Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.…mehr
Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.
Martha W. Driver is distinguished professor of English and women's and gender studies at Pace University. Sid Ray is a professor of English and women's and gender studies at Pace University.
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Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD: "THE SKELETON IN THE MIRROR" Michael Almereyda and Dakin Matthews GENERAL INTRODUCTION Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray Part I. "Abstract and Brief Chronicles of Time": The Histories INTRODUCTION TO PART Martha W. Driver "Richard's Himself Again": The Body of Richard III on Stage and Screen Jim Casey Falstaff in America Catherine Loomis Scoring the Fields of the Dead: Musical Styles and Approaches to Postbattle Scenes from Henry V (1944, 1989) Linda K. Schubert Part II. "Carnal, Bloody, and Unnatural Acts": The Tragedies INTRODUCTION TO PART Martha W. Driver "We're Everyone You Depend On": Filming Shakespeare's Peasants Carl James Grindley Medieval Hamlet in Performance Patrick J. Cook Finding Gruoch: The Hidden Genealogy of Lady Macbeth in Text and Cinematic Performance Sid Ray Part III. "Many Merry Men": The Comedies INTRODUCTION TO PART Sid Ray Reading A Midsummer Night's Dream through Middle English Romance Martha W. Driver "Chaucer ... the Story Gives": Troilus and Cressida and The Two Noble Kinsmen Julia Ruth Briggs Shakespeare's Virgin Mother on the Modern Stage: All's Well, That Ends Well and the Madonna del Parto Tradition Gary Waller Part IV. "Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral": The Romances INTRODUCTION TO PART Sid Ray "The Quick and the Dead": Performing the Poet Gower in Pericles Kelly Jones Shakespeare as Medievalist: What It Means for Performing Pericles R. F. Yeager A Touch of Chaucer in The Winter's Tale Louise M. Bishop Caliban's God: The Medieval and Renaissance Man in the Moon Kim Zarins ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD: "THE SKELETON IN THE MIRROR" Michael Almereyda and Dakin Matthews GENERAL INTRODUCTION Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray Part I. "Abstract and Brief Chronicles of Time": The Histories INTRODUCTION TO PART Martha W. Driver "Richard's Himself Again": The Body of Richard III on Stage and Screen Jim Casey Falstaff in America Catherine Loomis Scoring the Fields of the Dead: Musical Styles and Approaches to Postbattle Scenes from Henry V (1944, 1989) Linda K. Schubert Part II. "Carnal, Bloody, and Unnatural Acts": The Tragedies INTRODUCTION TO PART Martha W. Driver "We're Everyone You Depend On": Filming Shakespeare's Peasants Carl James Grindley Medieval Hamlet in Performance Patrick J. Cook Finding Gruoch: The Hidden Genealogy of Lady Macbeth in Text and Cinematic Performance Sid Ray Part III. "Many Merry Men": The Comedies INTRODUCTION TO PART Sid Ray Reading A Midsummer Night's Dream through Middle English Romance Martha W. Driver "Chaucer ... the Story Gives": Troilus and Cressida and The Two Noble Kinsmen Julia Ruth Briggs Shakespeare's Virgin Mother on the Modern Stage: All's Well, That Ends Well and the Madonna del Parto Tradition Gary Waller Part IV. "Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral": The Romances INTRODUCTION TO PART Sid Ray "The Quick and the Dead": Performing the Poet Gower in Pericles Kelly Jones Shakespeare as Medievalist: What It Means for Performing Pericles R. F. Yeager A Touch of Chaucer in The Winter's Tale Louise M. Bishop Caliban's God: The Medieval and Renaissance Man in the Moon Kim Zarins ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
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