Table of Contents
Preface x
Acknowledgments xiv
Part I Authorship 1
1 Looney and the Oxfordians 4 S. Schoenbaum
Part II New Criticism 15
2 The Naked Babe and the Cloak of Manliness 19 Cleanth Brooks
3 ‘‘Honest’’ in Othello 35 William Empson
4 ‘‘Introductory’’ Chapter About the Tragedies 50 Wolfgang Clemen
5 The ‘‘New Criticism’’ and King Lear 63 William R. Keast
Part III Dramatic Kinds 89
6 The Argument of Comedy 93 Northrop Frye
7 Ambivalence: The Dialectic of the Histories 100 A. P. Rossiter
8 The Saturnalian Pattern 116 C. L. Barber
9 The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies 125 Maynard Mack
Part IV The 1950s and 1960s: Theme, Character, Structure 149
10 Reflections on the Sentimentalist’s Othello 152 Barbara Everett
11 Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet 164 Harry Levin
12 King Lear or Endgame 174 Jan Kott
13 The Cheapening of the Stage 191 Anne Righter [Barton]
14 How Not to Murder Caesar 209 Sigurd Burckhardt
Part V Reader-Response Criticism 221
15 On the Value of Hamlet 225 Stephen Booth
16 Rabbits, Ducks, and Henry V 245 Norman Rabkin
Part VI Textual Criticism and Bibliography 265
17 The New Textual Criticism of Shakespeare 269 Fredson Bowers
18 Revising Shakespeare 280 Gary Taylor
19 Narratives About Printed Shakespeare Texts: ‘‘Foul Papers’’ and ‘‘Bad Quartos’’ 296 Paul Werstine
Part VII Psychoanalytic Criticism 319
20 ‘‘Anger’s my meat’’: Feeding, Dependency, and Aggression in Coriolanus 323 Janet Adelman
21 The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear 338 Stanley Cavell
22 To Entrap the Wisest: Sacrificial Ambivalence in The Merchant of Venice and Richard III 353 René Girard
23 What Did the King Know and When Did He Know It? Shakespearean Discourses and Psychoanalysis 365 Harry Berger, Jr.
24 The Turn of the Shrew 399 Joel Fineman
Part VIII Historicism and New Historicism 417
25 The Cosmic Background 422 E. M. W. Tillyard
26 Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V 435 Stephen Greenblatt
27 The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies 458 Jean E. Howard
28 ‘‘Shaping Fantasies’’: Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture 481 Louis Adrian Montrose
Part IX Materialist Criticism 511
29 Shakespeare’s Theater: Tradition and Experiment 515 Robert Weimann
30 King Lear (ca. 1605–1606) and Essentialist Humanism 535 Jonathan Dollimore
31 Give an Account of Shakespeare and Education, Showing Why You Think They Are Effective and What You Have Appreciated About Them. Support Your Comments with Precise References 547 Alan Sinfield
Part X Feminist Criticism 565
32 Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony and Cleopatra Criticism 570 L. T. Fitz [Linda Woodbridge]
33 ‘‘I wooed thee with my sword’’: Shakespeare’s Tragic Paradigms 591 Madelon Gohlke Sprengnether
34 The Family in Shakespeare Studies; or Studies in the Family of Shakespeareans; or The Politics of Politics 606 Lynda E. Boose
35 Disrupting Sexual Difference: Meaning and Gender in the Comedies 633 Catherine Belsey
Part XI Studies in Gender and Sexuality 651
36 ‘‘This that you call love’’: Sexual and Social Tragedy in Othello 655 Gayle Greene
37 The Performance of Desire 669 Stephen Orgel
38 The Secret Sharer 684 Bruce R. Smith
39 The Homoerotics of Shakespearean Comedy 704 Valerie Traub
Part XII Performance Criticism 727
40 Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre 732 Gerald Eades Bentley
41 The Critical Revolution 745 J. L. Styan
42 William Shakespeare’s Romeo þ Juliet : Everything’s Nice in America? 750 Barbara Hodgdon
43 Deeper Meanings and Theatrical Technique: The Rhetoric of Performance Criticism 762 William B. Worthen
Part XIII Postcolonial Shakespeare 777
44 Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: The Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest 781 Francis Barker and Peter Hulme
45 Sexuality and Racial Difference 794 Ania Loomba
46 Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest 817 Meredith Anne Skura
Part XIV Reading Closely 845
47 Shakespeare’s Prose 848 Jonas A. Barish
48 The Play of Phrase and Line 861 George T. Wright
49 Transfigurations: Shakespeare and Rhetoric 880 Patricia Parker
Index 908