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Volume 79

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 79, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Allegorica, v. 6, Winter, 1981. Copyright © 1981 Allegorica. Reproduced by permission.—Comparative Drama, v. 31, Fall, 1997. Copyright Western Michigan University, Department of English, Fall 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Early Modern Literary Studies, v. 5, September, 1999. Copyright © 1999, Lisa Hopkins (Editor, EMLS). Reproduced by permission.—ELH, v. 26, December, 1959. © 1959 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in Criticism, v. L, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Essays in Criticism. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in Literature, v. I, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by Western Illinois University. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, v. 29, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, v. 32, June, 1999. Copyright MOSAIC, June 1999. Reproduced by permission.—New York Magazine, v. 34, December 24, 2001. Copyright © 2002, New York Metro, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—The New York Times, 1998; December 10, 2001; June 23, 2002; December 24, 2002. Copyright © 1998, 2001, 2002 by New York Times. Reproduced by permission.—New York, v. 31, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by New York. Reproduced by permission.—Philological Quarterly, v. 54, 1975; v. 80, Winter, 2001. Copyright © 1975, 2001 by The University of Iowa, founded in 1847 as The State University of Iowa. Reproduced by permission.—Raritan, v. 21, Spring, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Raritan: A Quarterly Review. Reproduced by permission.—Shakespeare Quarterly, v. 12, Spring, 1963; v. 26, Summer, 1975; v. 31, Autumn, 1980; v. 32, Spring, 1981; v. 33, Winter, 1982; v. 35, Summer, 1984; v. 36, Winter, 1985; v. 52, Spring, 2001. Copyright © 1963, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 2001 Folger Shakespeare Library. Reproduced by permission.—Shakespeare Studies, v. 30, 2002. Copyright Associated University Presses, 2002. Reproduced by permission.—Shakespeare Survey, v. 21, 1968. Copyright © Leah Scragg 1968. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.—Stage Directions, v. 14, December, 2001. Copyright Lifestyle Ventures, December 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, v. 36, Spring, 1996; v. 42, Winter, 2002. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Theatre Journal, v. 48, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Theatre Survey, v. 39, May, 1998. Copyright © 1998 Theatre Survey. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, February 18, 2000; July 12, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Times Literary Supplement. Reproduced by permission.—Variety, v. 373, 1998; v. 385, December 17-23, 2001; v. 387, August 5-11, 2002. Copyright © 1998, 2001, 2002 Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Village Voice, v. 46, December 18, 2001. Copyright © V. V. Publishing Corporation. Reproduced by permission of The Village Voice.—Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2001. Copyright © 2001 Dow Jones & Company Inc. Reproduced by permission of The Wall Street Journal.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SC, VOLUME 79, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Bicks, Caroline. From “Backsliding at Ephesus: Shakespeare’s Diana and the Churching of Women” in Pericles: Critical Essays. Edited by David Skeele. Copyright © 2000. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc.—Corum, Richard. From “Henry’s Desires,” in Premodern Sexualities. Edited by Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero. Routledge, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Routledge. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/ Taylor & Francis Books, Inc.—Dubrow, Heather. From “’Upon Misprison Growing&apos: Venus and Adonis,” in Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays. Edited by Kolin, Philip. Copyright © 1997. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc.—Dubrow, Heather. From “‘This jewel holds his building on my arm’: The Dynamics of Parental Loss in Pericles,”in In the Company of Shakespeare: Essays on English Renaissance Literature in Honor of G. Blakemore Evans. Edited by Thomas Moisan and Douglas Bruster. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. Reproduced by permission.—Fultz, Lucille P. From “Devouring Discourses: Desire and Seduction in Othello,”in Othello: New Essays by Black Writers. Edited by Mythili Kaul. Howard University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1996 by Mythili Kaul. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gerard, Albert. From Aspects of Othello: Articles Reprinted from Shakespeare Survey. Edited by Kenneth Muir and Philip Edwards. Cambridge University Press, 1977. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.—Hall, Joan Lord. From Henry V: A Guide to the Play. Greenwood Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Joan Lord Hall. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Halpern, Richard. From “‘Pining Their Maws’: Female Readers and the Erotic Ontology of the Text in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis,”in Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. Copyright © 1997. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis, Inc.—Healy, Margaret. From “Pericles and the Pox,” in Shakespeare’s Late Plays: New Readings. Edited by Jennifer Richards and James Knowles. Edinburgh University Press, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Hopkins, Lisa. “‘The Shores of My Mortality’: Pericles’ Greece of the Mind,” in Pericles: Critical Essays. Edited by David Skeele. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc.—Jensen, Pamela K. From “The Famous Victories of William Shakespeare: The Life of Henry the Fifth,”in Poets, Princes, and Private Citizens: Literary Alternatives to Postmodern Politics. Edited by Joseph M. Knippenberg and Peter Augustine Lawler. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Moisan, Thomas. From “Relating Things to the State: ‘The State’ and the Subject of Othello,”in Othello: New Critical Essays. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. Copyright © 2002. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc.—Moseley, C. W. R. D. From Shakespeare’s History Plays Richard II to Henry V: The Making of a King. Penguin Books, 1988. Copyright © C. W. R. D. Moseley, 1988. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Robinson, Marsha S. From “Mythoi of Brotherhood: Generic Emplotment in Henry V,”in Shakespeare’s English Histories: A Quest for Form and Genre. Edited by John W. Velz. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1996. © Copyright 1996 Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton. Reproduced by permission.—Washington, Edward. From “‘At the Door of Truth’: The Hollowness of Signs in Othello,”in Othello: New Essays by Black Writers. Edited by Mythili Kaul. Howard University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1996 by Mythili Kaul. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SC, VOLUME 79, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Bale, Christian as Falstaff’s Boy, Ian Holm as Fluellen, and Daniel Webb as Gower in a scene from the 1989 film version of William Shakespeare’s Henry V, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Renaissance Films/BBC/Curzon Films/The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Branagh, Kenneth as Henry V and Ian Holm as Fluellen in a scene from the 1989 film version of William Shakespeare’s Henry V, directed by Branagh. Renaissance Films/BBC/Curzon Films/The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Branagh, Kenneth as Henry V in a battle scene from the 1989 film version of William Shakespeare’s Henry V, directed by Branagh. Renaissance Films/BBC/Curzon Films/The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Branagh, Kenneth as Henry V in a scene from the 1989 film version of William Shakespeare’s Henry V, directed by Branagh. Renaissance Films/BBC/Curzon Films/The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Branagh, Kenneth as Henry V, standing above men with raised fist, in a scene from the 1989 film version of William Shakespeare’s Henry V, directed by Branagh. Renaissance Films/BBC/Curzon Films/The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.— Desdemona, Duke of Venice, and Othello in a scene from William Shakespeare’s Othello, 1883 engraving by G. Goldberg. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Desdemona kneeling before Othello in Act IV, scene ii of William Shakespeare’s Othello, engraving by G. Goldberg. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Frontispiece to the 1714 edition of Venus and Adonis, engraving. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Leonine, Marina, and pirates in Act IV, scene I of William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre, engraving.—Othello and Desdemona in the bedchamber in Act IV, scene ii of William Shakespeare’s Othello, engraving. The Folger Shakespeare Library. Reproduced by permission of The Folger Shakespeare Library.—Othello, Desdemona, and attendants in Act IV, sene iii William Shakespeare’s Othello, engraving by

F. Hayman. The Folger Shakespeare Library. Reproduced by permission of The Folger Shakespeare Library.—Othello, Desdemona, Roderigo, Iago, Emilia, Cassio, Montano, Gentlemen, and attendants in Act II, scene i of William Shakespeare’s Othello.—Pericles and fishermen in Act II, scene i of William Shakespeare’s Pericles, engraving. The Folger Shakespeare Library. Reproduced by permission of The Folger Shakespeare Library.—Pericles and Lychorida in Act III, scene i of William Shakespeare’s Pericles, engraving. The Folger Shakespeare Library. Reproduced by permission of The Folger Shakespeare Library.—Pericles, Thaisa, and attendants in Act V, scene iii of William Shakespeare’s Pericles, engraving. The Folger Shakespeare Library. Reproduced by permission of The Folger Shakespeare Library.—Pistol and Fluellen in Act V, scene i of William Shakespeare’s Henry V, illustration by John Thouston. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Title page from the 1622 edition of Othello.—Title page of the First Quarto of Henry V (1600). Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Title page of Venus and Adonis (1593).—Thompson, Emma, as Katherine in a scene from the 1989 film version of William Shakespeare’s Henry V, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Renaissance Films/BBC/Curzon Films/The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.

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