Edited by Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray
Foreword by Michael Almereyda and Dakin Matthews
ISBN 978-0-7864-3405-3
ca. 55 photos, filmography, notes, bibliography, index
softcover (7 x 10) 2009
Not Yet Published, Available Spring/Summer 2009
Description
Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. Shakespeare himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright’s medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped and informed his works. With an introduction by Michael Almereyda, director of Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke, and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare’s plays.
About the Author
Martha W. Driver is Distinguished Professor of English at Pace University.
Sid Ray is a Professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Pace University.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vi
FOREWORD: “THE SKELETON IN THE MIRROR”
Michael Almereyda and Dakin Matthews 1
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray 7
Part I. “Abstract and Brief Chronicles of Time”: The Histories
INTRODUCTION TO PART I
Martha W. Driver 21
“Richard’s Himself Again”: The Body of Richard III on Stage and Screen
Jim Casey 27
Falstaff in America
Catherine Loomis 49
Scoring the Fields of the Dead: Musical Styles and Approaches to Postbattle Scenes from Henry V (1944, 1989)
Linda K. Schubert 62
Part II. “Carnal, Bloody, and Unnatural Acts”: The Tragedies
INTRODUCTION TO PART II
Martha W. Driver 81
“We’re Everyone You Depend On”: Filming Shakespeare’s Peasants
Carl James Grindley 89
Medieval Hamlet in Performance
Patrick J. Cook 105
Finding Gruoch: The Hidden Genealogy of Lady Macbeth in Text and Cinematic Performance
Sid Ray 116
Part III. “Many Merry Men”: The Comedies
INTRODUCTION TO PART III
Sid Ray 135
Reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream through Middle English Romance
Martha W. Driver 140
“Chaucer ... the Story Gives”: Troilus and Cressida and The Two Noble Kinsmen
Julia Ruth Briggs 161
Shakespeare’s Virgin Mother on the Modern Stage: All’s Well, That Ends Well and the Madonna del Parto Tradition
Gary Waller 178
Part IV. “Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral”: The Romances
INTRODUCTION TO PART IV
Sid Ray 195
“The Quick and the Dead”: Performing the Poet Gower in Pericles
Kelly Jones 201
Shakespeare as Medievalist: What It Means for Performing Pericles
R. F. Yeager 215
A Touch of Chaucer in The Winter’s Tale
Louise M. Bishop 232
Caliban’s God: The Medieval and Renaissance Man in the Moon
Kim Zarins 245
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 263
INDEX 267