Arthur F Kinney - The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

SHAKESPEARE

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

Edited by

ARTHUR F. KINNEY

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The study of Shakespeare is rapidly changing. Scholars are redefining what he did and did not write, what it meant in his own time, and what it means to ours. Lines are being redrawn, even now; old stories are being told with new twists; our collective images of Shakespeare as a person and a poet are disintegrating and reforming. A new portrait of him has been proposed; scientific language study has assigned new writing to him and dismissed some earlier attributions; we know more about his professional associations, his playing companies, their repertoire, and the country routes they travelled; and we have learned far more about the social, political, religious, and economic times in which he lived and for which he wrote than at any time in the past. Within the Oxford Handbooks of Literature series, those devoted to the study of Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgements by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field.

Arthur F. Kinney

In Memory of

ADAM MAX COHEN 19712010

I am grateful to the many co-authors of this volume and their many suggestions; for the editorial assistance of Jeffrey Goodhind, Thomas Warren Hopper, David Katz, Philip S. Palmer, and Timothy Zajac; and to the editors at Oxford University Press, especially Andrew McNeillie, Jacqueline Baker, Kathleen Kerr, Brendan Mac Evilly, Ruth FreestoneKing, and Hayley Buckley.

A. F. K.

ARTHUR F. KINNEY

HUGH CRAIG

MACDONALD P. JACKSON

ARTHUR F. MAROTTI AND LAURA ESTILL

ANN THOMPSON

GRACE IOPPOLO

MATTEO A. PANGALLO

ADAM G. HOOKS

SONIA MASSAI

IAN W. ARCHER

JAMES KEARNEY

CATHERINE RICHARDSON

ANDREW HISCOCK

LYNNE MAGNUSSON

BRIAN GIBBONS

JANET CLARE

DAVID BEVINGTON

JAMES J. MARINO

CATHERINE BATES

ADAM ZUCKER

ALAN SOMERSET

ANDREW GURR

ROSLYN L. KNUTSON

MELISSA AARON

JANE HWANG DEGENHARDT

TANYA POLLARD

LAURY MAGNUS

DOUGLAS M. LANIER

JESSICA WOLFE

CHRISTY DESMET

REBECCA LEMON

CATHY SHRANK

ANDREW HADFIELD

BRIAN C. LOCKEY

TZACHI ZAMIR

LARS ENGLE

BRIAN CUMMINGS

FREDERICK KIEFER

ADAM MAX COHEN

FRAN TEAGUE

TON HOENSELAARS

Arthur F. Kinney, Editor, is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. His most recent books include Lies Like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment (2001), Shakespeare by Stages (2003), Shakespeares Webs (2004); and Shakespeare and Cognition (2006). He is presently at work on Shakespeare and the Minds Eye. He is a past trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Melissa Aaron is a Professor of English in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at California Polytechnic State University at Pomona. Her book Global Economics: a History of the Theater Business, the Chamberlains/Kings Men, and Their Plays, 15991642 (2005), is a history of Shakespeares theatrical company as a business. More recent essays include Beware at what hands thou receivst thy commodity: The Alchemist and the Kings Men fleece the customers, 1610, Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage (2006), and A Queen in a Beard: a Study of All-female Shakespeare Companies, Shakespeare Re-dressed: Cross-Gender Casting in Contemporary Performance (2008). Her most recent research is on the history of all-women Shakespeare companies and productions.

Ian Archer is Fellow, Tutor, and University Lecturer at Keble College, Oxford, and is the author of various books and essays on the social and political history of early modern London. He is Literary Director of the Royal Historical Society and Academic Editor of the Bibliography of British and Irish History.

Catherine Bates is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Head of Department at the University of Warwicks Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. Her books include The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature (1992); Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and Freud (1999); Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric (2007), and The Cambridge Companion to the Epic (2010). She is currently working on a book on representations of masculinity and the hunt in literature from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to The Faerie Queene.

David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. His books include From Mankind to Marlowe (1962), Tudor Drama and Politics (1968), Action Is Eloquence