Early modern drama in performance : essays in honor of Lois Potter / edited by Darlene Farabee, Mark Netzloff, and Bradley D. Ryner.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Potter, Lois.

Netzloff, Mark, editor.

Ryner, Bradley D., editor.

Farabee, Darlene, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Theater--England--History--16th century.

Theater.

England.

History.

Theater--England--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

vi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2014]

Summary:

Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This collection's emphasis on Shakespearean and early modern drama reflects the area for which Potter is most widely known, as a performance critic, editor, and literary scholar. The essays by a diverse group of scholars who have been influenced by Potter address recurring themes in her work: Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean early modern drama, performance history and theatre practice, theatrical performance across cultures, play reviewing, and playreading. What unifies them most, though, is that they carry on the spirit of Potter's work: her ability to meet a text, a performance, or a historical period on its own terms, to give scrupulous attention to specific details and elegantly show how these details generate larger meaning, and to recover and preserve the fleeting and the ephemeral. Book jacket.

Contents:

Dramatic verse and early modern playgoers in Marlowe's time / Roslyn L. Knutson

The usurer's theatrical body: refiguring profit in The Jew of Malta and The blind beggar of Alexandria / Bradley D. Ryner

Theater of anatomy: The tragedy of Hoffman / Peter Hyland

"Know you this ring?": metonymic functions of a prop / Ann Thompson and John O. Thompson

Editing and staging The revenger's tragedy: three problems / Alan C. Dessen

The "most unsavoury similes" and Henry IV, part one / Darlene Farabee

Shakespeare and cognitive vision / Arthur F. Kinney

Shakespeare's conception of tragedy: the middle tragedies / Jay L. Halio

Shakespeare or not Shakespeare?: the propagation of the plays in Europe through J.F. Ducis's "imitations" / Michèle Willems

Un/natural perspectives: Viola on the late nineteenth-century stage / Virginia Mason Vaughan

Reading, recitation, and entertainments: the Dunedin Shakespeare club, 1877-1956 / Evelyn Tribble

The power of Shakespeare's word in twentieth-century Prague / Zdeněk Stříbrný

Showtime: temporality and the video Archive of Julius Caesar at the RSC / Andrew James Hartley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611495126

1611495121

OCLC:

887858538