Shakespeare the man : new decipherings

310 Pages·2014·1.465 MB·English

by  Joseph Candido, Charles R. Forker, Lisa Hopkins, Mythili Kaul, John Mahon, John O'Meara, Shormishtha Panja, Subhajit Sen Gupta, Stuart Sillars, Grace Tiffany, R. S. White

Shakespeare the Man

Shakespeare the Man
New Decipherings
Edited by R. W. Desai
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction:ShakespearetheMan:NewDecipherings ix
R.W.Desai
1 Shakespeare’sPlaywrights 1
GraceTiffany
2 TheHistoryoftheShakespearesandtheShakespearesin
theHistories 17
JosephCandido
3 1592–1594:Shakespeare’s“Other”LostYears 53
R.S.White
4 Greene,Harvey,Nashe,andthe“Making”ofFalstaff 67
MythiliKaul
5 “Lookinthecalendar”:JuliusCaesarandShakespeare’s
Cultural-PoliticalMoment 85
SubhajitSenGupta
6 “ButIhavethatwithinwhichpassethshow”:Shakespeare’s
AmbivalencetowardHisProfession 101
R.W.Desai
7 “Thoselipsthatlove’sownhanddidmake”:Anne
HathawayandShakespeare’sVenusandAdonis 121
ShormishthaPanja
8 Shakespeare’sChurches 135
LisaHopkins
9 ShakespeareandtheRhythmsofDevotion 147
StuartSillars
10 OutbravingLuther:Shakespeare’sFinalEvolutionthrough
theTragediesintotheLastPlays 157
JohnO’Meara
11 ShakespeareamongtheJesuits 183
JohnW.Mahon
12 WasShakespearea“ChurchPapist”oraPrayerBook
Anglican? 199
CharlesR.Forker
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vi Contents
Index 265
AbouttheContributors 277
Acknowledgments
IamgratefultoCharlesR.Forkerforhavingseenvirtueinthisenterprise
at the outset; to Harry Keyishian for his generous encouragement and
probing questions that gave the book its focus; to June Schlueter for her
impeccable editorial skills and scholarship; to Susan Cerasano for her
valuable suggestions in the initial stages of this venture; and to Saleem
Anwer, Deputy Librarian at Delhi University, for his professional help
andcourtesy.
An earlier version of my essay on “Shakespeare’s Ambivalence to-
ward His Profession” appeared in The Shakespeare Newsletter, Winter
2006/07. I thank the editors of that journal for permission to reprint. For
permissiontoquotefromWalterdelaMare’s“Falstaff”inMythiliKaul’s
essay,IthanktheLiteraryTrusteesofWalterdelaMareandtheSociety
ofAuthorsastheirRepresentative.
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