A Shakespeare Reader Sources and Criticism

This rich collection of critical and secondary material has been selected to assist in the study of Shakespeare's plays. It includes a selection of sources and analogues Shakespeare drew upon in writing nine of his major works as well as a variety of widely divergent critical interpretations of the plays over the last sixty years.

Richard Danson Brown and David Johnson are Lecturers in Literature at the Open University.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgements

xi

Illustrations

xv

Part One Sources and Analogues

1

(58)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584)

1

(2)

Reginald Scot

From Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book IV

3

(3)

Arthur Golding

Richard II

From A Myrroure for Magistrates (1559): `How kyng Richarde the seconde was for his evyll governaunce deposed from his seat and miserably murdered in prison'

6

(4)

Macbeth

Chronicles (1587)

10

(9)

Raphael Holinshed

Antony and Cleopatra

From Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes

19

(7)

Sir Thomas North

Hamlet

The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1582--92)

26

(5)

Thomas Kyd

`Of Revenge' (1625)

31

(1)

Sir Francis Bacon

Twelfth Night

Riche his Farewell to Militaire Profession (1581)

32

(7)

Barnabe Riche

Measure for Measure

Hecatommithi (1583)

39

(7)

G. B. Giraldi Cinthio

King Lear

The Faerie Queene (1590--6)

46

(2)

Edmund Spenser

Arcadia (1590)

48

(3)

Sir Philip Sidney

The Tempest

From `The Strachey Letter' (1610)

51

(5)

From Ovid, Metamorphoses

56

(3)

Part Two Critical Readings

59

(234)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

`The Imperial Votaress'

60

(11)

Louis Montrose

`The Staging of a Midsummer Night's Dream, 1595--1895'

71

(12)

Jay L. Halio

Interval One: Shakespeare's Theatre

`The Elizabethan Drama'

83

(10)

Robert Weimann

Richard II

`The Political Background of Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV'

93

(11)

John Dover Wilson

`Richard II'

104

(11)

Jean E. Howard

Phyllis Rackin

Macbeth

`How Many Children had Lady Macbeth?'

115

(14)

L. C. Knights

`Macbeth: History, Ideology and Intellectuals'

129

(12)

Alan Sinfield

`Macbeth on Film: Politics'

141

(7)

E. Pearlman

Antony and Cleopatra

`Jacobean Antony and Cleoptra'

148

(13)

H. Neville Davies

`Squeaking Cleopatras. Gender and Performance in Antony and Cleopatra'

161

(9)

Juliet Dusinberre

`Spatial Politics'

170

(6)

Ania Loomba

Interval Two: Editing Shakespeare's Plays

`What is an Editor?'

176

(6)

Stephen Orgel

Hamlet

`Hamlet -- the Mona Lisa of Literature'

182

(10)

Jacqueline Rose

`Telmah'

192

(12)

Terence Hawkes

Twelfth Night

`Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night'

204

(14)

C. L. Barber

`The Two Antonios and Same-Sex Love in Twelfth Night and the Merchant of Venice'

218

(7)

J. Pequigney

Measure for Measure

`Measure for Measure'

225

(11)

F. R. Leavis

`London in Measure for Measure'

236

(11)

Leah Marcus

King Lear

`From Hamlet to Lear'

247

(8)

Arnold Kettle

`The Absent Mother in King Lear'

255

(11)

Coppelia Kahn

`Grigori Kozintsev's King Lear'

266

(4)

Alexander Leggatt

The Tempest

```What Cares These Roarers for the Name of King?'': Language and Utopia in the Tempest'

270

(10)

David Norbrook

`African and Caribbean Appropriations of the Tempest'

280

(13)

Rob Nixon

Part Three Critical Interventions

293

(29)

`The National Poet'

293

(12)

Jonathan Bate

`The Present Tense'

305

(7)

Gary Taylor

`New Ways to Play Old Texts. Discourses of the Past'

312

(10)

Susan Bennet

Index

322

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