Recently added articles from Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England:
The presence of Africans in Elizabethan England and the performance of Titus Andronicus at Burley-on-the-Hill, 1595/96.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; Ungere, Gustav ... In 1594 Shakespeare confronted the Elizabethans with the dramatic figure of Aaron, a literate African trained in the classics. Shakespeare's characterization of Aaron presented a striking departure from the established discourse of black inferiority. The novelty was calculated, in the ...
"The Sanctuarie is become a plaiers stage": Chapel Stagings and Tudor "secular" drama.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; McCarthy, Jeanne H. ... WHEN Anthony Munday issued his oft-cited rebuke of players and theater in A Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies and Theatres (1580), the use of the church as a playing space received particular attention. While he railed against traveling household players who "are privileged to ...
Begging at the gate: Jack Straw and the acting out of popular rebellion.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; Schillinger, Stephen ... THE Life and Death of Jack Straw (1) is a short, anonymous, and rarely read history play from 1593 or 1594. (2) We know nothing of its authorship, little of its performance history, and even less of how audiences reacted to its performance, if it was performed at all. Extant copies of the ...
Foul papers, promptbooks, and Thomas Heywood's The Captives.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Purkis, James ... THE British Library catalogue describes folios 52 to 73 of MS Egerton 1994 as a "[p]lay in five acts, without title, in which the characters are Raphael, Treadway, Ashburne, Lord and Lady Averne, an abbat, etc. Apparently autograph; with corrections and passages marked for omission." Since ...
Women and crowds at the theater.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; Gurr, Andrew ... AUDIENCES at the early modern theaters from Shakespeare's time up to the closure of 1642 were different from modern spectators in two distinct ways. First, they behaved as crowds, not as individuals, and second the female element in their composition influenced their behavior more strongly ...
"Follow the money": sex, murder, print, and domestic tragedy.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Berek, Peter ... "FOLLOW the money," said the whistle-blower who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate story--or at least he did so in the movie version, All the President's Men. And the nickname the reporters gave to the tipster (eventually revealed as FBI official Mark Felt) ...
An illustration of traveling players in Franz Hartmann's early modern album amicorum.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Schlueter, June ... THE album amicorum flourished in German- (and Dutch-) speaking Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Begun in German universities, where students collected autographs of fellow students and professors, friendship albums, now in archives throughout Europe, stand as a Who's ...
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Long, William B. ... A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, James Shapiro. xxiv + 429. London and New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Pp. xxiv + 429. Cloth $27.95. Paperback: New York: Harper Perennial, 2006, $14.95. James Shapiro's A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 [British ...
Shakespeare's Marlowe: The Influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's Artistry.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Forker, Charles R. ... Shakespeare's Marlowe: The Influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's Artistry by Robert A. Logan. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. Pp. 251. $89.95. In this outrageously overpriced and somewhat inconveniently presented volume ...
Shakespeare and republicanism.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Hammill, Graham ... Shakespeare and Republicanism, by Andrew Hadfield. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 363. Hardback $80.00 In Shakespeare and Republicanism Andrew Hadfield argues two main points. The first is that between the execution of Mary and the ...
Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Tiffany, Grace ... Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England, by Julie Crawford. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. x + 270. Hardcover $50.00. In newly Reformed England, through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the popular ...
Anthony Munday and the Catholics.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Cox, John ... Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633, by Donna B. Hamilton. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xxxvi + 268. Cloth $94.95. In a work of careful historical reconstruction, Donna Hamilton has written what will surely be the definitive literary biography of Anthony Munday for a ...
Shakespeare's History Plays: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Walsh, Brian ... Shakespeare's History Plays: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad, edited by Ton Honselaars. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 287. Cloth $80.00. Ton Honselaars brings together twelve essays loosely themed around the reception, ...
Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Preiss, Richard ... Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication, by Zachary Lesser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii + 244. Cloth $75.00. As the intellectual and professional demands of academics grow increasingly onerous, one cannot help but read Renaissance Drama and the ...
Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Dawson, Anthony B. ... Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama, by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. vii + 184. Cloth $75.00 A contribution to the growing literature on memory in early modern studies, this book adopts a fresh perspective by focusing ...
Shakespeare, Memory and Performance.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Foakes, R.A. ... Shakespeare, Memory and Performance, Peter Holland, ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xx + 367. Cloth $90.00. One of my earliest memories of a Shakespeare performance spotlights a stunning treatment of a scene in Glen Byam Shaw's Macbeth with ...
Horrid Spectacle: Violation in the Theater of Early Modern England.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Detmer-Goebel, Emily ... Horrid Spectacle: Violation in the Theater of Early Modern England, by Deborah G. Burks. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 456. Hardcover $60.00. Violation is a concept that has recently appeared in the title of several works concerning early modern ...
Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Falco, Raphael ... Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity, by Alexander Leggatt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. ix + 228. Cloth $75.00; Paper $28.99. It has been a secret creed of my Shakespearean life to avoid Titus Andronicus. The play upsets me. It disturbs my ...
Magic on the Early English Stage.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Favila, Marina ... Magic on the Early English Stage, by Philip Butterworth. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Pp. ix + 295. Hardcover $85.00. Magic is a marvelous subject, literally. It's not surprising that the wonder of it, magic's promise and allure, held sway over much of medieval and early ...
Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Walsh, Brian ... Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama, Lukas Erne and Margaret Jane Kidnie, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv + 229. Cloth $70.00. The history of the book has been a hot subject in literary studies for several years now, and ...