Shakespeare Studies articles

Recent articles from Shakespeare Studies

Foreword.
January 1, 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, revisits...

Introduction.(FORUM: The Return of the Author)
January 1, 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 the...

Reconsidering Shakespearean authorship.(William Shakespeare's Sonnet 23)(Critical essay)
January 1, 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: As an unperfect actor on the stage, ...

"To think these trifles some-thing": Shakespearean playbooks and the claims of authorship.(authorship of William Shakespeare's plays)(Critical essay)
January 1, 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 what we don't read (as...

Shakespeare as coauthor.(William Shakespeare and coauthorship in classical theater)(Report)
January 1, 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...