The Achievement of Robert WeimannGraham Bradshaw, Tom Bishop, David Schalkwyk The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. This year the volume includes a special section on "Updating Shakespeare," looking at Shakespearean adaptation in several countries. Contributors to the volume come from the US and the UK, Poland, Japan and Brazil. |
Contents
SPECIAL SECTION The Achievement of Robert Weimann | 1 |
Performance in Shakespeares Theatre Ministerial andor Magisterial? | 3 |
Traction Control | 31 |
The Spectator the Text and Ezekiel | 39 |
Text and Performance Reiterated A Reproof Valiant or Lie Direct? | 47 |
Shakespeare Performance Studies | 77 |
Authors Voice? Acting with Authority in Early References to Shakespeare | 93 |
The Authors Accomplice or the Unsearchable Complicities of Players in the Making of Elizabethan Drama | 119 |
Bifold Adam Shakespeare Milton and the Actors Voice | 165 |
Grose Indecorum Contrarietie ViceDescendants and the Power of Comic Performance Weimann and Shakespeare Among the Neoclassicals | 183 |
PART II | 205 |
Rusting Bright and Resting Weapons A Textual Crux and Closure in Romeo and Juliet | 207 |
Circes in Ephesus Civic Affiliations in The Comedy of Errors and Early Modern English Identity | 231 |
If imagination amend them Lucretius Marlowe Shakespeare | 257 |
Twicetellyed Tales | 281 |
Disciplining Unexpert People Childrens Dramatic Practices and PageStage Tensions in Early English Theatre | 143 |
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