Writing about Shakespeare

Abstract

Part I: 1. Having our Will: imagination in recent Shakespeare biographies Lois Potter 2. Toward a new biography of Shakespeare James Shapiro 3. Jonson, Shakespeare and the exorcists Richard Dutton 4. 'Lending soft audience to my sweet design': shifting roles and shifting readings of Shakespeare's 'A Lover's Complaint' Heather Dubrow 5. 'Armed at point exactly': the ghost in Hamlet R. A. Foakes 6. Writing about motive: Isabella, the Duke and moral authority Anna Kamaralli 7. Writing performance: how to elegize Elizabethan actors Tobias Doring 8. Elizabeth Montagu: 'Shakespear's poor little critick'? Fiona Ritchie 9. Rewriting Lear's untender daughter: Fanny Price as a Regency Cordelia in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park Clara Calvo 10. The prequel as palinode: Mary Cowden Clarke's Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines Sarah Annes Brown 11. Shakespeare among the workers Andrew Murphy 12. Virginia Woolf reads Shakespeare: or her silence on Master William Julia Briggs 13. Shakespeare and the invention of the epic theatre: working with Brecht Charles Edelman 14. Dramatising the dramatist Peter Holland 15. Shakespeare in drama since 1990: vanishing act Jill L. Levenson 16. Writing about [Shakespearean] performance Michael Dobson 17. Shakespeare and the prospect of presentism Ewan Fernie 18. Writing Shakespeare in the global economy Mark Thornton Burnett 19. The 'complexion' of Twelfth Night Janet Clare 20. Translation as appropriation: Vassilis Rotas, Shakespeare and modern Greek Tina Krontiris 21. How old were Shakespeare's boy actors? David Kathman 22. Mistress Taleporter and the triumph of time: slander and old wive's tales in The Winter's Tale Marion Wells 23. Shakespeare performances in Ireland, 2002-4 Janet Clare 24. Shakespeare performances in England, 2003-4 Michael Dobson 25. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 2003 James Shaw Part II. The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Ruth Morse 2. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Emma Smith 3. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Eric Rasmussen.