Shakespeare Studies back issues from January 2003:
Foreword.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2003; ... SHAKESPEARE STUDIES is very pleased to offer in Volume XXXI a new feature, the first in an annual series of articles on "Early Modern Drama around the World." In this series, specialists in drama performed in other areas of the globe during Shakespeare's time will discuss the state of ...
Preface.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2003 ... THE EDITOR UNDER THIS RUBRIC Shakespeare Studies presents the first in an annual series of essays on drama as practiced in various regions of the world between ca. 1500 and 1700. These pieces have been commissioned to speak to the scholarly interests of readers who may be ...
A survey of scholarship on late Ming drama.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2003; ... THIS PAPER COVERS the state of scholarship on late Ming drama, a period that coincided roughly with the Elizabethan (1558-1603), Jacobean (1603-25), and Caroline (1625-42) theater of Renaissance England. (1) Scholarly writings on Ming drama (1368-1644) are fewer than those on the zaju ...
Drama in Golden-Age Spain: the state of the art.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2003; ... THE ESTABLISHMENT in the 1580s of two permanent public theaters or corrales de comedias in Madrid signalled the rapidly growing popularity in Spain of a new, if somewhat synthetic dramatic genre, the comedia nueva. Their appearance marked the effective beginning of the great age of Spanish ...
Is the Renaissance an aesthetic category?(The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 & Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 By William J. Bouwsma New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000 Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment By Giuseppe Mazzotta Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001 I Intellectual history flourishes in ...
Imagination in history.(Practicing New Historicism & Hamlet in Purgatory)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Practicing New Historicism By Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000 Hamlet in Purgatory By Stephen Greenblatt Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001 "History," the word, is Greek in origin; ...
Portia and the Prince of Morocco.(The Merchant of Venice)(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2003; ... IT IS NOT UNUSUAL for critics to view Shakespeare's Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice merely as an exotic figure, creating, in the words of Eldred Jones, a "from-the-ends-of-the-earth atmosphere." He may indeed even enrich Portia's wooing pageant as a kind of Marlovian leftover, ...
Black Hamlet: battening on the moor.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2003; ... <Pre>Could you on this faire mountaine leaue to feede,And batten on this Moore ...? </Pre> IN THE CLOSET SCENE of Hamlet, the prince of Denmark forces his mother to look upon the portraits of her husbands in lines that draw the familiar contrast between the two, the second ...
Deforming sources: literary antecedents and their traces in Much Ado About Nothing.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2003; ... IN ONE OF HER most verbally expansive moments in Much Ado About Nothing, Hero directs her attendant "gentlewomen," Ursula and Margaret, on where to have Beatrice positioned to overhear the "honest slanders" and other misrepresentations through which Beatrice is to be led to believe that ...
"Your actions are my dreams": sleepy minds in Shakespeare's last plays.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2003; ... IN MAKING HIS famous declaration "We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep" (4.1.156-58), (1) Prospero has long been thought to be saying goodbye to his magical powers with an analogy between the insubstantiality of the masque for Ferdinand ...
Writings by Early Modern Women.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Edited by Peter Beal and Margaret J. M. Ezell English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, Volume 9 London: The British Library, 2000. Writings by Early Modern Women continues the English Manuscript Studies tradition of providing first-rate essays about manuscripts and manuscript ...
Shakespeare and the Poets' War.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... By James P. Bednarz New York: Columbia University Press, 2001 In his Shakespeare and the Poets' War, James Bednarz shows himself as feisty as the dueling writers--Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Dekker, and William Shakespeare--whose combative relations he paints. Bednarz pulls ...
Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance & The Absence of Grace: Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000; and The Absence of Grace: Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000 By Harry Berger Jr. Montaigne ...
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2000 Lynn Enterline begins this book with an exhilaratingly intelligent and subtle reading of what she calls "misfirings" in Ovid's treatment of bodily violence, voice, and poetic composition in the Metamorphoses. Looking at what happens to ...
Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Edited by Valeria Finucci and Kevin Brownlee Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001 Generation and Degeneration undertakes an ambitious, wide-ranging, and deeply comparative project. The essays in this collection explore discourses of genealogy and procreation, both ...
Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... By Lisa Freinkel New York: Columbia University Press, 2002 Reading Shakespeare's Will heralds a new approach to Shakespeare and religion, one that refuses to reduce Shakespeare's theological imagination either to his immediate historical context and biography or to a set of ...
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film & A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film Edited by Russell Jackson Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television By Kenneth S. Rothwell Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 Filmed ...
Pure Resistance: Queer Virginity in Early Modern English Drama.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... By Theodora A. Jankowski Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000 "The possession of biological virginity--an unperforated hymen--has consistently set certain women apart from others throughout history. Some cultures may validate the virgin and highly fetishize the ...
Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002 Shakespeare's Tribe is an important book, which will be required reading for all who are interested in the period, in religion, and in the stage. Its central claim--that there is a profound assonance among the apparently disparate ...
The Reign of Elizabeth I & Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World: A Biographical Dictionary.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Reign of Elizabeth I By Carole Levin New York: Palgrave, 2002 Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World: A Biographical Dictionary Edited by Carole Levin et el. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000 Because Elizabeth I was a powerful, highly ...
Elizabeth I: Collected Works.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Edited by Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000 In her Latin oration at Cambridge University in 1564, Elizabeth I announced her intention of doing "some famous and noteworthy work" and observed that ...
Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... By Mary Beth Rose Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002 Living in what is often called a post-feminist age, those of us who still identify ourselves as feminists have learned that women's progress cannot be plotted on the kind of clean upward trajectory of increasing ...
Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... By Kathryn Schwarz Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000 In Tough Love, Katheryn Schwarz tracks the presence of Amazons as a means for understanding how heterosexual desire, far from normative or natural in English Renaissance culture, is a social construct of the most fragile ...
Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... By Laurie Shannon Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002 Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts is a resolutely utopian project. Laurie Shannon sees in the rhetoric and logic of English Renaissance friendship a model of "likeness, ...
Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England & Remapping Early Modern England: The Culture of Seventeenth-Century Politics.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000; and Remapping Early Modern England: The Culture of Seventeenth-Century Politics Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 By Kevin Sharpe Kevin ...
Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... By Walter Stephens Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002 As witches were being questioned in hundreds of early modern courtrooms, so their crimes were being interrogated in as many texts. It is as if the trial took place of theories of witchcraft, as well as those actually ...
Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... by Ramie Targoff Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001 Ramie Targoff takes as her focus a chief tenet held by early modern defenders of decency and prescription in public worship, namely, the conviction that liturgical norms or paradigms serve to shape and enhance the ...
Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... by Wendy Wall Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 Who would have thought the Early Modern domestic sphere could be so fascinating and so strange? It is the enormous accomplishment of Wendy Wall's new book to make the Early Modern household the pulsing heart of the ...
English Professional Theatre 1530-1660.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Edited by Glynne Wickham, Herbert Berry, and William Ingram Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 English Professional Theatre, 1530-1660 is the sixth volume in an anticipated sixteen-volume series of documents essential for the study of European theater history. A volume ...
Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... By Linda Woodbridge Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Christopher Hill once remarked that early modern English people lived in fear of the tramp. Evidence of this fear can be found in official policies that criminalized vagrancy and in the many works of ...