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‘With his Head Broke’: The Occupational Hazards of Shakespeare’s Schoolmasters Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Michael Albright
Placed in largely comedic situations and portrayed as objects of mockery, Shakespeare’s schoolmasters serve as prime and highly visible representations of the precarious and emergent teaching profe...
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Review of Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (Directed by Rachel Bagshaw) at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London, 20 March 2024 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Peter J. Smith
Published in Shakespeare (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Memorialising Shakespeare: commemoration and collective identity, 1916–2016 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Robert Sawyer
Published in Shakespeare (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Death as Preservation in The Winter’s Tale Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Rebecca Olson
Unusual for a comedy, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale centres early modern preservation: a state that was neither illness nor wellness, but a reprieve from both degeneration and reproduction. Unlik...
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Hamlet’s Melancholic Imagination Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Angus Gowland
This article presents an interpretation of Hamlet's psychological condition through the prism of early modern ideas about the melancholic imagination. It begins with an account of what Shakespeare ...
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‘Wilt Break My Heart?’ Takotsubo Syndrome and Shakespeare’s Discourse of Heartbreak in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Claire Hansen, Bríd Phillips
Shakespeare’s characters knew well the dangers and causes of an overcharged heart. This article places representations of heartbreak in Shakespeare’s canon in dialogue with twenty-first-century med...
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Listening to First Quartos: The Women of The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Michael M. Wagoner
The so-called ‘bad’ quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays have long been treated as superfluous. However, recent debates suggest that these publications are not corrupt but may instead be Shakespe...
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Shakespeare is Not Pie: Contingencies of Labour, Marginalisation, and Early Modern Studies Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Danielle Rosvally
In the United States, zero-sum economic models (‘scarcity mindset’ often represented by the metaphor of pie) are being deployed in service to neoliberal ideas about humanist curricula. Backed by th...
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Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick: plays, painting and performance Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Robert W. Jones
Published in Shakespeare (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Shakespeare in Action Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Eleanor Rycroft, Maria Shmygol
Published in Shakespeare (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Introduction: To the Reader; or, What’s in a Folio? Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Miranda Fay Thomas, Gabriel Egan
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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Review of John Fletcher’s The Faithful Shepherdess (Directed by Lizzie Conrad Hughes for Shake-Scene Shakespeare), Zoom, 26 November 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Pamela Pierro
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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Shakespeare’s tercentenary: staging nations and performing identities in 1916 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Lisa Hopkins
Published in Shakespeare (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Just How Remarkable was the ‘Jealous Moor’? Othello, Jealousy and Early Modern Racial Stereotypes Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Bradley J. Irish
It is a critical commonplace that Othello is informed by the early modern stereotype that understood Moors to be particularly inclined to jealousy. This article contextualises this stereotype, by p...
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Gender Reversals in Contemporary Shakespeare Adaptations: The Case of the National Theatre at Home During the Pandemic Shakespeare Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Yeliz Biber Vangölü, Florentina Gümüş
This article explores the diverse ways in which gender reversal is exploited in the adaptations of Shakespeare plays streamed online by the National Theatre at Home platform within its first year o...
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Shakespeare and Morality Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Patrick Gray
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023)
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Knowing through Nursing: Edgar and the Exercise of Care in King Lear Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Julia Reinhard Lupton
In Shakespeare’s late plays, the arts of care push towards sublime horizons of value out of lived ecologies of virtue nourished by global wisdom traditions. To know by nursing is to intuit in and t...
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Shakespeare, Marston, and Getting to Moral Clarity through Comedy Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Maria Devlin McNair
‘Uneasy comedy’ can be a surprising source of moral insight. Comedies like John Marston’s The Dutch Courtesan and Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well provoke uneasy laughter, laughter mixed wit...
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Philosophical Perspectives Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Jessica Chiba
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023)
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Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Benedict J. Whalen
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023)
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Shakespeare’s Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, and the Good Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Fernando Martinez Periset
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023)
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Shakespeare in the World: Cross-Cultural Adaptation in Europe and Colonial India, 1850–1900 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Shormishtha Panja
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023)
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Review of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Directed by Wils Wilson for the Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 20 September 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-12-05 William David Green
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance, Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Alexander Thom
Published in Shakespeare (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s English History Plays Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Dalton Greene
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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Review of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Directed by Elle While for Shakespeare’s Globe), 31 July 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Anouska Lester
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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Review of Shakespeare’s As You Like It (Directed by Ellen McDougall) at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, 8 September 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Sally Barnden
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare’s Drama Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Alexander Thom
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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Santiago: Making Bilingual Shakespeare Count Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-10-03 James M. Sutton
Santiago is a bilingual script of Othello, created jointly by Joe Falocco of Texas State University and Shakespearean scholar and translator Alfredo Michel Modenessi. Developed during spring 2023, ...
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Re-localising Shakespeare in Pakistan: A Post-Dramatic Appropriation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew as Illaj-e-Zid-Dastiyab-Hey Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Zakia Resshid Ehsen, Amra Raza, Shahzeb Khan
This research examines the political nature of appropriation in Pakistan’s theatrical production Illaje-Zid-Dastiyab-Hey (2012), an Urdu adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew ...
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Industrial Nature: The Unrealised King Lear of Norman Bel Geddes Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Roger Graham
This paper examines the surviving production evidence from the long-prepared but never staged production of King Lear from industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes and explores the evidence through th...
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Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Emma Venter
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023)
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Review of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (Directed by Sean Holmes) and Macbeth (Directed by Abigail Graham) at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London, 5 July 2023 and 9 August 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Gemma Miller
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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Dogs Urinating on the 1623 Folio: The Jaggard Press’s Dionysus Ornament in Context Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Erika Mary Boeckeler
This case study of the Dionysus ornament illustrates how the 1623 Shakespearean folio carries with it echoes of previous folio works as it reinterprets this image within its own context. The paper ...
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Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Alison Searle
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023)
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The Folgers’ First Folios Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Zoltán Márkus
The Folger Shakespeare Library has 82 copies of First Folios, which is more than a third of the surviving total of 235 copies in the world. The married couple Henry and Emily Folger acquired these ...
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One Book to Rule Them All: ‘The King James Version’ of Shakespeare’s Plays Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Gary Taylor
Renaissance clothes were piecemeal assemblages of parts. This pervasive practice is connected to early English theater, which emphasized variety rather than the (neo)classical focus on unity of tim...
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‘Not on his Picture, but his Booke’: Shakespeare’s First Folio and Practices of Collection Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Amy Lidster
Every play collection represents an interpretative act that evaluates the materials it contains. In this quatercentenary year since the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio, this article positi...
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Shakespeare and the New Palace of Westminster (1834–1927) Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Callan Davies
ABSTRACT This article explores how the art and architecture of the New Palace of Westminster (home to the UK’s Houses of Parliament) evoke a theatrical experience underpinned by ‘Shakespearean’ aesthetics. Over a series of artistic commissions from the 1840s to the 1920s, artists instrumentalised Shakespeare both explicitly and implicitly as part of the wider schemes within which they worked. Doing
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Editing Cruxes in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream: Folio, Quarto, Performance Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Joshua R. Held
This essay attempts to insulate the Folio from periodic swings of opinion about it by illustrating that some aspects of this text have gained greater respect over the last four centuries. The essay...
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Steel Caliban: A New Etymological and Alchemical Inquiry into The Tempest Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Michela Compagnoni
ABSTRACT As one of the most inextricable enigmas of Shakespeare's theatre, Caliban's name channels the intrinsically indefinite nature of the character that bears it. As an addition to the explanations that have already been suggested, in this essay I offer a new possible etymological origin, that is, chalybs, the Latin word for ‘steel'. This etymological connection might resonate with many core features
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Constructing Inessential Shakespeare in the United States Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Mark Bayer
ABSTRACT ‘Inessential Shakespeare’ is largely an invented category, a consequence of a set of critical, editorial, and economic factors established when Shakespeare studies emerged as a recognisable academic discipline. Like all disciplines, Shakespeare studies required the construction of a material and conceptual apparatus consisting of the text of the plays, annotations, introductions, methods,
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Review of Emma Frankland and Subira Joy’s Adaptation of John Lyly’s Galatea (Directed by Emma Frankland for Brighton Festival) at Adur Recreation Ground, Shoreham-by-Sea, 17 May 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Harriet Scanlon
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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‘I Will Through and Through / Cleanse the Foul Body of Th’infected World, / If They Will Patiently Receive My Medicine’ (As You Like It): Laughter and Fooling as Poison and Remedy Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Rachel Robinson
ABSTRACT For the early modern medical community, laughter was in equal parts celebrated for its medicinal properties and feared for its potential to cause bodily injury. In excess, or when employed derisively, laughter was even considered to be lethal. This article examines Shakespeare's engagement with laughter's drug-like ability to heal and to hurt. It identifies the fools in As You Like It and
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Review of Arden of Faversham (Directed by Jesse Berger for the Red Bull Theater) and Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Directed by Noah Brady and Emily Young for the Red Bull Theater and Fiasco Theater) at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 14 March 2023 and 26 April 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Sylvia Korman
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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Training Shakespeare's Yes in the Era of No Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Daniel Spector
What I explore in what follows is a theory of why my job has become more difficult in recent years – not impossible, and in some ways more rewarding because of new challenges, but simply more deman...
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Counting to One: ‘One Flesh’ Marriage in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Will Stockton
ABSTRACT This essay builds on scholarship surrounding the foreclosure of same-sex love and friendship in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen to argue that the play also struggles to realise marriage as a union of man and wife into ‘one flesh’. At turns mocking and subscribing to the trope of Palamon and Arcite as one person, the play’s marriage plot stumbles over the problem of how to
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Indict the Author of Affection: Affectation and Catachresis in Hamlet Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Lisa Hopkins
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 3, 2023)
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Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Nathan Dooner
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 3, 2023)
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Review of Charlie Dupré's Compositor E (Directed by Amie Burns Walker) at the Network Theatre, London, 16 February 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Emily Rowe
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023)
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Review of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (Directed by Gregory Doran for the Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 23 May 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Alexander Thom
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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William Shakeshafte, Player Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Matthew Steggle
ABSTRACT On 3 August 1581, the Lancashire gentleman Alexander Hoghton made a will which mentions a servant named ‘William Shakeshafte’. Many biographies of Shakespeare, including Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World, believe that this record refers to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon Avon in Warwickshire, then aged 17, while other biographies flatly disagree. Defining questions of Shakespeare’s
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Review of Shakespeare’s Richard III (Directed by Adjoa Andoh) at Liverpool Playhouse Theatre, 13 April 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Andrew Duxfield
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023)
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The Revolution’s Bloody Hands: Macbeth in Bolshevik Russia Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Natalia Khomenko
ABSTRACT Western studies of the Russian response to Shakespeare’s political tragedy after the October Revolution of 1917 have traditionally focused on Hamlet and paid little attention to the fortunes of Macbeth. This article argues that early Soviet Russia saw Macbeth as a play that sent a revolutionary message to its audiences and offered an ideologically useful vision of the world re-made by political
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‘The Tale of Tereus’ and the Story of Procne: Innogen’s Bedside Reading Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Bettina Boecker
ABSTRACT The essay discusses the wider significance of Innogen’s bedside reading in Cymbeline. When Giacomo enters her bedchamber in Act 2 Scene 2, the audience learns that she has been reading ‘the tale of Tereus’, and that she fell asleep ‘where Philomel [gives] up’. Existing scholarship has mostly assumed that Cymbeline presents Innogen reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and that the reference to Tereus
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Review of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (Directed by José Zayas for the American Shakespeare Center) at the Blackfriars Playhouse, Staunton, Virginia, 25 February 2022 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Matthew M. Davis
Published in Shakespeare (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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From Theory to Action: Staging a Feminist Production of The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Sara Reimers
ABSTRACT This article advocates for scholarship-informed theatre practice, demonstrating how feminist criticism of The Taming of the Shrew shaped and informed a production of the play staged on the London Fringe in 2017. With reference to the production’s editing, casting, and staging choices, the article foregrounds how scholarship supported the process of textual interpretation and feminist elucidation
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Polychronic Actants: Modern Promptbooks as Anticipated Acts, Unanticipated Acts, and Ideal Assemblages Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Mark Kaethler, Toby Malone, Jennifer Roberts-Smith
ABSTRACT Modern Shakespeare promptbooks do not fit comfortably into any of the conceptual models current in discourses around the role of text in performance. Promptbooks operate as cue lists; records of unexpected acts; and records of or efforts to approximate ideal enactments. While promptbooks are not necessarily limited to these three temporalities, their encapsulation of all three points to their
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Review of Shakespeare’s King Lear (Directed by Simon Godwin for the Shakespeare Theatre Company) at the Klein Theatre, Washington, DC, 15 March 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Michael J. Collins
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023)
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Review of Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term (Directed by Perry Mills for Edward’s Boys) at the Inner Temple, London, 17 March 2023 Shakespeare Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Bethan Davies
Published in Shakespeare (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2023)