Shakespeare Studies back issues from January 2002:
Foreword.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2002; ... SHAKESPEARE STUDIES is very pleased to offer in Volume XXX its second Symposium, "Mere Archaeology": Theater History Updates, conceived and organized by S. P. Cerasano, whose introductory essay reviews the major currents of thought regarding the material aspects of London theaters. Other ...
Introduction.(history and literary text)
Jan 01, 2002; ... "THE PAST," writes Michael Neill in the introduction to his important collection of essays, Putting History to the Question, "can be as eloquent in its troubling familiarity as it is taciturn in alterity and ... the business of historical criticism is to trade as tactfully as possible ...
Readers, evidence, and interdisciplinarity.(literary criticism)
Jan 01, 2002; ... AT CONFERENCES and other academic gatherings, I often face a question that reveals just how uneasy many academics remain about interdisciplinary work: "Do you think of yourself as a literary critic or an historian?" My answer is simple: I don't think about this at all. What interests me ...
Parliament and the theater of state: the construction of texts.(parliamentary papers)
Jan 01, 2002; ... SEEKING TO RECONSTRUCT and understand the past through its documents has provided scholars in all disciplines with one of their most difficult tasks. The selection of texts made by the historian or literary critic informs the reader of the nature of the inquiry as well as providing the ...
Afterlife.(literary criticism of 16th century poems)
Jan 01, 2002; ... ASKED TO COMMENT on how literary critics might best "use history" or "think historically" today, I will here attempt to illustrate a response to these questions by way of an engagement with a much-discussed and familiar text that is widely perceived to be ahistorical in its claims. Ben ...
The promise of history.(Historicism and literary criticism)
Jan 01, 2002; ... LITERARY CRITICS make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please. The less pleasing the literature's historical context (it used to be), the more prestigious the scholar. One knew genuine erudition by his unflagging patience, his technical expertise, the endless reserve ...
Atomic Shakespeare.(mentions of atoms in the plays of William Shakepeare)
Jan 01, 2002; ... FREDRIC JAMESON'S well-known injunction "Always historicize!," has long been the shibboleth of materialist literary critics. These days, however, the slogan is increasingly accompanied by calls to get "material" in a new way--by embracing physical objects as the stuff of history. (1) The ...
Introduction.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2002; ... E. K. CHAMBERS'S MONUMENTAL study, The Elizabethan Stage (1923), and G. E. Bentley's (equally monumental) sequel, The Jacobean and Caroline Stage (1941-68), set a precedent for mapping the early English theater; but Chambers's approach was not that which was commonly thought of as a ...
Hyper-revels in cyberspace.(theatrical history on the World Wide Web)
Jan 01, 2002; ... THIS JOINT ARTICLE describes the goals of the Records of Early English Drama (REED) Patrons, Performances and Playing Places Multimedia Research Tool, a project sustained by a grant, which we gratefully acknowledge, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. (1) ...
Archaeology update: four playhouses and the Bear Garden.
Jan 01, 2002; ... THIS ARTICLE AIMS to provide a brief update on archaeological activity on the sites of London's Tudor and Stuart playhouses. It is intended that it will provide readers with an understanding of the current situation with regard to archaeology and the playhouses and to create a wider ...
Early London pageantry and theater history firsts.
Jan 01, 2002; ... IN 1392, IN A RECONCILIATION with the City of London after a quarrel involving money, Richard II and his queen Anne of Bohemia made a triumphal formal entry into the city. For the entry the London authorities provided not only formal ceremonies, music, and gifts but also elaborate street ...
John Brayne and his other brother-in-law.(Elizabethan theater builder John Brayne's mortgage dispute with Edward Stowers)
Jan 01, 2002; ... WHEN IN 1579 John Brayne and his brother-in-law, James Burbage, mortgaged their playhouse in Shoreditch, the Theatre, Bayne had just resolved a quarrel with another brother-in-law over another mortgage. He was Edward Stowers, a blacksmith, who explained his side of the quarrel in a lawsuit ...
Domestical matters.(financial management of 16th Century theatrical backer Philip Henslowe)
Jan 01, 2002; ... A PROPOSED REISSUE of my edition of Henslowe's Diary (1961) (1) by Cambridge University Press led me to work through it again, recalling the bad press Henslowe has continued to suffer. W. W. Greg thought of Henslowe as "an illiterate moneyed man ... who regarded art as a subject for ...
Sir John Astley and court culture.(Master of the Revels, 1622)(Biography)
Jan 01, 2002; ... SIR JOHN ASTLEY, the man who became Master of the Revels in 1622, and (for reasons we do not fully understand) deputized the post to Sir Henry Herbert soon thereafter, has not left many traces of his career that have so far been discovered. His father, Master of the Jewel House to Queen ...
Two playhouses, both alike in dignity.(King's Men performances at Blackfriars and Globe)
Jan 01, 2002; ... JAMES WRIGHT, in Historia Histrionica (1699), invents a dialogue between two gentlemen, Lovewit and Truman, who reminisce about the good old days at the playhouse. (1) Truman answers Lovewit's query about the number of playing companies in former times by saying: <Pre>Before ...
Playhouses make strange bedfellows: the case of Aaron and Martin.(the petition of Aaron Holland and Martin Slater to erect a playhouse)(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2002; ... <Pre>They tooke from me the vse of mine owne house --King Lear Why then ile [retro]fit you --The Refurbisher's Tragedy </Pre> THE DOCUMENT I WANT to consider dates from 1605 or 1606. At some point during those years an order was apparently issued by the privy ...
Some recent dramatic manuscript studies.
Jan 01, 2002; ... THE STUDY OF EXTANT English Renaissance poetry, prose, and dramatic manuscripts is once again flourishing. Spurred on by the frequent reluctance of "history of the book" scholars to grapple with the role of manuscripts in the transmission, and history, of a text, manuscript scholars are ...
"Crack'd crowns" and counterfeit sovereigns: the crisis of value in 1 Henry IV.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2002; ... <Pre>Money has the advantage of presenting me immediately the lurid face of thesocial relation of value; it shows me value right away as exchange,commanded and organized for exploitation ... money has only one face, thatof the boss. --Antonio Negri </Pre> A ...
"Awake remembrance of these valiant dead": Henry V and the politics of the English history play.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2002; ... "A PROPAGANDA-PLAY on National Unity: heavily orchestrated for the brass" was how A. P. Rossiter summed up Henry V in 1954. (1) The assumption that this play is complicit with the promonarchical, nationalist rhetoric of the Chorus, and with the particular myth of Englishness it propounds, ...
Anachronistic Italy: cultural alliances and national identity in Cymbeline.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2002; ... WHEN THE TWO PRINCELY BROTHERS, Guiderius and Arviragus, first appear in Shakespeare's Cymbeline, they evoke geography and eating habits to lament their own potential barbarism. Bemoaning that they have lived their whole lives in a "pinched cave" in Wales, Arviragus complains, "We have ...
A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... Edited by Dympna C. Callaghan Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 2000 The idea of a feminist companion to Shakespeare is an attractive one, and it has resulted in an attractive volume, pleasingly substantial and handsomely packaged. Dympna Callaghan sets the tone strongly in ...
Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Kent Cartwright Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 Kent Cartwright's Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century is a detailed and erudite volume that provides an intriguing reassessment of English drama in the century preceding Shakespeare ....
Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Frances E. Dolan Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999 If Frances Dolan had not called her first book Dangerous Familiars, she might well have used that title for her new effort, Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture. Both books concern ...
Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Katherine Eggert Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000 This is a big, impressive book, rich in implications for how we read the canon--how we conceive the gendered entitlements that underpin early modern authorship and conceptions of poetic and political power ....
Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... Edited by Peter Erickson and Clark Hulse Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000 This is an extremely ambitious collection of essays by some of the most distinguished scholars working in the field of early modern English studies. Editors Peter Erickson and Clark ...
Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Jonathan Goldberg Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997 A characteristically elegant work, Jonathan Goldberg's Desiring Women Writing offers what might be taken to be a lesbian reading of some writings by women, or writings whose authorship may or may not be a ...
The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited by Bruce Gordon and Peter Marshall Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 Death in England: An Illustrated History Edited by Peter C. Jupp and Clare Gittings New Brunswick, NJ: ...
Shakespeare's Noise.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Kenneth Gross Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001 "This book pursues a vision of the work of words in Shakespeare's plays" (1). So begins Kenneth Gross's remarkable exploration of "violent and disorderly forms of speaking: slander, defamation, insult, ...
Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Graham L. Hammill Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000 In Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon, Graham Hammill has offered a demanding, intensely absorbing, and at times elusive series of readings in early modern culture, with the aim of ...
Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Martin Harries Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000 In what has become a controversial essay, Stephen Greenblatt, in defence of his own, often maligned and sometimes misunderstood critical practice, admitted: "If I do not approach works of art in a spirit of ...
Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Richard Helgerson Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000 What do the following things have in common: Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Dutch genre painting, Spanish Golden Age peasant drama, Moliere's Tartuffe? On the surface one might say, ...
A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Cynthia Herrup Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999 "No amount of archival digging and no special slip of parchment will ever tell us whether the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven was monster or victim or both; but that is not, in fact, the historian's best question" ...
"The Tempest" and Its Travels.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... Edited by Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000 To precisely chart all of The Tempest's performative and critical travails one would need to muster an army of Mercators, but Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman, in "The Tempest" ...
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 This erudite, substantial, and engaging book scrupulously documents how Renaissance attitudes toward cloth and clothing sharply differed from our own. In the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
Shakespeare After Theory.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By David Scott Kastan New York and London: Routledge, 1999 The nub of David Scott Kastan's latest book is to be found in the introduction and the opening chapter, from which the volume takes its title. "The great age of theory is over" (31), proclaims Kastan, so the ...
Shakespeare Jungle Fever: National-Imperial Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... by Arthur L. Little Jr. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001 Arthur Little Jr.'s Shakespeare Jungle Fever: National-Imperial Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice is a study of "the bodies of Lavinia, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra" (21). Each body--a "white female, ...
Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... Edited by Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2000 Maternal Measures is a large collection of small essays. By large I mean in total size (comparatively speaking these days) and generosity: the collection includes twenty essays, all of which situate ...
Material London, ca. 1600.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... Edited by Lena Cowen Orlin Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000 This impressive collection of well-matched, well-crafted essays opens with particularly apt illustrations: first, "A Table of the chief-fest Cities, and Townes in England" (1600), that admits the ...
The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject and Early Modern Culture.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Christopher Pye Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000 Christopher Pye's The Vanishing is a welcome contribution, in Shakespeare studies, to the debate concerning early modern subjectivity. Situating itself in relation to New Historicism and cultural materialism, the book ...
Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Katherine Rowe Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999 What do we get when we consider the severed hand as a literary trope over the last five centuries? As Katherine Rowe's fascinating book reveals, we get a new grasp on notions of agency, identity, legal, political, ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... Edited by James Schiffer New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999 Shakespeare's Sonnets follows a different--and more useful--agenda than the announced program of the Garland series. Not tasked to do the impossible--provide a representative sampling both of the most ...
The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Barbara Howard Traister Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001 For reasons that require no explanation, readers are endlessly fascinated by the alchemist-magicians of early modern Europe. So, clearly, were our theatrical predecessors, who enshrined them in such ...
Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Luke Wilson Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000 The relations of law to dramatic literature have preoccupied literary critics for some time now. First addressed in terms of reciprocal influence, they have more recently been studied for their illustrations of power ...
Lanyer, a Renaissance Woman Poet.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2002; ... By Susanne Woods Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999 This important study of the poet Aemilia Lanyer significantly advances a major scholarly enterprise of the past two decades--the recovery and analysis of literary and nonliterary texts by early modern women ...