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Volume 64

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

Michelle Lee

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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 EXCERPTS IN SC, VOLUME 64, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Cahiers Élisabéthains, 1991; April, 1997; October, 1997; October, 2000. All rights reserved. All reproduced by permission of the publisher.—CLA Journal, v. 38, September, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by The College Language Association. Used by permission of The College Language Association.—ELH, v. 50, Autumn, 1983. Copyright © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—English Literary Renaissance, v. 23, Spring, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by English Literary Renaissance. Reproduced by permission.—English Studies in Canada, v. 10, March, 1984 for “Words, Acts, and Things: Visual Language in Coriolanus,” by Jean MacIntyre; v. 17, March, 1991 for “Kates for the Table and Kates of the Mind: A Social Metaphor in The Taming of the Shrew,” by Randall Martin. Copyright © Association of Canadian University Teachers of English 1984, 1991. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the authors.— English: The Journal of the English Association, v. 40, Summer, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in Literature,

v. 19, Fall, 1992. Reproduced by permission of Western Illinois University.—Iowa State Journal of Research, v. 59, February, 1985. Reproduced by permission.—Literature and Psychology, v. 35, 1989. Reproduced by permission.— Modern Philology, v. 92, February, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission.— The New Republic, v. 223, July 10-17, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—New Theatre Quarterly, v. 2, August, 1986 for “The Touring of the Shrew,” by Geraldine Cousin. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Renaissance Drama, New Series, v. 26, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Review of English Studies, v. 51, August, 2000 for “‘Manhood and Chevalrie’: Coriolanus, Prince Henry, and the Chivalric Revival,” by Robin Headlam Wells. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Shakespeare Quarterly, v. 41, Winter, 1990; v. 43, Summer, 1992; v. 46, Autumn, 1995 Copyright © The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1990, 1992, 1995. All reproduced by permission.—Shakespeare Studies, v. 12, 1979; v. 18, 1986. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Shakespeare Survey, v. 37, 1984 for “The Good Marriage of Katherine and Petruchio,” by David Daniell; v. 37, 1984 for “Shrewd and Kindly Farce,” by Peter Saccio. Both reproduced by permission of publisher.—Shakespeare Yearbook, v. 2, Spring, 1991; v. 10, 1999. Both reproduced by permission.—Studia Neophilologica, v. 51, 1979. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in English Literature 1500-1900,

v. 23, Spring, 1983; v. 29, Spring, 1989; v. 31, Spring, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in the Literary Imagination, v. 26, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—TCI: The Business of Entertainment, Technology, and Design, v. 32, May, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Texas Studies in English Literature and Language, v. 37, Fall, 1995 for “Katherine of The Taming of the Shrew: ‘A Second Grissel’” by Carolyn E. Brown. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Times Literary Supplement, November 5, 1993; January 28, 2000; June 30, 2000; February 16, 2001. Copyright © The Times Supplements Limited 1993, 2000, 2001. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.

COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN SC, VOLUME 64, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Baldwin, T. W. From On the Literary Genetics of Shakespeare’s Poems & Sonnets. University of Illinois Press, 1950. Copyright © 1950 by University of Illinois Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Bradbrook, M. C. From Shakespeare in His Context: The Constellated Globe: The Collected Papers of Muriel Bradbrook: Volume VI. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Harvester Wheatsheaf. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Corum, Richard. From Renaissance Culture and the Everyday. Edited by Patricia Fumerton and Simon Hunt. University Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by University Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Crowley, Richard C. From Shakespeare’s Late Plays: In Honor of Charles Crow. Edited by Richard C. Tobias and Paul G. Zolbrod. Ohio University Press, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by Ohio University Press. All rights

reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Garner, Shirley Nelson. From Bad Shakespeare: Revaluations of the Shakespeare Cannon. Edited by Maurice Charney. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Goldman, Michael. From Acting and Action in Shakespearean Tragedy. Princeton University Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Greene, Thomas M. From The Vulnerable Text: Essays on Renaissance Literature. Columbia University Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hall, Jonathan. From Anxious Pleasure: Shakespearean Comedy and the Nation-State. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Richards, I. A. From “The Sense of Poetry: Shakespeare’s The Phoenix and the Turtle,”in American Critical Essays: Twentieth Century. Edited by Harold Beaver. Oxford University Press, 1959. Copyright © 1959 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Watson, Robert N. From Shakespeare and the Hazards of Ambition. Harvard University Press, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Harvard University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Anderson, Mary as Maria, Douglas Rain as Boyet, Michael Learned as Katherine, Zoe Caldwell as Rosaline, and Joy Parker as the Princess of France in a scene from Love’s Labour’s Lost, photograph. The Stratford Festival. Reproduced by permission.—Branagh, Kenneth as Berowne and Alicia Silverstone as Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost, 2000, photograph. Kobal Collection/Laurie Sparham/Miramax. Reproduced by permission.—Branagh, Kenneth as Berowne, Matthew Lillard as Longaville, Alessandro Nivola as King of Navarre, and Lester Adrian as Dumaine, 2000, photograph. Kobal Collection/Laurie Sparham/Miramax. Reproduced by permission.—Dinicol, Keith as Grumio, Colm Feore as Petruchio, David Lloyd-Evans as a Servant, Juan Chioran as a Servant, and Goldie Semple as Katherina in a scene from The Taming of the Shrew, photograph by Michael Cooper. The Stratford Festival. Reproduced by permission.—Gascon, Sophie as Lady in Waiting, Barbara Maczka as Katharine, Robert McClure as French Lord, Domini Blythe as Rosaline, Barbara Stewart as Maria, Martha Henry as Princess of France, and William Webster as Boyet in a scene from William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, photograph. The Stratford Festival. Reproduced by permission.—Learned, Michael as Virgilia, Eleanor Stuart as Volumnia, Pat Galloway as Valeria, and members of the Festival Company in a scene from Coriolanus, photograph by Peter Smith. The Stratford Festival. Reproduced by permission.—Long, Andrew as Coriolanus in a scene from the Washington Shakespeare Theatre production of Coriolanus, 2000, Washington, D.C., photograph. AP/Wide World. Reproduced by permission.—Monette, Richard as Berowne, Domini Blythe as Rosalind, Alan Scarfe as King of Navarre, Martha Henry as Princess of France, and members of the Festival Company in a scene from Love’s Labour’s Lost, photograph. The Stratford Festival. Reproduced by permission.—Quasifacsimile title page of the 1601 editon of Loves Martyr, photograph. Special Collections, The University of Michigan Library. Reproduced by permission.—Scoﬁeld, Paul as Coriolanus, Bernard Behrens as Sicinius, Bruno Gerussi as Brutus, Douglas Campbell as Menenius, and members of the Festival Company in a scene from Coriolanus, photograph by Peter Smith. The Stratford Festival. Reproduced by permission.—Stuart, Eleanor as Volumnia, Paul Scoﬁeld as Coriolanus, Michael Learned as Virgilia, John Colicos as Tullus Auﬁdius, and a member of the Festival Company in a scene from Coriolanus, photograph by Peter Smith. The Stratford Festival. Reproduced by permission.—Taylor, Elizabeth as Katherina and Richard Burton as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, 1967, photograph. Kobal Collection/Columbia. Reproduced by permission.—Taylor, Elizabeth as Katherina and others in a scene from The Taming of the Shrew, 1967, photograph. Kobal Collection/Columbia. Reproduced by permission.— Text from the last page of 1601 edition of The Phoenix and Turtle. Special Collections University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Waldron, Jan as Katherina and Ward Beauchamp as Lucentio in a scene from The Taming of the Shrew, photograph. Copyright © 1997 Michigan Shakespeare Festival. Reproduced by permission.—Waldron, Jan as Kate and David Alexander Blixt as Petruchio in a scene from The Taming of the Shrew, photograph. Copyright © 1997 Michigan Shakespeare Festival. Reproduced by permission.

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