The text, the play, and the Globe : essays on literary influence in Shakespeare's world and his work in honor of Charles R. Forker /

"The purpose of this book is to honor the scholarly legacy of Charles R. Forker with a series of essays that address the problem of literary influence in original ways and from a variety of perspectives. The emphasis throughout is on the sort of careful, exhaustive, evidence-based scholarship t...

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Other Authors: Forker, Charles R. (honouree.), Candido, Joseph, 1945- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison [New Jersey] : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
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ISBN:9781611478228
1611478227
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Joseph Candido
  • The ends of time in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus / Rebecca Bushnell
  • Marlowe in Edward II: lender or borrower? / Brian Vickers
  • Edward II in performance from the 1980s to the present / David Bevington
  • The transitory playhouse: the Theatre, Rose, and Fortune / S.P. Cerasano
  • Shakespeare and his fellows: honored at Somerset House? / Leeds Barroll
  • Richard II on screens / Peter Holland
  • The (mis)fortunes of Falstaff in performance / James C. Bulman
  • How the noble spanish soldier describes a battle / Lois Potter
  • The staging of the problematic attempted rape scene of the Two Gentlemen of Verona as the culmination of the play's anti-romantic thematic concerns / R.W. Desai
  • Across the narrow sea: the 1620 Leipzig volume of English plays / June Schlueter
  • Shakespearean comedy and the boundaries of Europe / Michael Dobson
  • George Wither's response to Othello
  • David M. Bergeron
  • Jonson's epigrams and the learned critics / Peter E. Medine
  • Appendix: Charles R. Forker: a bibliography of published works (1958-2014).