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The Text, the Play, and the Globe : Essays on Literary Influence in Shakespeare's World and His Work in Honor of Charles R. Forker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611478228
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Text, the Play, and the GlobeDDC classification:
  • 822.33
LOC classification:
  • PR2976 -- .T349 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ch01. The Ends of Time in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -- Ch02. Marlowe in Edward II -- Ch03. Edward II in Performance from the 1980s to the Present -- Ch04. The Transitory Playhouse: Theatre, Rose, and Globe -- Ch05. Shakespeare and His Fellows: Honored at Somerset House? -- Ch06. Richard II on Screens -- Ch07. The (Mis)fortunes of Falstaff in Performance -- Ch08. How the Noble Spanish Soldier Describes a Battle -- Ch09. The Staging of the Problematic Attempted Rape Scene of The Two Gentleman of Verona as the Culmination of the Play's Anti-Romantic Thematic Concerns -- Ch10. Across the Narrow Sea: The 1620 Leipzig Volume of English Plays -- Ch11. 6Shakespearean Comedy and the Boundaries of Europe -- Ch12. George Wither's Response to Othello -- Ch13. Jonson's Epigrams and the Learned Critics -- Appendix -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: This book explores the many different ways that we can understand the concept of "literary influence," considering both the pressures exerted upon a work at the time of its creation as well as the pressures that continue to be exerted upon it and that it in turn exerts upon other works in the course of its literary or performance history.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ch01. The Ends of Time in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -- Ch02. Marlowe in Edward II -- Ch03. Edward II in Performance from the 1980s to the Present -- Ch04. The Transitory Playhouse: Theatre, Rose, and Globe -- Ch05. Shakespeare and His Fellows: Honored at Somerset House? -- Ch06. Richard II on Screens -- Ch07. The (Mis)fortunes of Falstaff in Performance -- Ch08. How the Noble Spanish Soldier Describes a Battle -- Ch09. The Staging of the Problematic Attempted Rape Scene of The Two Gentleman of Verona as the Culmination of the Play's Anti-Romantic Thematic Concerns -- Ch10. Across the Narrow Sea: The 1620 Leipzig Volume of English Plays -- Ch11. 6Shakespearean Comedy and the Boundaries of Europe -- Ch12. George Wither's Response to Othello -- Ch13. Jonson's Epigrams and the Learned Critics -- Appendix -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This book explores the many different ways that we can understand the concept of "literary influence," considering both the pressures exerted upon a work at the time of its creation as well as the pressures that continue to be exerted upon it and that it in turn exerts upon other works in the course of its literary or performance history.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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