Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England articles from January 1 2008

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England archives from January 1 2008

Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama, by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. vii + 184. Cloth $75.00 A contribution to the growing literature on memory in early modern studies, this book...

Shakespeare, Memory and Performance.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Shakespeare, Memory and Performance, Peter Holland, ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xx + 367. Cloth $90.00. One of my earliest memories of a Shakespeare performance spotlights a stunning treatment of a...

Horrid Spectacle: Violation in the Theater of Early Modern England.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Horrid Spectacle: Violation in the Theater of Early Modern England, by Deborah G. Burks. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 456. Hardcover $60.00. Violation is a concept that has recently appeared in the title of...

Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity, by Alexander Leggatt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. ix + 228. Cloth $75.00; Paper $28.99. It has been a secret creed of my Shakespearean life to avoid Titus Andronicus....

Magic on the Early English Stage.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Magic on the Early English Stage, by Philip Butterworth. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Pp. ix + 295. Hardcover $85.00. Magic is a marvelous subject, literally. It's not surprising that the wonder of it, magic's promise and allure, held...

Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama, Lukas Erne and Margaret Jane Kidnie, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv + 229. Cloth $70.00. The history of the book has been a hot subject in...

The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630, by Henry S. Turner. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. $99.00 (cloth). This past summer I had occasion to observe the construction...

Performance approaches to Teaching Shakespeare.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare, by Edward L. Rocklin. Urbana: NCTE, 2005. Pp. xxvii + 431. Softcover $39.95 ($29.95 NCTE member). In the epilogue to his useful book, Understanding Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, Jay L....

Public Theatre in Golden Age Madrid and Tudor-Stuart London: Class, Gender, and Festive Community.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Public Theatre in Golden Age Madrid and Tudor-Stuart London: Class, Gender, and Festive Community, by Ivan Canadas. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiii + 233. Cloth $94.95. Hispanists and Anglicists working in both areas of early modern...

Representing the Professions: Administration, Law, and Theater in Early Modern England.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Representing the Professions: Administration, Law, and Theater in Early Modern England, by Edward Gieskes. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006, Pp. 365, $60.00 (cloth). In Representing the Professions, Edward Gieskes uses the...

Global Economics: A History of the Theater Business, the Chamberlain's/King's Men, and Their Plays.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Global Economics: A History of the Theater Business, the Chamberlain's/King's Men, and Their Plays, 1599-1642, by Melissa D. Aaron. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. Pp. 250. Cloth $47.50. Every scholar who wishes to read early...

Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage, Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin, eds. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama, edited by Helen Ostavich. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xvii...

Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to King Lear.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to King Lear, by Katharine Goodland. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. 254. Cloth $94.95. Katharine Goodland's Female...

Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen, by Sarah Hatchuel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 190. Cloth $75.00. An unfortunate by-product of current Shakespearean ideological criticism has been the tendency for critics to minimize...

Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication, by Zachary Lesser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii + 244. Cloth $75.00. As the intellectual and professional demands of academics grow increasingly onerous, one cannot...

Shakespeare's History Plays: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Shakespeare's History Plays: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad, edited by Ton Honselaars. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 287. Cloth $80.00. Ton Honselaars brings together twelve essays...

Anthony Munday and the Catholics.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633, by Donna B. Hamilton. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xxxvi + 268. Cloth $94.95. In a work of careful historical reconstruction, Donna Hamilton has written what will surely be the definitive...

Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England, by Julie Crawford. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. x + 270. Hardcover $50.00. In newly Reformed England, through the sixteenth and...

Shakespeare and republicanism.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Shakespeare and Republicanism, by Andrew Hadfield. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 363. Hardback $80.00 In Shakespeare and Republicanism Andrew Hadfield argues two main points. The first is that between...

Shakespeare's Marlowe: The Influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's Artistry.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Shakespeare's Marlowe: The Influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's Artistry by Robert A. Logan. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. Pp. 251. $89.95. In this outrageously overpriced and...

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, James Shapiro. xxiv + 429. London and New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Pp. xxiv + 429. Cloth $27.95. Paperback: New York: Harper Perennial, 2006, $14.95. James Shapiro's A Year in the Life of...

An illustration of traveling players in Franz Hartmann's early modern album amicorum.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... THE album amicorum flourished in German- (and Dutch-) speaking Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Begun in German universities, where students collected autographs of fellow students and professors, friendship albums, now in...

"Follow the money": sex, murder, print, and domestic tragedy.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... "FOLLOW the money," said the whistle-blower who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate story--or at least he did so in the movie version, All the President's Men. And the nickname the reporters gave to the tipster...

Women and crowds at the theater.(Report)
January 1, 2008... AUDIENCES at the early modern theaters from Shakespeare's time up to the closure of 1642 were different from modern spectators in two distinct ways. First, they behaved as crowds, not as individuals, and second the female element in their...

Foul papers, promptbooks, and Thomas Heywood's The Captives.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... THE British Library catalogue describes folios 52 to 73 of MS Egerton 1994 as a "[p]lay in five acts, without title, in which the characters are Raphael, Treadway, Ashburne, Lord and Lady Averne, an abbat, etc. Apparently autograph; with...

Begging at the gate: Jack Straw and the acting out of popular rebellion.(Report)
January 1, 2008... THE Life and Death of Jack Straw (1) is a short, anonymous, and rarely read history play from 1593 or 1594. (2) We know nothing of its authorship, little of its performance history, and even less of how audiences reacted to its performance, if...

"The Sanctuarie is become a plaiers stage": Chapel Stagings and Tudor "secular" drama.(Report)
January 1, 2008... WHEN Anthony Munday issued his oft-cited rebuke of players and theater in A Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies and Theatres (1580), the use of the church as a playing space received particular attention. While he railed against...

The presence of Africans in Elizabethan England and the performance of Titus Andronicus at Burley-on-the-Hill, 1595/96.(Report)
January 1, 2008... In 1594 Shakespeare confronted the Elizabethans with the dramatic figure of Aaron, a literate African trained in the classics. Shakespeare's characterization of Aaron presented a striking departure from the established discourse of black...