The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare by Shaughnessy, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Front Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Life and contexts

1 Introduction

Son of Stratford Shakespeare’s biographies

2 Shakespeare’s early years

Schooling Religion and resistance

3 A life in writing

Early sightings Making a name Plays in print Poetry and patronage Making history Poet and player The Lord Chamberlain’s Men Dangerous games: Falstaff and Essex Courting comedy Everyday entertainments This distracted Globe Little eyases The King’s Men Court dramatists Jacobean tragedy Blackfriars Collaborations and departures

4 Final years

Welcombe Will and testament Two monuments

Chronology: 1564–1644

Part II: Works

A catalogue Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3

Alarums and excursions Let’s kill all the lawyers To catch the English Crown A Talbot

The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Comedy of Errors

The letter very orderly Too long for a play Like brother and brother

Titus Andronicus

A wilderness of tigers Baked in that pie

The Taming of the Shrew Richard III Venus and Adonis and Lucrece

Desire sees best of all Graver labour

A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet

A dream past the wit of man Death-marked love

The Merchant of Venice King John and Richard II

Beginnings Endings

Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2

A double man Chimes at midnight

Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing and As You Like It

Cakes and ale A kind of merry war No clock in the forest Much virtue in ‘if’

The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V

Ashore at Windsor Star of England

Julius Caesar Hamlet

Who’s there? Hamlet’s transformations Revenge Mad in craft The readiness is all

Troilus and Cressida, All’s Well that Ends Well and Measure for Measure

Bifold authority All yet seems well Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure

Shakespeare’s Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint

Beauty’s rose Master-mistress Nothing like the sun Rich in Will This double voice

Othello

Othellophobia Othellophilia

Timon of Athens King Lear

Ye gods Monsters of the deep Every inch a king The terrors of the earth The division of the kingdom(s)

Macbeth

The milk of human kindness

Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra

O me alone Body politics The wide arch Past the size of dreaming Immortal longings

The Tempest

This island’s mine Thing of darkness Plantation of this isle

The Winter’s Tale

Things dying Things new-born

Pericles, Cymbeline and The Two Noble Kinsmen

To sing a song that old was sung … Dreams and visions Two cousins and a daughter

Henry VIII, or All Is True

Part III: Criticism

Prologue: a critical century 1 Histories

Ruling ideas In all line of order: E. M. W. Tillyard’s historicism Tillyard’s legacy Questioning authority: the 1960s Shakespeare their contemporary Refashioning the Renaissance Subversion and containment Dreams of power Connections, locations, intersections Cultural materialism Tragically radical, radically tragic Eminent Shakespeareans After theory: history bites back Materialities Presentism Spiritualities

2 Languages

Close reading Words and images Post-structuralism Truth’s true contents Language in history Rhetorics, metrics, linguistics Speaking the speech

3 Subjectivities

Character building Bradley and Freud Women’s parts The patriarchal Bard Changing the subject The boy actress Broadening the field What becomes a man Queer reading Characters reunited Children too

Part IV: Screen and stage

1 Film

Stage, page and screen The theatrical, the realist and the filmic Differences in view Textualities and sexualities World pictures A cinema for a new century Jump cuts

2 Performance

The complete Shakespeare Five decades of performance criticism The exemplary RSC Revolution and after Staging history The reinvention ofShakespeare’s Globe Enter theory From theory to practice Beyond Shakespeare Beyond words

A Shakespearean chronology: 1899–2008

Bibliography Index

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