Recently added articles from Shakespeare Studies:
Foreword.
Jan 01, 2008; ... VOLUME 36 OF Shakespeare Studies is pleased to continue its tradition of Forums on theoretical, historical, and critical issues of importance to scholars of early modern literature and culture. In this issue, a forum entitled "The Return of the Author," organized by Patrick Cheney, ...
Introduction.(FORUM: The Return of the Author)
Jan 01, 2008; ... THE OCCASION FOR THIS FORUM is indeed the "return of the author" in Shakespeare studies. I'm grateful to the editors, Susan Zimmerman and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr., for the opportunity to convene ten distinguished scholars who represent a variety of viewpoints on the topic. While ...
Reconsidering Shakespearean authorship.(William Shakespeare's Sonnet 23)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET 23, which I quote from the edition by G. Blakemore Evans, (1) constitutes an eloquent comment on Shakespearean authorship but also on the traditional resistance to the view of Shakespeare as a self-conscious, literary author: <Pre>As an unperfect actor on ...
"To think these trifles some-thing": Shakespearean playbooks and the claims of authorship.(authorship of William Shakespeare's plays)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... --Who's that? --No one. The author. --Shakespeare in Love AUTHORSHIP MATTERS. It is not merely that we want to know who has written what we read (think of the recent excitement over the outing of Laura Albert as "J. T. LeRoy") or sometimes who has written ...
Shakespeare as coauthor.(William Shakespeare and coauthorship in classical theater)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... TRACING THE HANDS of other writers in the plays that have been traditionally ascribed to Shakespeare only has yielded a picture of Shakespeare's career as a coauthor that is strikingly at odds with current histories of authorship in Renaissance English drama generally. According to these ...
Early modern authorship in 2007.(William Shakespeare and authorship in plays)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... MY GOODNESS. Reading Jeffrey Knapp's "What is a Co-Author?" one would think that scholars who have argued for a collaborative notion of authorship in late sixteenth-century England simply got all of their facts wrong. Attacking the claim that single authorship was "not the norm," Knapp ...
"Our bending author": Shakespeare takes a bow.(FORUM: The Return of the Author)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... It hapned, that as they passed throow one street, Don Quixote looked up, and saw written upon a doore in great Letters, "Heere are Bookes printed," which pleased him wonderously; for till then he had never seen any Presse; and he desired to know the manner of it. --Cervantes, ...
Shakespeare, the classics, and the forms of authorship.(William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... THE PRESENT FORUM aims to explore the author's return to Shakespeare studies and, as I take it, the question of whether such a critical turn represents a step forward or backward. I wish to approach the issue from the perspective of the classics, with the aim of historicizing some ...
The author and/or the critic.(authorship of William Shakespeare's wornks, and literary criticism)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... WE SPEAK OF THE "Return of the Author" but of course, the author never left. Michel Foucault's essay in which he called attention to the "author-function" as serving to "characterize a certain mode of being of discourse" and as "the principle of thrift in the proliferation of meaning" ...
Coauthors and closed minds.(FORUM: The Return of the Author)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ONE OF THE DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS of human knowledge is its capacity for growth. As Ben Jonson put it, in a poem of self-examination and self-criticism, <Pre> Where do'st thou carelesse lie Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge, that sleepes, doth die;...
"Not one clear item but an indefinite thing which is in parts of uncertain authenticity".(Shakespearean authorship evaluated)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... WHY ARE THERE MULTIPLE VERSIONS of SO many (nearly half) of Shakespeare's plays? For me, that is the most intriguing, frustrating, and perplexing question at the heart of any meaningful Shakespearean authorship debate, because it incorporates all the other important questions at a ...
Shakespeare is an author: an essentialist view.(FORUM: The Return of the Author)(William Shakespeare)
Jan 01, 2008; ... For me, no other choice was possible. --Louis, the Vampire IF I WERE TO SAY "Shakespeare is the author of all thirty-seven plays in the collected edition known as the First Folio," what question would I be answering? Every now and then, when I tell someone at a ...
Hamlet as mourning-play: a Benjaminesque interpretation.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING and variously interpreted masterworks of twentieth-century critical theory is Walter Benjamin's 1928 Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiele, translated into English by John Osborne as The Origin of German Tragic Drama. (1) However, neither the examples Benjamin ...
"The verie paines of hell": Doctor Faustus and the controversy over Christ's descent.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... IN THE DEDICATION to his treatise on the creedal position that Christ descended to hell after the Crucifixion, Adam Hill warned that "there is like to be ... great strife about the true vnderstanding of this Article in England," and that such conflict would give divines an "occasion [to] ...
"O for a muse of fire": Henry V and plotted self-exculpation.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Whether this was true that so he spake, as one that gaue too much credit to foolish prophesies & vaine tails, or whether it was fained, as in such cases it commonlie happeneth, we leaue it to the aduised reader to iudge. But yet to speake a truth, by his proceedings, after he ...
Eating Richard II.(study of William Shakespeare's historical plays)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... IN RICHARD II SHAKESPEARE is as unsystematic in his use of history as he is systematic in his use of poetic imagery and sustained metaphor. Students of the play have been efficient in developing critical vocabularies that express the latter fact and obscure the former. Madeline Doran noted ...
The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons By Oliver Arnold Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 The nature of parliamentary representation in early modern England has long been a defining idea for historians ...
Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man By Paula Blank Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006 And now I have only one favor more to ask (else injustice to me may perhaps imperil the business itself)--that men will consider well how far, upon that ...
Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England By Gina Bloom Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2O07 Gina Bloom's Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England is on very interesting terrain. It ...
Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare By Angus Fletcher Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007 The publication of a new book by Angus Fletcher is indeed an occasion, but not one to which it is easy to rise as a respondent. One wants to ...