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Volume 69

Excerpts from the 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 69, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Imago, v. 31, Summer, 1974; v. 45, Fall, 1988. Both reproduced by permission.—Cahiers Élisabéthains, v. 34, October, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Cineaste, v. 25, June, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Comparative Drama, v. 4, Winter, 1996-97. Reproduced by permission.—ELH, v. 42, Fall, 1975. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in Literature, v. 15, Fall, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of General Education, v. 16, April, 1964. Reproduced by permission.—Kenyon Review, v. 7, Spring, 1985 for “The Horses of Macbeth” by Bert O. States. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Literature and Psychology, v. 4, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Literature/Film Quarterly,

  • v. 21, 1993; v. 29, 2001. Both reproduced by permission.—Massachusetts Review, v. 24, Winter, 1983 for “Ridding Ourselves of Macbeth” by Lisa Low. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Modern Language Quarterly, v. 52, June, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Studies, v. 18, Summer, 1988 for “’Tongues in Trees’: The Book of Nature in As You Like It” by Paul J. Willis. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.— Neohelicon, v. 22, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—The New Republic, v. 221, October 4, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—New York Times, Current Events Edition, December 23, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Shakespeare Quarterly,
  • v. 14, Winter, 1963; v. 22, Winter, 1971; v. 28, Winter, 1977; v. 29, Summer, 1978; v. 36, Autumn, 1985; v. 52, Spring, 2001. Copyright © Folger Shakespeare Library. All reprinted with permission of The Johns Hopkins University Library.— Shakespeare Studies, v. 8, 1976. Reproduced by permission.—Spectator, v. 284, April 1, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Studia Neophilologica, v. 68, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, v. 24, Spring, 1984; v. 28, Spring, 1988. Both reproduced by permission.—Wall Street Journal, March 11, 1999 for a review of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, by Joel Henning. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Yale Journal of Criticism, v. 3, Fall, 1989. Reproduced by permission.
  • COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SC, VOLUME 69, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

    Blits, Jan H. From an Introduction to The Insufficiency of Virtue: “Macbeth” and the Natural Order. Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Rowman & Littlefield. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Blanpied, John

    W. From Time and the Artist in Shakespeare’s English Histories. Edited by Harold Bloom. University of Delaware Press, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Associated University Presses. Reproduced by permission.—Bowers, Fredson. From “Theme and Structure in King Henry IV, Part I,” in Drama of the Renaissance: Essays for Leicester Bradner. Edited by Elmer M. Blistein. Brown University Press, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by Brown University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Brissenden, Alan. From an Introduction to The Oxford Shakespeare: As You Like It. Clarendon Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Clarendon Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Brooke, Nicolas. From an Introduction to The Oxford Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Macbeth. Edited by Nicolas Brooke. Clarendon Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Clarendon Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Davis, Jo Ann. From “Henry IV: From Satirist to Satiric Butt,” in Aeolian Harps: Essay in Literature in Honor of Maurice Browning Cramer. Edited by Donna G. Fricke and Douglas C. Fricke. Bowling Green University Press, 1976. Copyright © 1976 by Bowling Green University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ferrucci, Franco. From “Macbeth and the Imitation of Evil,” in The Poetics of Disguise: The Autobiography of the Work in Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare. Translated by Ann Dunnigan. Cornell University Press, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Cornell University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Foakes, R. A. From “Images of Death: Ambition in Macbeth,”in Focus on “Macbeth.” Edited by John Russell Brown. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Routledge & Kegan Paul. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ford, Jane M. From “The Triangle in William Shakespeare,” in Patriarchy and Incest from Shakespeare to Joyce. University Press of Florida, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by University Press of Florida. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Garber, Marjorie. From “The Education of Orlando,” in Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan: Change and Continuity in the English and European Dramatic Tradition. Edited by A.R. Braunmuller and

    J.C. Bulman. University of Delaware Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by University of Delaware Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gelven, Michael. From “Silvius,” in Truth and the Comedic Art. State University of New York Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by State University of New York Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Leggatt, Alexander. From “The Shadow of Antioch: Sexuality in Pericles, Prince of Tyre,”in Parallel Lives: Spanish and English National Drama, 1580-1680. Edited by Louise and Peter Fothergill-Payne. Bucknell University Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Bucknell University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Marriette, Amelia. From “Urban Dystopias: Reapproaching Christine Edzard’s As You Like It,”in Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle.Edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray. Macmillan, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Macmillan. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—McCabe, Richard A. From “Shakespeare,” in Incest, Drama and Nature’s Law, 1550-1700. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Melchiori, Giorgio. From an Introduction to The Second Part of King Henry

    IV. Cambridge University Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Meyers, Walter E. From “Hal: The Mirror of All Christian Kings,” in A Fair Day in the Affections: Literary Essays in Honor of Robert B. White, Jr. Edited by Jack D. Durant and M. Thomas Hester. The Winston Press, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by The Winston Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Ryan, Kiernan. From “The Future of History in Henry IV,”in Henry IV, Parts One and Two. Edited by Nigel Wood. Open University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Open University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Slights, Camille Wells. From “Changing Places in Arden: As You Like It,” in Shakespeare’s Comic Commonwealths. University of Toronto Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by University of Toronto Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.—Ure, Peter. From “Macbeth,” in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama: Critical Essays by Peter Ure. Edited by J. C. Maxwell. Liverpool University Press, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by Liverpool University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

    PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SC, VOLUME 69, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

    Abbey, Graham (left of center) as Henry, Prince of Wales, Douglas Campbell as Sir John Falstaff (sitting in chair) and Diane D’Aquila as Mistress Quickly, with members of the company, from Act II, scene iv of a 2001 Stratford Festival production of Henry IV, Part One, written by William Shakespeare, directed by Scott Wentworth, photograph by Michael Cooper. Reproduced by permission of the The Stratford Festival.—Beldon, Eileen (left) as Audrey and Henry Hewitt as Touchstone, scene from a production of As You Like It, at Regent’s Park Open-Air Theatre in London, England, photograph. Hulton/Archive. Reproduced by permission.—Campbell, Douglas (center left) as Sir John Falstaff and Graham Abbey as King Henry V, wearing cape and crown, with members of the company, from Act V, scene v of a 2001 Stratford Festival production of Henry IV, Part II, written by William Shakespeare directed by Scott Wentworth, photograph by Michael Cooper. Reproduced by permission of The Stratford Festival.—Close, Glenn (left) as Gertrude, kissing Alan Bates as Claudius, scene from the 1990 film Hamlet, based on the play by William Shakespeare, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, photograph. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—King Lear, lying ill in bed, being visited by Cordelia and anxious courtiers, in a scene from the play King Lear, written by William Shakespeare, engraving after a painting by Robert Dudley. Hulton/Archive. Reproduced by permission.—(Left to right) Jaques, Duke Senior, Celia, Rosalind, unidentified man holding torch, Orlando, Audrey and Touchstone, all standing together in a forest, from Act V, scene IV of As You Like It, written by William Shakespeare, engraving. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—(Left to right) Rachel Hornor, Melissa Brooks, and Andrea Stuart Douglas as the witches, stirring pot that is sitting on a portable stove, from Act IV, scene i of a 2001 Greenstage production of Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, directed by Ken Holmes, photograph by Ken Holmes. Copyright © GreenStage. Reproduced by permission.—Loch, Stephen, Tara Jensen and Laurie Winogrand as travelers (center), being tied up and taunted by (left to right) Kathleen Ulrich as Peto, Mark McQuinn as Gadshill, Donnal MacEllis as Falstaff and Craig Johnson as Bardolph, from a 2000 Greenstage production of Henry IV, Part One, written by William Shakespeare, photograph by Ken Holmes. Copyright © Green-Stage. Reproduced by permission.—Lyn, Jared as Macbeth, wearing shoulder armor and helmet, from Act I, scene iii of a Summer 2001 Greenstage production of Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, directed by Ken Holmes, photograph by Ken Holmes. Copyright © GreenStage. Reproduced by permission.—Lyn, Jared (left) as Macbeth and Jeff Spaulding (right) as Macduff, both men wearing helmets and armor, dueling with sticks, from Act V, scene viii of a 2001 Greenstage production of Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, directed by Ken Holmes, photograph by Ken Holmes. Copyright © Greenstage. Reproduced by permission.—Marr, Jason (left) as Prince Hal and Stephen Loch (right) as Douglas, dueling with swords, scene from a 2000 Greenstage production of Henry IV, Part One, written by William Shakespeare, photograph by Ken Holmes. Copyright © GreenStage. Reproduced by permission.—McGown, Liz as Lady Macbeth, reading a piece of paper, from Act I, scene v of a Summer 2001 Greenstage production of Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, directed by Ken Holmes, photograph by Ken Holmes. Copyright © GreenStage. Reproduced by permission.—Pericles standing on steps amid clouds, holding stick in right hand and large book in left hand, scene from William Shakespeare’s play Pericles, Prince of Tyre, visible at top, engraving from Verplanck edition of Shakespeare’s Works. Reproduced by permission.— Robinson, Jay (right) and Katharine Hepburn (left), kneeling during a wedding ceremony presided by Aubrey Mather (center), scene from a 1950 production of As You Like It, written by William Shakespeare, at the Cort Theater in New York, photograph. Hulton/Getty. Reproduced by permission.—Rosalind (center), handing chain from her neck to Orlando (left), while her cousin Celia (right), stands behind her, from Act I, scene ii of As You Like It, written by William Shakespeare, engraving. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan.

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