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by Emma Smith

, rather than at a modern edition, which will have smoothed out these interesting and revealing textual niggles. There’s more about the new theatre of Blackfriars in Sarah Dustagheer’s Shakespeare’s Two Playhouses: Repertory and Theatre Space and the Globe and the Blackfriars, 1599–1613 (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

  CHAPTER 19: THE WINTER’S TALE

  Samuel Beckett’s prose work ‘Worstward Ho’ (1983) was published in Nohow On (John Calder Publishing, 1992). Greene’s Pandosto is reprinted in Geoffrey Bullough’s Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare.

  CHAPTER 20: THE TEMPEST

  Michael Dobson’s book The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare Adaptation and Authorship, 1660–1769 (Clarendon Press, 1992) is excellent on the establishment of ‘Shakespeare’, and the quotation from Pope is taken from it. The Enchanted Island is reprinted in Sandra Clark’s anthology Shakespeare Made Fit: Restoration Adaptations of Shakespeare (J. M. Dent, 1997). Auden’s poetic sequence ‘The Sea and the Mirror’ was published in For the Time Being (Faber, 1945). Gordon McMullan’s book Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2007) discusses the connotations of ‘lateness’ in stimulating and learned ways. Lytton Strachey’s comment on The Tempest comes from his 1904 essay ‘Shakespeare’s Final Period’ and was published in his Books and Characters (Chatto and Windus, 1922); Edward Dowden’s Shakespeare: A Critical Study of this Mind and Art was first published in 1875 and is much reprinted. Gary Taylor’s caustic commentary was published in The Guardian on 3 May 2004, the anniversary of Shakespeare’s fortieth birthday (given calendrical differences). Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle was first published in 1920 and included in volume 18 of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, edited by James Strachey. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy is widely available in print, including in my Five Revenge Tragedies (Penguin Classics, 2012), and online at , the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama; Jonson’s The Alchemist is printed in Volpone and Other Plays (Penguin Classics, 2004). On The Tempest and colonialism, the essays in the Norton critical edition, edited by Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman, are recommended (W. W. Norton, 2004). Aimé Césaire’s Une Tempête, translated into English by Richard Miller, was published in 2002 (Theatre Communications Group). The two Arden editions, almost half a century apart, are Kermode’s Arden second edition (Methuen, 1954) and the Vaughans’ Arden third edition (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 1999; revised in 2011).

  Acknowledgements

  This Is Shakespeare has its genesis in wide discussions about Shakespeare in lots of different academic, theatrical and literary contexts, and I am thankful for all those conversations. More specifically, I would like to acknowledge the audiences at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, and beyond, who have listened to these ideas in an earlier form via the lecture series podcast ‘Approaching Shakespeare’ (available from Apple Podcasts), and especially those who have been willing to discuss them with me. In preparing the lectures for publication, I am indebted to Esther Osorio Whewell, and also to Catherine Clarke, Chloe Currens, David Dwan, Polly Findlay, Kate Harvey, Laurie Maguire, Moses Mathias, Alex Preston, Peter Robinson, Josie Rourke and Viv Smith for their feedback, dialogue and support. I am grateful to the many other Shakespeareans in the theatre and in academia whose work has deeply influenced my thinking and my approach over many years, and to all the Hertford students with whom I’ve had the privilege of puzzling over Shakespeare together. This book is for Elizabeth Macfarlane, with love.

  Index

  The page references in this index correspond to the print edition from which this ebook was created, and clicking on them will take you to the the location in the ebook where the equivalent print page would begin. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.

  A

  Acts and Monuments (Foxe) 117

  Admiral’s Men 118, 171

  Adorno, Theodor 163

  Aeneid (Virgil) 269

  agency 3, 71–2, 74–5, 197, 241–5, 248–53

  Alchemist, The (Jonson) 315

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll) 89

  All for Love (Dryden) 262

  All is True (Henry VIII) (Shakespeare and Fletcher) 14, 34, 306

  Alleyn, Edward 171, 172

  All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare) 86, 197, 207, 314, 321

  Almereyda, Michael 161

  Anatomy of Melancholy, The (Burton) 239–40, 241, 243, 254

  Anouilh, Jean 71, 81

  Antigone (Anouilh) 71

  Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare) 255–70, 272

  Ariosto, Orlando Furioso 134

  Aristotle 223, 290

  As You Like It (Shakespeare) 87, 155, 157, 190, 197, 198, 253, 297, 299, 321

  Auden, W. H. 221, 307–8

  – ‘Prospero to Ariel’ 308

  – ‘The Sea and the Mirror’ 308

  authorial intention 272, 273, 298

  authorship controversy 173

  B

  Bamber, Linda, Comic Women, Tragic Men 257

  Barton, John 60, 63

  Bate, Jonathan 216

  Baudrillard, Jean 151

  Beardsley, Monroe C., ‘The Intentional Fallacy’ 272

  Beckett, Samuel 43, 163, 231, 232

  – Waiting for Godot 43, 231–2

  – Worstward Ho 291

  Benedict, Ruth 262, 266

  Bergson, Henri 51

  – Le Rire (Laughter) 50

  Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud) 313

  Bhardwaj, Vishal 161

  Bible 16, 122

  Bingo (Bond) 274

  biographical scholarship 173–5, 274, 277–8, 306, 309–10

  Bishops’ Ban 157, 158, 160

  Blackfriars theatre 284, 308

  blank verse 56, 61, 124, 180, 231

  blocking figures 79, 133–4, 144, 222, 315

  Bloom, Henry 119, 127

  Bogdanov, Michael 60

  Bond, Edward, Bingo 274

  Boyd, Michael 31

  Bradley, A. C. 229–30, 236

  – Shakespearean Tragedy 230

  Branagh, Kenneth 129, 140, 172

  Bringing Up Baby (film) 141

  Brook, Peter 231

  Brooke, Arthur, The tragicall history of Romeus and Juliet 73–4

  Burbage, Richard 26, 27–8, 214, 256–7

  Burke, Edmund 227

  Burton, Richard 9

  Burton, Robert, The Anatomy of Melancholy 239–40, 241, 243, 254

  C

  ‘Cardenio’ (Shakespeare and Fletcher) 306

  Carroll, Lewis, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 89

  Catholicism 169, 170

  celebrity 255, 265, 266

  censorship 65, 157, 158–60

  Césaire, Aimé 324

  – Une Tempête 318

  Chamberlain’s Men see Lord Chamberlain’s Men

  Chaplin, Charlie 48

  – Modern Times 41, 48

  Chaste Maid in Cheapside, A (Middleton) 201

  Chimes at Midnight (film) 126

  Christianity 216, 230, 231

  Chronicles (Holinshead) 245, 247

  Cibber, Colly 26

  Cicero 182

  Cinthio (Giovanni Battista Giraldi) 195, 197

  city comedy 200–201

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 49, 228, 229

  colonialism 318–19

  comedy

  – Antony and Cleopatra 268

  – city comedy 200–201

  – The Comedy of Errors 40, 45, 49–51

  – farce 49–50, 268

  – Hamlet 173

  – Measure for Measure 193–4, 197–200, 202–7

  – The Merchant of Venice 103

  – A Midsummer Night’s Dream 88, 92, 95, 97

  – Much Ado About Nothing 131, 143

  – New Comedy 133

  – Othello 220
–22

  – romantic comedy 88, 92, 131, 191, 199, 206

  – Romeo and Juliet 75, 79–80

  – The Tempest 307

  – and tragedy 45, 79–80, 143, 173, 186–7, 221–2, 290–92

  – Twelfth Night 179, 186–9, 191

  – The Winter’s Tale 289, 292, 295, 296

  Comedy of Errors, The (Shakespeare) 39–51, 70, 96, 293, 299, 310

  Coriolanus (Shakespeare) 26, 266, 271–85, 298

  Coronado, Celestino 161

  Crisp, Quentin 161

  cuckoldry 138, 222

  Cumberbatch, Benedict 2

  Cymbeline (Shakespeare) 87, 297, 306

  D

  Daemonologie (James I) 250

  Daltry, Roger 46

  Dante, Inferno 148

  Davenant, William, The Enchanted Island 304–5

  Davies, Russell T. 85

  death 179, 201–2, 205, 231, 236, 307, 308

  Dench, Judi 172

  desire

  – Measure for Measure 194, 196, 197, 200, 201

  – A Midsummer Night’s Dream 84–5, 92–5, 97

  – same-sex desire 109, 186

  – Twelfth Night 177, 184, 186

  – The Winter’s Tale 296–9

  deus ex machina device 32–3, 194

  DiCaprio, Leonardo 78

  diegesis 294, 305

  Disney, Walt 83, 161

  Dollimore, Jonathan 232–3

  Doran, Gregroy 165

  doubling 39–40, 42–4, 46, 95–7, 161–2, 166, 190, 299

  Dowden, Edward 311–12, 315, 317

  Dr Faustus (Marlowe) 310, 313

  dramatic irony 299, 300

  dreams 92–4, 97, 150–51, 153, 300

  Dryden, John 304, 324

  – All for Love 262

  – The Enchanted Island 304–5

  Duffy, Carol Ann 137

  dumbshows 60, 63, 171

  E

  Eagleton, Terry 223

  Edward II (Marlowe) 56, 310

  Eliot, T.S. 40, 163

  Elizabeth I, Queen 64–5, 167, 169, 171, 250

  Elton, W. R. 231

  Emmerich, Roland 121

  Enchanted Island, The (Dryden and Davenant) 304–5

  English Shakespeare Company 60

  epilogues 321–4

  Everett, Barbara 231

  Everyman (play) 45–6

  Eyre, Richard 166

  F

  Faerie Queene, The (Spenser) 70, 170

  Falstaff character 28, 113, 115–22, 125, 126–8, 267

  farce 49–50, 268

  father figures

  – Hamlet 166–7, 174

  – 1 Henry IV 119, 125

  – The Winter’s Tale 296–8

  The Female Eunuch (Greer) 9

  feminism 21, 218

  Field, Richard 272–3

  First Folio collection 13, 35, 44, 80–81, 234–5, 281, 282, 309

  Fletcher, John 306, 308, 311, 324

  – All is True (Henry VIII) 14, 34, 306

  – ‘Cardenio’ 306

  – The Tamer Tamed 14–15, 20

  – The Two Noble Kinsmen 14, 134, 182, 306, 308

  Forman, Simon 252

  Foxe, John, Acts and Monuments 117

  Frayn, Michael, Noises Off 49–50

  Freud, Sigmund 100, 163, 167, 171, 173, 277, 282, 313

  – Beyond the Pleasure Principle 313

  – The Interpretation of Dreams 167

  – The Psychopathology of Everyday Life 277

  friendship 182, 186

  Frye, Northrop 190–91

  Fuseli, Henry, Macbeth paintings 255

  G

  Galileo Galilei 3

  Garrick, David 26, 163

  gender

  – and female roles 258

  – Measure for Measure 199–200

  – Much Ado About Nothing 137–8

  – The Taming of the Shrew 15, 16, 20–21

  – Twelfth Night 185, 189

  Gesta Romanorum 100

  ghosts 164–6, 169, 170–71, 300

  Gibson, Mel 2

  Gielgud, John 172, 305

  Giraldi, Giovanni Battista (Cinthio) 195, 197

  Globe theatre 158, 252, 253, 269, 284, 288, 306

  Golding, Arthur 156

  Goold, Rupert 60

  Gorboduc (Norton and Sackville) 171

  Greenaway, Peter 305

  Greenblatt, Stephen 170

  Greene, Robert, Pandosto 295–6, 298, 299, 301

  Greer, Germaine, The Female Eunuch 9

  grief 173–5, 291

  grotesque 232

  guilt 262, 263, 264, 265, 291

  H

  Haider (film) 161

  Hall, Joseph 158

  hamartia 290

  Hamlet (Shakespeare) 2, 33, 57, 116, 119, 161–75, 224, 285, 310, 314

  Harvey, Gabriel 158

  Hawke, Ethan 161

  Hawks, Howard 141

  Hazlitt, William 119, 228, 276

  Hemingway, Ernest 234

  1 Henry IV (Shakespeare) 28, 34, 113–28, 147, 156, 166, 194, 267, 287

  2 Henry IV (Shakespeare) 67, 117, 126, 128

  Henry V (Shakespeare) 13, 34, 57, 65, 67, 157

  Henry VI plays (Shakespeare) 25, 36, 57, 174

  Henry VIII (All is True) (Shakespeare and Fletcher) 14, 34, 306

  Hero and Leander (Marlowe) 310

  Heston, Charlton 172

  Heywood, Thomas 186–7, 222

  His Girl Friday (film) 141

  History of King Lear, The (Tate) 225, 226, 227

  history plays

  – Coriolanus 280

  – Hamlet 166, 168

  – 1 Henry IV 113

  – King Lear 235, 236

  – Macbeth 245

  – Richard II 54, 62, 63, 64, 66

  – Richard III 31–6

  Hobbes, Thomas, Leviathan 72

  Holbein, Hans, The Ambassadors 177

  Holinshead, Raphael 55, 245, 246, 247, 250

  – Chronicles 245, 247

  Holler, Wenceslaus 288

  Hollow Crown (TV series) 56

  homosexuality 109, 112, 181–2, 186, 191

  Hooke, Robert, Micrographia 3

  Horace 32

  Hoskins, Bob 221

  hysteron proteron 75, 76, 79, 81

  I

  iambic pentameter 1, 25

  identity 44–5, 49, 219, 280, 282, 285

  imitatio 70

  incest 296–7, 298, 299, 301

  Independence Day (film) 121

  Inferno (Dante) 148

  inset plays 18, 171, 314

  intention 272, 273, 298

  The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud) 167

  intersectionality 218, 219

  Irving, Henry 119

  Islam 216

  J

  James I, King 203, 223, 246, 250, 288

  – Daemonologie 250

  Jew of Malta, The (Marlowe) 310

  Johnson, Samuel 118, 226–7, 233

  Jolson, Al 33

  Jonson, Ben 210, 239, 312, 315

  – The Alchemist 315

  Joyce, James, Ulysses 162

  Julius Caesar (Mankiewicz film) 255

  Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) 53, 116, 145–60, 266, 272, 323

  K

  Kani, John 209

  Kantorowicz, Ernst 58

  Kemp, Will 143

  Kermode, Frank 318

  Kerr, David 85

  King John (Shakespeare) 174–5

  King Lear (Shakespeare) 40, 57, 75, 129, 145, 190, 223–37, 287, 297, 322

  King’s Men 256, 288, 324

  Kitchen, Michael 46

  Kott, Jan 95, 231–2

  – Shakespeare Our Contemporary 63, 163, 231

  Kyd, Thomas 172, 239, 323

  – The Spanish Tragedy 170–71, 314

  L

  Lacan, Jacques 163

  Lamb, Charles 83

  Lamb, Mary 83

  Landseer, Sir Edwin, Titania
and Bottom 89

  laughter 50, 51

  Lennox, Charlotte 206

  – Shakespear Illustrated 193

  Leonard, Robert Sean 140

  Leviathan (Hobbes) 72

  Lion King, The (film) 161

  Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Plutarch) 156, 272–3

  Lochhead, Liz, ‘Men Talk’ 198

  Loncraine, Richard 33

  Lord Chamberlain’s Men 25, 26, 66, 117, 118, 143, 215, 256, 324

  Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare) 187

  Lucas, George 33, 34

  Luhrmann, Baz, Romeo and Juliet (film) 69, 78

  Luther, Martin 169

  M

  Macbeth (Shakespeare) 33, 48, 72, 145–7, 239–54, 256–7, 264, 271, 287, 299

  ‘Macbeth Murder Mystery, The’ (Thurber) 242–3

  Macbeth on the Estate (TV adapation) 246

 

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