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Titus Andronicus and the wicked streets of Rome Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Lisa Hopkins
Titus Andronicus is full of dichotomies: Black/white, good/bad, men/women, Goths/Romans, educated/uneducated (is a verse in Horace just a verse in Horace, or ought we to look for a deeper meaning?), whole/mutilated, alive/dead. The way in which the play represents the tensions between inside and outside is however particularly provocative. This essay explores how Titus Andronicus disturbs and undermines
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Miracles of contingency: Pericles as a drama of possibility Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Andrew Fletcher
This article argues that an exploration of contingency in Pericles is central to understand the play's achievement, which is born of the tensions the play sets up between narrative and dramatic accounts of experience, and vesting in the figure of Miranda an ‘otherness’ that opens possibilities that are foreclosed by an anthropocentric, law-based world view. The play's aesthetic is founded on this,
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Book Review: Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause: The Anxious Womb by McMahon Victoria L. Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Sarah Carter
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‘Fairest show’: Dramatic entrapment in Macbeth and Measure for Measure Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Peter Malin
This article reconsiders metatheatre in Macbeth and Measure for Measure, examining how characters find themselves entrapped in scenarios not of their own making, and how the creators of such scenarios can lose control of them. It examines the plays’ metatheatrical language, with a particular focus on the word ‘show’; argues that Macbeth's cauldron scene and the final scene of Measure for Measure function
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‘A Pope Shut out of Heaven Gates (Thrice)’: Erasmus’ Julius as a tool of anti-Catholic propaganda in early modern England Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Luca Baratta
The present article follows the editorial vicissitudes of Erasmus of Rotterdam's Julius within England's boundaries, where it was translated in 1533–34, in 1673, and in 1719. By interweaving the publishing history of these three English editions with their cultural milieu, it will appear evident that they were ideologically motivated products whose circulation directly coincided with an upheaval in
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Fissured legacies in Roysten Abel's In Othello Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Rosa M. García-Periago
In Othello (2003) offers both a critique and inadvertent affirmation of racial and colonial hierarchies and a reflection on the postcolonial nation. The film fosters Orientalist sensibilities via a...
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Grammatical expressions of time in Macbeth Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Jaspreet S. Tambar
Grammatical strategies in Macbeth comprise one of the play's most fascinating yet unexplored poetic and political devices. Constructions of tense, aspect, and mood inform Macbeth's attempts to arti...
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Men's lovesickness in Iberian chivalric romances in English: Anthony Munday's Palmendos (1589) and Primaleon of Greece, Book 1 (1595) Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Leticia Álvarez-Recio
This article explores the language of love disease in two Iberian romances translated by Anthony Munday, namely Palmendos (1589) and Primaleon of Greece (1595). Special attention is paid to the way...
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Rival Monarchs: The two versions of 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Warren Chernaik
Two early plays in the Shakespeare canon, 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI, exist in widely different versions. For many years, the standard explanation for the discrepancy was that Contention and True Tr...
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The ‘strange and dangerous Poynado’ of Georges Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Weaponry, propaganda, and political identity Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Nathalie Rivere de Carles
In 1627, an alleged murder plot involving a dagger targeted Georges Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham during his expedition to the Isle of Ré. In 1628, John Felton, a veteran of that same expedition...
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Timon and Melancholia Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2023-01-19 John Jowett
Timon of Athens shows Timon as extravagantly generous and sociable in the first half of the play and misanthropic in the second, in which his desire for catastrophe is potentially enacted by Alcibi...
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Shakespeare, national memory, and tourist place: Gyula's Várszínház Festival Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Robert Ormsby
This article examines the relationships between tourism, national identity, and Shakespearean performance at the Várszinház Festival in Gyula, Hungary. By hosting highly experimental Shakespearean ...
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Following Puck virtually in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Dream experiment: Live theatre and high-tech innovations Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Susan L. Fischer
The thirty-minute experiment titled Dream represented a collaborative effort between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Audience of the Future. It fused live performance with motion capture technolo...
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Gender and foreignness in William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes Parts One and Two (1656–1663) Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Honor Jackson
William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes plays, published and performed in two parts that straddle the Interregnum/Restoration boundary, constituted novel theatrical spectacles in a number of ways, a...
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Jean Aicard, Molière à Shakespeare, 1879: Introduction Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Michael Dobson
‘Molière à Shakspeare’ was recited on 2 June 1879 by the leading actor François Got as the prologue to a forty-performance season given by the Comédie-Française at the Gaiety Theatre in London. An ...
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Shakespeare and sonnet form Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Stanley Wells
This essay considers some of the uses to which Shakespeare put the literary form of the sonnet along with its component parts – the iambic pentameter line, the quatrain, the sestet, and the rhyming...
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Shakespeare and European geographies: Borders and power Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Lisanna Calvi, Maddalena Pennacchia
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An Interview with Members of the Roy Hart Theatre Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-06-16
The Roy Hart Theatre production of La Tempete was seen at the Théatre Municipal, Montpellier on 31 January, 1978. A few days after the performance, Matthew Dunne, Richard Armstrong, and Annie Girard were interviewed by Cahiers élisabéthains. Questions asked and answered in French have been left in the. original. Speakers are identified by their initials: M.D., R.A., and A.G., and questions on behalf
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Shakespeare's wavering geography: Religious topographia in Cymbeline Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Davide Del Bello
As forms of vivid description, or enargia, the figures of topographia, topothesia, and chorographia feature prominently in Elizabethan rhetoric manuals. This article considers Cymbeline's wavering geography as a confluence of these tropes. It reads the multiple rhetorical constructs of Shakespearean topographia in Cymbeline as instances of dislocation between the strictures imposed by a national identity
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‘“Why I should welcome such a guest as grief [?]”: Lodging and dislodging in Shakespeare's Richard II’ Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Hiscock Andrew
This article discusses the early modern cultural debate surrounding hospitality and inhospitality in the light of contemporaneous responses to history and the history play. The dominant focus of this discussion is Shakespeare's Richard II and the ways in which it seeks to interrogate and to critique early modern expectations of welcoming by inverting them repeatedly as the dramatic intrigue unfolds
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Survival strategies: Shakespeare and Renaissance truth-telling Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Stephen Greenblatt
Shakespeare repeatedly grappled with a question that haunted him but that could not be openly discussed with reference to any of the key figures in contemporary English affairs: why do communities of free men and women, people who have every reason to look out for their own interests, succumb to those who have no regard for the common good? Master of the oblique angle, the playwright prudently projected
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‘Speak of me as […]’: Refashioning geographies of monstrosity in Othello Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Michela Compagnoni
The connection between monstrosity, space, and power in Othello is explored through the notion of ‘geographies of monstrosity’. I argue that the play's spatial collocation of monsters and a-normativity echoes the Renaissance transition towards a more introjected perception of monstrosity, which does not occur when Othello is in a ‘central’ place (Venice), but when he moves to a frontier point (Cyprus)
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Interview with Stephan Wolfert on Shakespeare, trauma, and mapping affective theatre communities Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Kirilka Stavreva
This conversation with the founder of the theatre-therapy network DE-CRUIT sheds light on the purposeful work that goes into shaping creative Shakespearean networks of affective affiliation among US veterans who participate in the program. Program participants create rituals, integrate Shakespeare's poetry with personal narratives to voice trauma, and, eventually, to communalise it with their audiences
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Roman walls in English renaissance writing Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Lisa Hopkins
In 1587, an anonymous author proposed to Queen Elizabeth I that Hadrian's Wall should be reconstructed. Elizabeth did not adopt this proposal, but it testifies to a growing interest in the Wall on the part of writers such as Camden, Spenser, Drayton and William Warner. This essay examines ideas about Roman walls in these and other texts, including plays by Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare's King
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The late- and post-Soviet trials of Hamlet in song, ballet, and opera Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Michelle Assay
With the (re-)tightening of censorship, a proliferation of subtexts and Aesopian messages may be detected in late-Soviet Shakespeare adaptations in general and Hamlet in particular. This article examines representative cases of responses to Hamlet in the late- and post-Soviet eras, taking the genres of song, ballet, and opera/theatre, and broadly mapping them on to the topics of, respectively, Individualism
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Mapping violence onto the body of the ‘other’ in Julie Taymor's Titus (1999) Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Nora Galland
In Julie Taymor's film Titus (1999), which adapts Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, the Roman nation is both violated and violent. Taymor exposes the audience to different kinds of violence – intrafamilial, political, sexual, as well as revenge, infanticide, and racism – all of which are mapped onto characters who are othered by race, ethnicity, gender, or posthumous banishment. This article aims at
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The ‘(De)territorialising’ power of Cleopatra's barge: Plutarch, Shakespeare, and Mankiewicz Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Pascale Drouet
Taking into account the versions by Plutarch, Shakespeare, and Mankiewicz, this article focuses on Cleopatra's force of attraction and capacity to travel by water, thus crossing geopolitical, cultural, and emotional frontiers. It presents her barge as a metonymical ‘territory’ in a transitional space and examines its power of seduction and symbolism on political, spectacular, and mythical levels. It
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Performance review: The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Peter Malin
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Book review: Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in Genre Film by Kinga Földváry Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Peter Lewis
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Celebrating Cahiers Élisabéthains’ 50th anniversary Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Florence March,Jean-Christophe Mayer,Peter J Smith,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
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Book review: Serial Shakespeare: An Infinite Variety of Appropriations in American TV Drama by Elisabeth Bronfen Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Kinga Földváry
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Book review: Thomas Heywood and the Classical Tradition by Tania Demetriou and Janice Valls-Russell Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Warren Chernaik
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Book review: Studying Shakespeare Adaptation: From Restoration Theatre to YouTube by Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Peter Lewis
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Book review: Shakespeare and Commemoration by Clara Calvo and Ton Hoenselaars Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Grant Williams
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Performance review: The Tempest by Tom Littler Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Peter J Smith
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Book review: Shakespeare and Disability Studies by Sonya Freeman Loftis Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Peter J Smith
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Performance review: The Fawn; or Parasitaster by John Marston Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Peter Malin
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Performance review: Hamlet by Sean Mathias Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Peter J Smith
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Performance review: The Comedy of Errors by Phillip Breen Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Peter Malin
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Book review: Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy by Iman Sheeha Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Kath Bradley
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Book review: Shakespeare's Military Spouses and Twenty-First-Century Warfare by Kelsey Ridge Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Katherine Muskett
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Performance review: Macbeth by Yaël Farber Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Kath Bradley,Peter J Smith
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The Lord Mayor's Show for 1621 and 2021: Reconstructing a Triumph Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Lois Potter
In October 2021, the Beyond Shakespeare group performed the text of Thomas Middleton's Lord Mayor's Show of 1621, The Sun in Aries, at Bow Church in London's Cheapside. Lasting about half an hour, as opposed to the original all-day event, it featured music, child and adult performers, and minimal visual effects. The experiment showed that actors’ voices can be effective even in outdoor spaces (though
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Book review: The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance by Lynsey McCulloch and Brandon Shaw Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Andrew Hiscock
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‘More like a tavern than a school house’: Family strife, religious change, and the founding of Oundle Grammar School, 1556–1578 Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2022-01-05 James Alsop
The convoluted and contested foundation of the Grammar School at Oundle, Northamptonshire, in 1573 illustrated the complexities involved in giving concrete shape to pious wishes in 16th-century post-mortem bequests. Although the founder was Sir William Laxton (d. 1556), the key figure was his widow, the assertive matriarch Dame Joan Kirkeby-Luddington-Laxton, the richest woman of early Elizabethan
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‘Of counsel with [m]y mistress’: The mistress–servant alliance in Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling (1622) Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Iman Sheeha
Analyses of service in The Changeling have focused on De Flores as an embodiment of contemporary fears about servants, neglecting his mistress's agency and the play's engagement with anxieties about women's authority, especially their power over servants. They also ignore two other servants, Diaphanta and Lollio, whose relationships with their mistresses are equally revealing of those anxieties. This
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Shylocks’s ghosts Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Elena Pellone
Compagnia de’ Colombari, directed by Karin Coonrod, fashioned The Merchant in Venice from the stones of the Venetian Ghetto: Shylock's haunting ghost corporealised under moonlight. This 2016 production followed Max Reinhardt's Venetian Merchant in 1934: another lingering ghost of Shylock. These productions intersected in a vision to create bonds between strangers. Looking back on them in the Covid-19
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Macbeth apropos to Rupert Goold's and Gregory Doran's Stagecraft: Equivocation, violence, and vulnerability Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Susan L. Fischer
If Macbeth is Shakespeare's play of equivocation and doubleness, Rupert Goold's and Gregory Doran's productions were informed by like concerns, even having double performance lives on stage and on film. Doran's production followed along the lines of Trevor Nunn's 1976 staging, which highlighted the interiority of the Macbeths in the intimate space of The Other Place. Besides creating a sense of intimacy
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New perspectives on Anglo-Spanish diplomacy in the early modern era Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Nathalie Rivere de Carles
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Performance Review: Romeo and Juliet by John Cranko Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau
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Book Review: Shakespeare's Accents: Voicing Identity in Performance by Sonia Massai Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Daniel Yabut
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Book Review: The Genres of Renaissance Tragedy by Daniel Cadman, Andrew Duxfield and Lisa Hopkins Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Kath Bradley
Richard Wood is the author of Sidney’s Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue (2020); the chapter on William Cavendish and Elizabethan nostalgia in A Companion to the Cavendishes (2020); journal articles on Sir Philip Sidney in the Sidney Journal and Early Modern Literary Studies; essays with a focus on Sidney in two collections, Essex: The Cultural Impact of an Elizabethan Courtier (2013) and Maternity
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Book Review: Shakespeare and Crisis: One Hundred Years of Italian Narratives by Silvia Bigliazzi Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Janice Valls-Russell
How does one define ‘crisis’, that convenient holdall, bandied by – you name them – parents griping about their teenagers, but also politicians, journalists, economists, sociologists, art critics, psychologists, and Shakespeareans? Whether in the singular or the plural, with or without qualifiers, ‘crisis’ is a convenient tag for a wide range of individual and collective experiences. In her afterword
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Book Review: The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader by Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Peter J Smith
Janice Valls-Russell is a principal research associate and a member of the Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Era and the Enlightenment (IRCL), a joint research centre of France’s National Centre for Research (CNRS) and University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. Her most recent book, co-edited with Boika Sokolova, is Shakespeare’s Others in 21-century European Performance: ‘The
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Book Review: Richard II: A Critical Reader by Michael Davies & Andrew Duxfield Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Ella Hawkins
play’s contemporaneity, for instance, in its attention to ‘the position of aliens or minorities in a given society’ (p. 197). The problems this cussed play raises ‘can help examine current-day issues of integration and immigration’ (p. 209). This is a varied and engaging set of essays including the encyclopaedically factual and the daringly interpretative. The insistence throughout on the play’s topicality
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Book Review: Revived with Care: John Fletcher's Plays on the British Stage by Peter Malin Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Lisa Hopkins
sidered more widely as core features of Richard II. The final chapter in the volume is aimed at instructors and students looking to engage with Richard II as a subject of study. Esme Miskimmin’s ‘Learning and teaching resources: text, context and performance’ begins with an assessment of the Arden (third series), RSC, and Oxford Shakespeare editions of the play. Miskimmin draws attention to the defining
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Book Review: The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen by Russell Jackson Cahiers Élisabéthains Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Sarah Carter
‘Perkin Warbeck does not stage a moment in history, but rather the very process of historical revisionism itself’ (p. 194). This collection of essays not only demonstrates the range and flexibility of generic distinctions but also offers an introduction to a number of lesser-known playwrights and their work. Through both close textual analysis and a detailed examination of authorial intent, the reader