Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens have taught Shakespeare at pre-university and degree level for many years. They lead the English Association's ongoing involvement with transition issues and lecture and publish on a range of literary topics. They are the authors of Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation.

Using this book
Introduction
Text
Shakespeare’s contemporaries
Early modern drama in its time
Performing early modern drama today

1. Defining the self
Romeo and Juliet
Getting over the language: William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)
The Duchess of Malfi
Moving performances: Malfi at the Blackfriars and the Globe

2. Money and the modern city
The Merchant of Venice
Playing the Jew: Al Pacino in Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Volpone
Volpone as beast fable

3. Performance and performativity
The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare goes to Hollywood: Burton and Taylor (1966)
The Tragedy of Mariam
Closet drama
4. Servants, masters and service
Othello
Performing Othello in the twenty-first century
The Changeling
Compulsion (2009)

5. Fatherhood, state and the dynamics of revenge
The Spanish Tragedy
Things on stage
Titus Andronicus
Julie Taymor’s Titus and the aesthetics of revenge

6. Transgressive desire
Measure for Measure
Casting Isabella
’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover: Peter Greenaway’s theatre of blood

7. Damnation
Doctor Faustus
Performing Doctor Faustus: Stage on Screen, 2010
Hamlet
A Soviet Hamlet: Grigori Kozintsev (Lenfilm, 1964)
Glossary
References

Index