Reviews
"Offers a step in a new direction for the analysis of early modern drama. The collection contains strong and rich studies on the topics of reception, experience, and formal considerations ... The work contained in each essay will be valuable both to those interested in themes of time in Shakespeare's age, or to scholars looking for insights into the individual plays under discussion." -- Early Theatre, Offers a step in a new direction for the analysis of early modern drama. The collection contains strong and rich studies on the topics of reception, experience, and formal considerations ... The work contained in each essay will be valuable both to those interested in themes of time in Shakespeare's age, or to scholars looking for insights into the individual plays under discussion., "A luminous collection of essays that explore Shakespeare's capacity to score time like music." - Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 "Offers a step in a new direction for the analysis of early modern drama. The collection contains strong and rich studies on the topics of reception, experience, and formal considerations ... The work contained in each essay will be valuable both to those interested in themes of time in Shakespeare's age, or to scholars looking for insights into the individual plays under discussion." -- Early Theatre
Table of Content
List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowlegementsNote on Texts1. Introduction: Forms of Time (Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, USA)Part One: Illuminating2. Shakespeare's theater of comic time (Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland, College Park, USA)3. Suspense Revisited: The Shared Experience of Time (Raphael Falco, University of Maryland, USA)4. "In the Course and Process of Time": Rupture, Reflection and Repetition in Henry VIII (Philip Lorenz, Cornell University, USA) Part Two: Synthesizing5. Is Henry V still a history play? (Andrew Griffin, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 6. Allusion, Temporality, and Genre in Pericles and Troilus and Cressida (Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, USA) Part Three: Misaligning 7. Love's Labours Lost and the Layered Temporality of Poetic Reception (Matthew Harrison, Albion College, USA) 8. Timing The Knight of the Burning Pestle: G enre, Style, and Performance (Lucy Munro, King's College, London, UK)9. Time, Tragedy and the Text of Antony and Cleopatra (Rebecca Bushnell, University of Pennsylvania, USA)Part Four: Proliferating10. "The Death of Fathers": Succession and Diachronic Time in Shakespearean Tragedy (William C. Carroll, Boston University, USA)11. Passionate Time in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam (Lara Dodds, University of Mississippi, USA) 12. Future Histories in King Lear (Meredith Beales, University of Victoria, Canada) Part Five: Pleating13. Last Judgement to Leviathan: The Semiotics of Collective Temporality in Early Modern England (Robin Scott Stewart, University of California, Irvine, USA)14. Cymbeline , Janus, and Folded Time (Valerie Wayne, University of Hawaii, USA)NotesIndex
