Early Modern Drama in Performance

Darlene Farabee is associate professor in the English Department at the University of South Dakota.Mark Netzloff is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.Bradley D. Ryner is associate professor of English at Arizona State University.

This collection brings together essays on the topics of Shakespeare, theater history, and early English drama in performance by scholars influenced by the pioneering work of Lois Potter.

Introduction by Darlene Farabee, Mark Netzloff, and Bradley D. RynerChapter 1: Dramatic Verse and Early Modern Playgoers in Marlowe's Time by Roslyn L. KnutsonChapter 2: The Usurer's Theatrical Body: Refiguring Profit in The Jew of Malta and The Blind Beggar of Alexandria by Bradley D. RynerChapter 3: Theater of Anatomy: The Tragedy of Hoffman by Peter HylandChapter 4: 'Know you this ring?': Metonymic Functions of a Prop by Ann Thompson and John O. ThompsonChapter 5: Editing and Staging The Revenger's Tragedy: Three Problems by Alan C. DessenChapter 6: The 'most unsavoury similes' and Henry IV, Part One by Darlene FarabeeChapter 7: Shakespeare's Cognitive Vision by Arthur KinneyChapter 8: Shakespeare's Conception of Tragedy: The Middle Tragedies by Jay L. HalioChapter 9: Shakespeare or not Shakespeare?: The propogation of the text in Europe through J. F. Ducis's 'Imitations' by Michèle WillemsChapter 10:Un/natural Perspective: Viola on the late nineteenth-century stage by Virginia Mason VaughanChapter 11: Reading, Recitation, and Entertainments: The Dunedin Shakespeare Club, 1877-1956by Evelyn TribbleChapter 12: The power of Shakespeare's word in twentieth-century Prague by Zden¿k St¿íbrný Chapter 13: Showtime: Temporality and the Video Archive of Julius Caesar at the RSCby Andrew Hartley