Rematerializing Shakespeare Authority and

This collection does not offer a single theoretical stance on any of the various forms of critical materialism, but rather demonstrates that the materiality of Shakespeare is multidimensional and consists of the imagination, the intended, and the desired. An all-star line-up of contributors include Kate McLuskie, Terence Hawkes, Jean Howard, David Scott Kastan, Catherine Belsey and Doug Bruster. http://www.bryanreynolds.com

Bryan Reynolds is Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. William N. West is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University, USA. He has taught previously at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Stanford University, the Universities of California at Berkeley and Nevada at Reno.

List of Illustrations

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Acknowledgments

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Notes on Contributors

xi

Introduction Shakespearean Emergences: Back from Materialisms to Transversalisms and Beyond

1

(16)

Bryan Reynolds & William N. West

Part I The Form and Pressure of the Time: Popular and Unpopular Traditions

17

(56)

1 'Strike All that Look Upon With Marvel': Theatrical and Theological Wonder in The Winter's Tale

19

(16)

Huston Diehl

2 Performance and Urban Space in Shakespeare's Rome, or 'S.P.Q.L.'

35

(18)

D.J. Hopkins

3 Shakespeare's Little Boys: Theatrical Apprenticeship and the Construction of Childhood

53

(22)

Catherine Belsey

Part II What's the Matter? Revisions and Reversions in Pen and Voice

73

(86)

4 Rematerializing Shakespeare's Intertheatricality: The Occidental/Oriental Halimpsest

75

(20)

Jonathan Gil Harris

5 The Politics of Shakespeare's Prose

95

(20)

Douglas Bruster

6 Mercutio's Bad Language

115

(15)

William N. West

7 Nanti Everything

130

(9)

Terence Hawkes

8 Authority and the Early Modern Theatre: Representing Robert Weimann

139

(22)

John Drakakis

Part III Creatures Sitting at a Play: The Authority and Representation of Audiences

159

(67)

9 Homo Clausus at the Theatre

161

(25)

David Hillman

10 Figuring the Consumer for Early Modern Drama

186

(21)

Kathleen McLuskie

11 The Delusion of Critique: Subjunctive Space, Transversality, and the Conceit of Deceit in Hamlet

207

(19)

Anthony Kubiak & Bryan Reynolds

Index

226

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Rematerializing Shakespeare Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage

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