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Criticism of William Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations
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Acknowledgments
The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of SC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.
COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SC, VOLUME 83, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:
Arena Magazine, October, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Christianity & Literature, v. 50, autumn, 2000; v. 50, winter, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—CLA Journal, v. 43, March, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by the College Language Association. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Comparative Drama, v. 33, spring, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by the Board of the Medieval Institute. Reproduced by permission.—Detroit Free Press, August 24, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by The Detroit Free Press. Reproduced by permission.—ELH, v. 32, March, 1965; v. 35, December, 1968. Copyright © 1965, 1968 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Both reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—English Literary Renaissance, v. 30, spring, 2000. Copyright © 2000, by English Literary Renaissance. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the editors.—Guardian, February 13, 2003 for “Men Fall in Love with War in Bristol: Troilus and Cressida” by Lyn Gardner. Copyright © 2003 Guardian Newspapers Limited. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts, v. 19, 1991. Copyright © 1992 by HSLA. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Huntington Library Quarterly, v. 63, summer, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Reprinted from Huntington Library Quarterly.—Interpretation, v. 9, September, 1981 for “Manliness and Friendship in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar” by Jan H. Blits. Copyright © 1982 by Interpretation. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Maclean’s, v. 115, September 9, 2002 for “Magical Monarch: Christopher Plummer is Superb in King Lear” by John Bemrose. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Review, v. 65, January, 1970. Copyright © Modern Humanities Research Association. Reproduced by permission.—Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, v. 84, 1983. Copyright © 1983 Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. Reproduced by permission.—New York Times, September 12, 2002. Copyright © 2003 The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—Renaissance Drama, v. 26 n.s., 1995. Copyright © 1997 by Northwestern University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Renaissance Quarterly, v. 23, winter, 1979. Copyright © 1979, by the Renaissance Society of America. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Shakespeare Bulletin, v. 20, spring, 2002. Reproduced by permission.—Shakespeare Quarterly, v. 15, spring, 1964; v. 29, winter, 1978; v. 39, spring, 1988; v. 44, winter, 1993; v. 50, spring, 1999; v. 51, summer, 2000; v. 53, 2002; v. 54, 2003. Copyright © 1964, 1978, 1988, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 by Folger Shakespeare Library. All reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—Upstart Crow, v. 20, 2000; v. 21, 2001. Copyright © 2000, 2001 by Clemson University. Reproduced by permission.—Variety, 1999; v. 280, August 14, 2003; v. 384, November 12, 2001. All reproduced by permission.
COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SC, VOLUME 83, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:
Adelman, Janet. From “Male Bonding in Shakespeare’s Comedies,” in Shakespeare’s “Rough Magic”: Renaissance Essays in Honor of C. L. Barber. Edited by Peter Erickson and Coppélia Kahn. Associated University Presses, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Associated University Presses, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Booth, Stephen. From “On the Greatness of King Lear,”in William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Edited by Harold Bloom. Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Chelsea House. Reproduced by permission.—Clark, Sandra. From “Fanned and Winnowed Opinions”: Shakespearean Essays Presented to Harold Jenkins. Methuen, 1987. Copyright © 1987, by Methuen & Co. Ltd. and individual contributors. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Dollimore, Jonathan. From “King Lear and Essentialist Humanism,” in William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Edited by Harold Bloom. Harvester Press, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Jonathan Dollimore. Reproduced by permission.—Domenichelli, Mario. From “Renaissance Chivalry and ‘Handsome Death’ in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida,”in Shakespeare and Intertextuality. Edited by Michele Marrapodi. Bulzoni Editore, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Bulzoni Editore. Reproduced by permission.—Gilbert, Allan.
From The Principles and Practice of Criticism: Othello, The Merry Wives, Hamlet. Wayne State University Press, 1959. Copyright © 1959, by Wayne State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Guilfoyle, Cherrell. From Shakespeare’s Play within Play: Medieval Imagery and Scenic Form in Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by the Board of the Medieval Institute. Reproduced by permission.—Hall, Jonathan. From Shakespeare and Carnival, Macmillan, 1998. Copyright © 1998, by Macmillan Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.—Hawkes, Terence. From King Lear. Northcote House, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Terence Hawkes. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Maguire, Laurie E. From “Performing Anger: The Anatomy of Abuse(s) in Troilus and Cressida,”in Renaissance Drama: Performing Affect. Edited by Jeffrey Masten and Wendy Wall. Northwestern University Press, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Northwestern University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Marsh, Nicholas. From Shakespeare: Three Problem Plays. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Copyright © Nicholas Marsh 2003. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rosen, Alan. From Dislocating the End: Climax, Closure and the Invention of Genre. Peter Lang, 2001. Copyright © by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Schlueter, June. From Dramatic Closure: Reading the End. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Associated University Presses. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Siegel, Paul N. From Weapons of Criticism: Marxism in America and Literary Tradition. Ramparts Press, 1976. Copyright © 1976, by Ramparts Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Stewart, Alan. From “‘Near Akin’: The Trials of Friendship in The Two Noble Kinsmen,”in Shakespeare’s Late Plays: New Readings. Edited by Jennifer Richards and James Knowles. Edinburgh University Press, 1999. Copyright © Edinburgh University Press, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Weller, Barry. From “The Two Noble Kinsmen, the Friendship Tradition, and the Flight from Eros,” in Shakespeare, Fletcher and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Edited by Charles H. Frey. University of Missouri Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The University of Missouri Press.—Wittreich, Joseph. From Image of That Horror: History, Prophecy, and Apocalypse in King Lear. Huntington Library, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by the Huntington Library. Reprinted with the permission of the Henry E. Huntington Library.
PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SC, VOLUME 83, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:
Hamlet, Act V, scene ii. Rob Edwards as Horatio and Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet, photograph by Robbie Jack. Copyright © 1992 by Robbie Jack/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—King Lear, Act III, scene ii. Fool, Edgar (as Tom O’ Bedlam), Kent, engraving.—King Lear, Act IV, scene vi. David Bradley as the Earl of Gloucester and Robert Stephens as King Lear, Barbican Theatre, London. Photograph by Robbie Jack. Copyright © 1993 by Robbie Jack/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—King Lear, Act V. “The Death of Cordelia” and “Lear on the Heath,” by Ch. Geoffrey, facing page . From Galerie des Personnages de Shakespeares, by Amedee Pichots (1795-1877), Paris: Baudry , 1844. Shakespeare Collection, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—King Lear, Act V, scene iii. “King Lear and Cordelia,” by V. W. Bromley (artist), and C. Mottram (engraver), facing page 71. From Brereton, Austin. Shakespearean Scenes and Characters from Betterton to Irving. London and New York: Cassell, 1886. Shakespeare Collection, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—King Lear, Lear, Kent, Fool, Edgar (as Tom O’Bedlam), and Gloucester on the heath, engraving. The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, Vol. II. John and Josiah Boydell, 1803. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, scene i. Anne Page and Slender, by R. P. Bonington.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Denis Quilley as Falstaff at the National Theatre, London, January, 1995, photograph by Robbie Jack. Copyright © 1995 by Robbie Jack/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Title page from the First Folio.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Title page of the First Quarto, 1602.—Troilus and Cressida, Act I, scene ii. Pandarus and Cressida, by T. Kirk (n.d.).—Troilus and Cressida, Act II, scene ii. Cassandra, by G. Romney (n.d.).—Troilus and Cressida, Act V, scene ii. Thersites, Ulysses, Troilus, Diomed, and Cressida, by Angelica Kauffman (n.d.).—Troilus and Cressida, Act V, scene iii. Cassandra, Hector, and Andromache by
T. Kirk (n.d).—Troilus and Cressida, Troilus and Diomed by A. Coopet (artist) and J. A. Watt (engraver), plate . From Smirkes Illustrations to Shakespeare’s Works. (London, 1821-29). Shakespeare Collection, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Troilus and Cressida, Castle of Tenedos from the Prologue, by G. F. Sargent (artist) and John Woods (engraver). From Shakespeare Illustrated, in a Series of Landscapes Architectural Designs, by G. F. Sargent. London: How and Parsons, 1842. Shakespeare Collection, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Troilus and Cressida, Title page to the 1609 Quarto edition.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, scene i. Verona. From Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, by Walter Crane. London: J. M. Dent, 1894. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—The Two Noble Kinsmen. Quarshie, Hugh as Arcite and Gerard Murphy as Palamon in a scene from a 1986 production at the Swan Theatre, photograph. Copyright © Donald Cooper/Photostage. Reproduced by permission.
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