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Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.
Contents
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD: "THE SKELETON IN THE MIRROR"
Michael Almereyda and Dakin Matthews
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray
Part I. "Abstract and Brief Chronicles of Time": The Histories
INTRODUCTION TO PART
Martha W. Driver
"Richard's Himself Again": The Body of Richard III on Stage and Screen
Jim Casey
Falstaff in America
Catherine Loomis
Scoring the Fields of the Dead: Musical Styles and Approaches to Postbattle Scenes from Henry V (1944, 1989)
Linda K. Schubert
Part II. "Carnal, Bloody, and Unnatural Acts": The Tragedies
INTRODUCTION TO PART
Martha W. Driver
"We're Everyone You Depend On": Filming Shakespeare's Peasants
Carl James Grindley
Medieval Hamlet in Performance
Patrick J. Cook
Finding Gruoch: The Hidden Genealogy of Lady Macbeth in Text and Cinematic Performance
Sid Ray
Part III. "Many Merry Men": The Comedies
INTRODUCTION TO PART
Sid Ray
Reading A Midsummer Night's Dream through Middle English Romance
Martha W. Driver
"Chaucer ... the Story Gives": Troilus and Cressida and The Two Noble Kinsmen
Julia Ruth Briggs
Shakespeare's Virgin Mother on the Modern Stage: All's Well, That Ends Well and the Madonna del Parto Tradition
Gary Waller
Part IV. "Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral": The Romances
INTRODUCTION TO PART
Sid Ray
"The Quick and the Dead": Performing the Poet Gower in Pericles
Kelly Jones
Shakespeare as Medievalist: What It Means for Performing Pericles
R. F. Yeager
A Touch of Chaucer in The Winter's Tale
Louise M. Bishop
Caliban's God: The Medieval and Renaissance Man in the Moon
Kim Zarins
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX