This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare and over his lifetime, Wells has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland and its thirty chapters are divided into themed sections: "Shakespearian Influences," "Essays on Particular Works," "Shakespeare in the Theatre," and "Shakespeare's Text." An afterword by Margreta de Grazia concludes the volume.
Author(s): Stanley Wells, Paul Edmondson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 494
City: Oxford
Cover
Shakespeare on Page & Stage
Copyright
EDITORIAL PREFACE
CONTENTS
Introduction
Part I: SHAKESPEARIAN INFLUENCES
1: Shakespeare: Man of the European Renaissance
2: Tales from Shakespeare
Editions cited
(a) Charles and Mary Lamb
(b) Other authors
Part II: ESSAYS ON PARTICULAR WORKS
3: The Failure of The Two Gentlemen of Verona
4: The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear: A Structural Comparison
5: The Integration of Violent Action in Titus Andronicus
6: The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet
7: Juliet’s Nurse: The Uses of Inconsequentiality
8: The Lamentable Tale of Richard II
9: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Revisited
10: Translations in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
11: The Once and Future King Lear
12: Problems of Stagecraft in The Tempest
The opening scene
Text versus spectacle?
The ship as microcosm
Problems of narrative and character
Dramatizing moral contrasts
The love-test and betrothal
Masque as medium—and as message
Crisis, calculation—and renunciation
13: ‘My Name is Will’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Autobiography
14: Shakespeare Without Sources
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
15: Shakespeare and Romance
Part III: SHAKESPEARE IN THE THEATRE
16: Boys Should be Girls: Shakespeare’s Female Roles and the Boy Players
The question of the ‘adult’ women
The scant surviving evidence
The late plays
The case of the Dream
A conclusion
17: Staging Shakespeare’s Ghosts
18: Staging Shakespeare’s Apparitionsand Dream Visions
Introduction
19: Shakespeare in Planché’s Extravaganzas
I
II
III
IV
20: Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm’s Theatre Criticism
21: Shakespeare in Leigh Hunt’s Theatre Criticism
22: Shakespeare in Hazlitt’s Theatre Criticism
23: Peter Hall’s Coriolanus,
Part IV: SHAKESPEARE’S TEXT
24: On Being a General Editor
25: Editorial Treatment of Foul-Paper Texts: Much Ado About Nothing as Test Case
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
26: Money in Shakespeare’s Comedies
27: To Read a Play: The Problem of Editorial Intervention
28: The First Folio: Where Should We be Without it?
II
29: The Limitations of the First Folio
Afterword
NOTES
1. Shakespeare: Man of the European Renaissance
2. Tales from Shakespeare
3. The Failure of The Two Gentlemen of Verona
4. The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear: A Structural Comparison
5. The Integration of Violent Action in Titus Andronicus
6. The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet
7. Juliet’s Nurse: The Uses of Inconsequentiality
8. The Lamentable Tale of Richard II
9. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Revisited
10. Translations in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
11. The Once and Future King Lear
12. Problems of Stagecraft in The Tempest
13. My Name is Will’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Autobiography
14. Shakespeare Without Sources
15. Shakespeare and Romance
16. Boys Should be Girls: Shakespeare’s Female Roles and the Boy Players
17. Staging Shakespeare’s Ghosts
18. Staging Shakespeare’s Apparitions and Dream Visions
19. Shakespeare in Planché’s Extravaganzas
20. Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm’s Theatre Criticism
21. Shakespeare in Leigh Hunt’s Theatre Criticism
22. Shakespeare in Hazlitt’s Theatre Criticism
23. Peter Hall’s Coriolanus,
24. On Being a General Editor
25. Editorial Treatment of Foul-Paper Texts: Much Ado About Nothing as Test Case
26. Money in Shakespeare’s Comedies
27. To Read a Play: The Problem of Editorial Intervention
28. The First Folio: Where Should We be Without it?
29. The Limitations of the First Folio
SELECT LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Books
Edited Works
Articles
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
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