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HAKESPEARE UARTERLY Published by the Folger Shakespeare Library VOLUME 44 NUMBERS 1-4 From the Editor ARTICLES Performing Social Practice: The Example of Measure for Measure “*A Thing Unfirm’’: Plato’s Republic and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar BARBARA L. PARKER Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare: Samuel Badcock, A Would-Be Editor The Ashbourne Portrait of Shakespeare: Through the Looking Glass WILLIAM L. PRESSLY Building the Fortune JOHN ORRELL Philip Henslowe, Simon Forman, and the Theatrical Community of the 1590s S. P. CERASANO Three Reluctant Patrons and Early Shakespeare ANDREW GURR The Politics of Patronage: Dramatic Records in Robert Dudley’s Household Books SALLY-BETH MACLEAN Shylock, Robert Miles, and Events at the Theatre HERBERT BERRY The Pictured Playhouse: Reading the Utrecht Engraving of Shakespeare’s London JAMES P. LUSARDI The Materiality of the Shakespearean Text MARGRETA DE GRAZIA and PETER STALLYBRASS Shakespeare and the Middling Sort THEODORE B. LEINWAND **An essence that’s not seen’’: The Primal Scene of Racism in Othello Hands, Feet, and Bottoms: Decentering the Cosmic Dance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream SKILES HOWARD Man of Steel Done Got the Blues: Melancholic Subversion of Presence in Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare’s ‘‘Manly’’ Parts: Masculinity and Effeminacy in Troilus and Cressida Reading, Writing, and Hamlet Masculine Negotiations in Shakespeare’s History Plays: Hal, Hotspur, and ‘‘the foolish Mortimer’ NoTEs The ‘‘Unrecorded Portrait’ of Edward Alleyn JOHN H. ASTINGTON Essex and Shakespeare versus Hayward William Kemp at the Globe Ovid and the Tempest in Othello The Topos of ‘‘Inversion of Values” in Hero’s Depiction of Beatrice SHAKESPEARE PERFORMED Shakespeare at the Guthrie: The Tempest Through a Glass, Darkly RANDALL LOUIS ANDERSON Othello in Vienna, 1991 MARVIN CARLSON Shakespeare at Stratford- upon-Avon, 1992 ROBERT SMALLWOOD Shakespeare in Canada: The Stratford Season, 1992 The Winter’s Tale Retold Book REVIEWS Janet Adelman. Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare’s Plays, Hamlet to The Tempest. Bruce R. Smith. Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England: A Cultural Poetics. Jeanne Addison Roberts. The Shakespearean Wild: Geography, Genus, and Gender. CAROLYN RUTH SWIFT Leeds Barroll. Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare’s Theater: The Stuart Years. René Girard. A Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare. Cynthia Marshall. Last Things and Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology. Ejner J. Jensen. Shakespeare and the Ends of Comedy. James Shapiro. Rival Playwrights. Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare. VIRGINIA MASON VAUGHAN Marvin Spevack, ed. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. ROY FLANNAGAN Charlotte F. Otten, ed. English Women’s Voices, 1540-1700. MARGARET P. HANNAY Judd D. Hubert. Metatheater: The Example of Shakespeare. W. B. WORTHEN Grace loppolo. Revising Shakespeare. MARGRETA DE GRAZIA Michael Warren. The Complete King Lear 1608-1623. Roger Warren. Staging Shakespeare's Late Plays. GARY JAY WILLIAMS David Mann. The Elizabethan Player: Contemporary stage representation. DAVID BEVINGTON Ann Jennalie Cook. Making a Match: Courtship in Shakespeare and His Society. N. W. Bawcutt, ed. The Oxford Shakespeare Measure for Measure. ROBERT N. WATSON Marjorie Garber. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. CATHERINE BELSEY John Gross. Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend. JAY L. HALIO Hanna Scolnicov and Peter Holland. Reading Plays: interpretation and reception. James P. Lusardi and June Schlueter. Reading Shakespeare in Performance: King Lear. ALAN C. DESSEN Winfried Schleiner. Melancholy, Genius, and Utopia in the Renaissance. CAROL THOMAS NEELY Paul Bertram and Bernice W. Kliman, eds. The Three-Text Hamlet: Parallel Texts of the First and Second Quartos and First Folio. Annabel Patterson. Reading Between the Lines. Donna B. Hamilton. Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England. DEBORA KULLER SHUGER Valerie Wayne, ed. The Matter of Difference: Materialist Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare. MARY BETH ROSE Jonathan Hart. Theater and World: The Problematics of Shakespeare's History. Jean I. Marsden, ed. The Appropriation of Shakespeare: Post-Renaissance Reconstructions of the Works and the Myth. Virginia Mason Vaughan and Kent Cartwright, eds. Othello: New Perspectives. Gregory W. Bredbeck. Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton. Richard Helgerson. Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England. GEORGIANNA ZIEGLER 502 CONTRIBUTORS 117, 246, 377, 506 CPT Sa Fes