Comparative Drama articles from December 2007

Comparative Drama archives from December 2007

"I desyre to be paid": interpreting the language of remuneration in early modern dramatic archives.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... Remuneration--O, that's the Latin word for three-farthings. --Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost In the fall of 1602, Anthony Munday was writing similar work for two different bosses: plays for Philip Henslowe and a Lord Mayor's Show...

Wherefore Verona in The Two Gentlemen of Verona?
December 22, 2007... The greatest variety in the titles of Shakespeare's plays can be found in the comedies: one, for example, is a complete sentence, All's Well That Ends Well; one indicates the genre, The Comedy of Errors. Unlike the histories, named for the...

Re-membering the Jews: theatrical violence in the N-Town Marian plays.
December 22, 2007... It has become almost a critical commonplace that the miracles of the Virgin Mary common to later medieval sermons, exempla, and dramatic texts are marked by the occasional but regular appearance of Jews as a group, functioning as a convenient...

The Merchant of Venice, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the perils of Shakespearean appropriation.
December 22, 2007... Inundated daily with horrifying images and vitriolic rhetoric, few readers would fail to recognize the magnitude of the Arab-Israeli conflict, its impact on regional and global politics, and the suffering it has caused so many Israelis and...

Sacerdotal vestiges in The Tempest.
December 22, 2007... In Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, Geoffrey Bullough observes that The Tempest's "didactic nature," as well as Prospero's "masterful aloofness" and "use of the supernatural" have encouraged some critics to treat the play...

J. Michael Walton. Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... J. Michael Walton. Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. vii + 320. $95.00. Through the centuries, ancient Greek drama has been kept alive by two usually distinct groups: scholars,...

Angus Fletcher. Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Angus Fletcher. Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 179. $29.95. Whatever its topic, a new book by Angus Fletcher is a safe bet for a provocative mix of striking observations,...

Stanley Wells. Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Stanley Wells. Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story. New York: Pantheon, 2006. Pp. xv + 286. $26.00. Stanley Wells's lifetime of experience...

William Shakespeare. The First Quarto of "Romeo and Juliet.".(Book review)
December 22, 2007... William Shakespeare. The First Quarto of "Romeo and Juliet." Ed. Lukas Erne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x-vii + 156 + appendices. $85.00. This is an excellent edition of a wonderful play. Lukas Erne's annotations...

Jane K. Brown. The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Jane K. Brown. The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 292. $59.95. Jane K. Brown's study of the relationship between allegory and...

Tony Howard. Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Tony Howard. Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 329. $90.00. In William Ackerman Buell's The Hamlets of the Theatre (written in 1940,...

David Bradby and Andrew Calder, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Moliere.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... David Bradby and Andrew Calder, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Moliere. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix + 242. $29.95. Companion guides too often venture over all too familiar ground, or, worse still, print...

Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Carol Chillington Rutter. The Henry VI Plays.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Carol Chillington Rutter. The Henry VI Plays. Shakespeare in Performance. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. Pp. viii+224. $74.95. Is Shakespeare our contemporary? No and yes, say historicist and...