Shakespeare

Introduction. Acknowledgements. 1. Authorship. Looney And The Oxfordians. (S. Schoenbaum). 2. New Criticism. The Naked Babe And The Cloak Of Manliness. (Cleanth Brooks). 'Honest' In Othello. William Empson. 'Introductory' Chapter About The Tragedies. (Wolfgang Clemen). The 'New Criticism' And 'King Lear'. (William R. Keast). 3. Dramatic Kinds. The Argument Of Comedy. (Northrop Frye). Ambivalence: The Dialectic Of The Histories. (A.P Rossiter). Introduction: The Saturnalian Pattern. (C. L. Barber). The Jacobean Shakespeare. (Maynard Mack). 4. THE 1950s and '60s: Structure, Theme, Character. Reflections On The Sentimentalist's Othello. (Barbara Everett). Form And Formality In Romeo And Juliet. (Harry Levin). King Lear Or Endgame. (Jan Kott). The Cheapening Of The Stage. (Anne Righter). How Not To Murder Caesar. (Sigurd Burckhardt). 5. Reader-Response Criticism. On The Value Of Hamlet. (Stephen Booth). Rabbits, Ducks, And (Henry V. Norman Rabkin). 6. Textual Criticism And Bibliography. The New Textual Criticism Of Shakespeare. (Fredson Bowers). Revising Shakespeare. Gary Taylor. Narratives About Printed Shakespeare Texts: 'Foul Papers' And 'Bad Quartos'. (Paul Werstine). 7. Psychoanalytic Readings. 'Anger's My Meat': Feeding, Dependency, And Aggression In Coriolanus. (Janet Adelman). The Avoidance Of Love: A Reading Of King Lear. (Stanley Cavell). To Entrap The Wisest: Sacrificial Ambivalence In The Merchant Of Venice And Richard III. (Rene Girard). What Did The King Know And When Did He Know It? Shakespearean Discourses And Psychoanalysis. (Harry Berger, Jr). The Turn Of The Shrew. (Joel Fineman). 8. Historicism And New Historicism. Introductory: The Cosmic Background. (E.M.W. Tillyard). Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority And Its Subversion, Henry IV And (Henry V. Stephen Greenblatt). The New Historicism In Renaissance Studies. (Jean Howard). Shaping Fantasies: Figurations Of Gender And Power In Elizabethan Culture. (Louis Adrian Montrose). 9. Materialist

Russ McDonald is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has written extensively on Shakespeare and early modern literature and culture, most recently in Shakespeare and the Art of Language (2001) and The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (Second Edition, 2001).