings and activities in their time, place, and cultural moment.
List of contents
Introduction. Beginning with Shakespeare Rory Loughnane and Andrew J. Power; 1. Shakespeare and the idea of early authorship Rory Loughnane; 2. Collaboration and Shakespeare's early career Will Sharpe; 3. The language and style of early Shakespeare Goran Stanivokuvic; 4. Shakespeare's early verse style: Titus Andronicus, Venus and Adonis, Arden of Faversham MacDonald P. Jackson; 5. Early Shakespeare, Chaucer, and narrative theory: Arden of Faversham and (the) Franklin's Tale Laurie Maguire; 6. Poetry, counsel and coercion in Shakespeare's early history plays Harriet Archer; 7. John Lyly and Shakespeare's early career Andy Kesson; 8. Spenser and Shakespeare: bards of a feather? Willy Maley; 9. Arden of Faversham, Richard Burbage, and the early Shakespeare canon Terri Bourus; 10. Boy parts in early Shakespeare Andrew J. Power; 11. The origins of Richard Duke of York John Jowett; 12. Early Shakespeare and the authorship of The Taming of the Shrew John V. Nance; 13. Who read what when? Gary Taylor; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.
About the author
Rory Loughnane is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. Recent studies include The Memory Arts in Renaissance England (Cambridge, 2016). He is an Associate Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare, editor of the Works of Cyril Tourneur for Revels Plays, and General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Marlowe.Andrew J. Power is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He is the editor of Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613 (2012) and of The Yearbook of English Studies (2014) special issue on 'Caroline Literature'. His forthcoming monograph is entitled Stages of Madness: Sin, Sickness and Seneca in Shakespearean Drama.
Summary
A re-appraisal of Shakespeare's early career by leading scholars, including essays about the idea of 'early Shakespeare', his early collaborators and rivals, and the burgeoning theatrical industry of the 1580s and early 1590s. With broad appeal for scholars and graduate students of Shakespeare, early modern drama and attribution studies.
