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English Renaissance Drama
The twelve distinguished scholars who have contributed to this volume are: Alfred Harbage, G. K. Hunter, Bernard Beckerman, G. P. V. Akrigg, Clifford Leech, Joan Webber, Virgil Whitaker, Geoffrey Bullough, Maurice Charney, Robert Ornstein, Jonas Barish, and Eugene M. Waith.The essays, of general interest to readers of the drama, constitute a fitting tribute to two great teachers who for some forty years have lent academic brilliance to the Department of English in the University of Wisconsin."
Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama
Bruce Boehrer's book is the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus primarily on ecological issues.
Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines
"Kendall's method is not to give full-scale interpretations of individual plays and poems or to attempt a conventional Canterbury/Cambridge/London appraisal of Marlowe's life, but rather to take the reader along a rough chronological path that traces the life of Richard Baines, picking suitable spots to break off the narrative and analyze Marlowe's writings and actions and reinterpret known events connected with his life and with Baines's (especially where they overlap). By offering fresh primary evidence, Kendall is able to suggest new ways in which each influenced the life of the other - especially how Baines influenced and affected Marlowe."--BOOK JACKET.
Leicester's Men and their Plays
The first full history of the first great Elizabethan play company, responsible for developing the main features of Shakespearean theatre.
Shakespeare's Lives
This volume presents a study of the changing images and differing ways that the life of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has been interpreted throughout history. The author takes readers on a tour of the countless myths and legends which have arisen to explain the great dramatist's life and work, bringing the story right up to 1989. He reconstructs as much of the elusive author's life as possible, considering his family history, his economic standing, and his reputation with his peers; the Shakespeare who emerges may not always be the familiar one.
John Payne Collier
John Payne Collier (1789–1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare's age, Collier was at the same time the promulgator of a great body of forgeries and false evidence, seriously affecting the text and biography of Shakespeare and many others. This monumental two-volume work for the first time addresses the whole of Collier's activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures. Arthur and Janet Freeman reassess the scholar-forger's long life, milieu, and relations with a large circle of associates and rivals while presenting a chronological bibliography of his extensive publications, all fully annotated with regard to their creditability. The authors also survey the broader history of literary forgery in Great Britain and consider why so talented a man not only yielded to its temptations but also persisted in it throughout his life.
