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Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings


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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.



Table of Contents:
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     


About the Author :
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.

Review :
“fascinating...compelling”—Arthuriana; “the anthology is certainly one that scholars interested in Shakespeare on film will wish to consult”—Studies in Medieval & Renaissance Teaching.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780786434053
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 284
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 553 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0786434058
  • Publisher Date: 14 May 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 284
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings
  • Width: 178 mm


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