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Volume 71

Criticism of William Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Lynn M. Zott

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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 71, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Imago, v. 58, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Cineaste, v. 24, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—The Denver Post, August 1, 1997 for “Smartly Staged Troilus and Cressida Disparages War,” by Sandra Brooks-Dillard. Reproduced by permission.—ELH, v. 44, Summer, 1977. Reproduced by permission.—The Financial Times, December 6, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—The Independent, July 26, 1996 for a review of Troilus and Cressida, by Paul Taylor. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Literature/Film Quarterly, v. 25, 1997. Reproduced by permission.— Maclean’s, v. 108, June 19, 1995. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The New York Times, v. CXLIX, January 21, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—Papers on Language and Literature, v. 9, Spring 1973. Reproduced by permission.—Plays and Players, February, 1997; February, 1998. Reproduced by permission of the authors.—Renascence, v. 53, Winter, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Rocky Mountain News, July 18, 1997, for “Troilus Sends Bard Off to Civil War,” by Alan Dumas. Reproduced by permission of the Rocky Mountain News.—San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—The Shakespeare Newsletter,v.51, Spring-Summer, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Shakespeare Quarterly, v. 14, Summer, 1963; v. 17, Spring, 1966; v. 22, Spring, 1971; v. 24, Spring, 1973; v. 25, Winter, 1974; v. 43, Spring, 1982; v. 39, Spring, 1988; v. 52, Spring, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Shakespeare Studies, v. 8, 1975; v. 23, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—The Star Ledger, April 19, 2001. Copyright © 2002, The Star-Ledger. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Texas Studies in Literature and Language, v. 43, n. 1, 2001, pp. 46-73, for “The ‘ill kill’d’ Deer: Poaching and Social Order in The Merry Wives of Windsor,” by Jeffrey Theis. Copyright © 2001 by the University of Texas Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—University of Mississippi Studies in English, v. 5, 1964. Reproduced by permission.—Upstart Crow,v.6, 1986; v. 14, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—The Yearbook of English Studies, v. 23, 1993, for “‘Silence, like a Lucrece knife’: Shakespeare and the Meanings of Rape,” by Carolyn D. Williams. Copyright © Modern Humanities Research Association, 1993. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.

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Berry, Edward. From “The ‘Rascal’ Falstaff in Windsor,” in Shakespeare and the Hunt: A Cultural and Social Study. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Copyright © by Cambridge University Press, 2001. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.—Blits, Jan H. From Introduction to Deadly Thought: ‘Hamlet’ and the Human Soul. Lexington Books, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Lexington Books. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Breitenberg, Mark. From “Publishing Chastity: Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece,”in Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Copyright © by Cambridge University Press, 1996. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.—Camino, Mercedes Maroto. From “Writing Lucrece: Shakespeare’s ‘Virtuous Moment,’” in “The Stage Am I”: Raping Lucrece in Early Modern England. The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995. Copyright © by The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—James, Heather. From “‘Tricks We Play on the Dead’: Making History in Troilus and Cressida,”in Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Copyright © by Cambridge University Press, 1997. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.—Maquerlot, Jean-Pierre. From “When a Play is Foiling: Troilus and Cressida,”in Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition: A Reading of Five Problem Plays. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Copyright © by Cambridge University Press, 1995. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.—McCandless, David. From “Troilus and Cressida,”in Gender and Performance in Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies. Indiana University Press, 1997. Copyright © by Indiana University

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Press, 1997. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Montgomery Jr., Robert L. From “Shakespeare’s Gaudy: The Method of The Rape of Lucrece,”in Studies in Honor of Dewitt T. Starnes. The University of Texas Press, 1967. Copyright © by The University of Texas Press 1967. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Roberts, Jeanne Addison. From “The Play: Suitably Shallow but Neither Simple nor Slender,” in Shakespeare’s English Comedy: The Merry Wives of Windsor in Context. University of Nebraska Press, 1979. Copyright © by University of Nebraska Press, 1979. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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1849 program cover for a performance of Hamlet, performed for Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle, photograph. Hulton/ Archive. Reproduced by permission.—Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet, and Polonius, from Act I, scene ii of a 1955 theatrical production of Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, performed at the Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow, Russia, photograph. Courtesy of The Library of Congress. Reproduced by permission.—Claudius handing Laertes a knife, from Act III, scene ii of a 1955 theatrical production of Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, performed at Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow, Russia, photograph. Courtesy of The Library of Congress. Reproduced by permission.—Dodge, David J. as Hector and Bryony Renner as Achilles in a scene from the 2001 GreenStage production of Troilus and Cressida, written by William Shakespeare, photograph. Reproduced by permission.—Dodge, David J. as Hector and Jason Marr as Troilus in a scene from the 2001 GreenStage production of Troilus and Cressida, written by William Shakespeare, photograph. Reproduced by permission.—Engraving of Falstaff, Mistress Page, and Mistress Ford from Act V, scene v of The Merry Wives of Windsor, written by William Shakespeare. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—“Falstaff and Mrs. Ford.” Engraving by Goupil and Company, after a painting by Eduard Grützner. From Gallery of Shakespeare Illustrations from Celebrated Works of Art, 1909. General Collections, Library of Congress.—Hamlet behind iron bars, from Act II, scene i of a 1955 theatrical production of Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, performed at the Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow, Russia, photograph. Courtesy of The Library of Congress. Reproduced by permission.—“Ophelia.” Engraving after a drawing by Sir Joseph Noel Paton for The National Shakespeare, vol. 3, Tragedies (London, 1888). Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress.—Renner, Bryony as Achilles, David J. Dodge as Hector, Kevin Haggerty as Agamemnon, Ron Mather as Menelaus, Amelia Meckler as Ulysses, and Pete Burford as Aeneas in a scene from the 2001 GreenStage production of Troilus and Cressida, written by William Shakespeare, photograph. Reproduced by permission.—Robertson, Constance as Mistress Page, Oscar Asche as Falstaff, and Lily Brayton as Mistress Ford in a scene from a 1915 stage production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, photograph. Hulton/Archive. Reproduced by permission.—Scenes from twelve of William Shakespeare’s plays, illustrations. Mary Evans Picture Library. Reproduced by permission.—Simons, Eli Sklov as Pandarus, Rachel Hornor as Cressida, and Jason Marr as Troilus in a scene from the 2001 GreenStage production of Troilus and Cressida, written by William Shakespeare, photograph. Reproduced by permission.—Title Page of the 1655 edition of The Rape of Lucrece, by William Shakespeare. Folger Shakespeare Library. Reproduced by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.—Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm as Falstaff in an 1889 stage production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Hulton/Archive. Reproduced by permission.—Vanbrugh, Irene and Violet Vanbrugh in a scene from a 1935 stage production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at Ring Theatre in London. © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.

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