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Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile Clemson University Digital Press Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile Published at The Uni11ersity of Tennessee at Martin Founding Editor William E. Bennett The University of Tennessee at Manin Editor James R. Andreas The University of Tennessee at Manin Auociate Editors Martha Y. Battle The University of Tennessee at Manin Michael M. Cohen Murray State University, Murray, Ky. Walter Haden The University of Tennessee at Manin Richard Levin The University of California, Davis John McDaniel Middle Tennessee State University Peter Pauls The University of Winnipeg; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Paul Ramsey The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Norman Sanders The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Stratford-on-Avon L. Frank Windham The University of Tennessee at Manin Ron Gifford Artist Copyright 1984, Dspartmenl of English Ths Universily of Temussee 111 MArtin All Rights Resert~ed Subscription Information Two issues • $12 Institutions and Libraries, same rate as individuals. $12 two issues UTM·E05-403().()().001-85 Essays chosen for publication do not necessarily represent opinions of the editor, associate editors, or schools with which any contributor is associated The published essays represent a diversity of approaches and opinions which we hope will stimulate interest and further scholarship. ClemsonClemson University University Digital Digital Press Press Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile About anyone so great as Shakespeare. it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile being wrong. -T. S. Eliot What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. -Walter Pater The problems (of the arts) are always indefinite, the results are always debatable, and the final approval always uncertain. -Paul Valery Submission of Manuscripts Essays submitted for publication should not exceed fifteen to twenty double-spaced typed pages, including notes. Follow journal format which is MLA style with slight variations. Quotations should be single spaced in typescript. When submitting manuscripts, send two copies-the original and one xeroxed copy. Allow six months for readers. Please encourage your libraries to subsaibe to the publication.lnstitutional rate is $12.00 for two issues of the journal. ii ClemsonClemson University University Digital Digital Press Press Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile CONTENTS Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile Portrait of William Bennett .....••.............•...•........•......•.• iv by Thel Taylor Two Elegies for William E. Bennett ..................•.................. by Paul Ramsey Nid Archodd Duw I'r Fran Deui: A Memoir of Bill Bennett .............................................. 2 by James R. Andreas Two Birds with One Stone: Lapidary Re-Inscription in The Phoenix and Turtle . ......................•.....•.................. 5 by Marjorie Garber The laea of Time in Shakespeare's Second Historical Tetralogy .............. 20 by Charles R. Forker Shylock: "His stones, his daughter, and his ducats" .........•....•..••.•... 35 by Shirley Nelson Garner Shakespeare and Dekker: Creative Interaction and the Form of Romantic Comedy ..........•......•.......................... 50 by Larry S. Champion From the Street to the Stage: Pageantry in the History Plays ............•.•. 64 by Frances Dodson Rhome "Age is Unnecessary": A Jungian Approach to King Lear •.................. 75 by H.R. Coursen The True Chronicle History of King Leir and Shakespeare's King Lear: A Reconsideration ...............•............•............. 93 by Peter Pauls Brutus' Motivation and Melancholy ....................•..............• 108 by W. Nicholas Knight Love's Labour's Lost and The Marx Brothers ........................•... 125 by Robert C. Fulton, III Falstaff-A Trickster Figure .•..........•...•......................... 135 by Edith Kern Darkness Lightened: A.L. Rowse's Dark Lady Once More ....•............. 143 by Paul Ramsey Power to Hurt: Sonnets 109-10 and 117-20 •....................•.•..•.• 146 by Michael Cameron Andrews Prince Hal's Reformation Soliloquy: A "Macro-Sonnet" ................... 152 by Dale C. Uhlmann Shakespeare's I ago: The Kierkegaardian Aesthete ....................•... 156 by William E. Bennett The Gravediggers' Scene: A Unifying Thread in Hamlet ......•.•.•••.•.•. 160 by William E. Bennett iii ClemsonClemson University University Digital Digital Press Press Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile And thou treble-dated crow, That thy sable gender mak' st With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st, 'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. -The Phoenix and Turtle William E. Bennett April 15, 1924-July 18, 1983 ClemsonClemson University University Digital Digital Press Press Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile ClemsonClemson University University Digital Digital Press Press Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile Two Elegies for William E. Bennett Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile By Paul Ramsey Where Are the Dead Absent? The dead are absent in the tracery of ferns, In the rocks and mosses of the mountainside, In the surfs clamor, in the cold moon's space Beyond the silencings of seas dismissed, In the dawn's insistence, in recurrent mist, In clouds we would barter for a late gravestone, Offered in swirls of loss and unreturned- In hopes and fears and pains and claims and trials. Return their absence, walking in the instancy of prayer. A blessing echoes lightly and replies. Song for the End of the Day Flocks by fieldlight Travel homeward. Clouds are distanced Towards arrival. Light into the darkness Reaches. Lament and celebration Waken. ClemsonClemson University University Digital Digital Press Press Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile Nid Arcbodd Duw I'r Fran Deui: Upstart Crow Vol V A Memoir of Bill Bennett Digital Facsimile by James R. Andreas Bill Bennett was given the old Welsh proverb of the title while travelling in the British Isles. He was attending a meeting of the Shakespeare Association at Stratford-upon-Avon to promote his new journal, The Upstart Crow. Bill meant to include the proverb in the issue of the Crow he never lived to complete, the present volume which will stand as a memorial for his many contributions to Shakespearean scholarship. The proverb translates: "God never intended the crow to bequiet." 1 It captures the feisty spirit of both the man and his magazine. Bill Bennett was not a quiet, patient man. He was a gentle person, to be sure, but was outspoken in his opinions about an immense range of interests. His problem was that he knew so much-about medicine, because of his undergraduate training in the area; about languages, especially Latin, which he labored to re-establish at our rural university; and, of course, about Shakespeare's poetry, which he loved above all things academic and helped to keep alive in the remote regions of western Tennessee. Bill was a brilliant conversationalist, discussing these diverse matters with a broad smile and a most contagious laugh. When he was well, he presided over "The Poet's Corner," the name given by the English faculty-with Bill's characteristic modesty-to its departmental lounge. Of course, his knowledge of Shakespeare provided the expertise to judge and edit the contributions that were sent to him from all over the United States, Canada, and England, and from such exotic places as India, Japan, and New Zealand. But the stubborn streak, sportive as it was, provided the courage to undertake ~uch an outlandish challenge in the first place-to play the "upstart crow" by publishing a journal that would be judged according to the high standards of The Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, and Shakespeare Studies. And the journal would be published in Union City and Martin, Tennessee, not at the Folger Library or at Cambridge. Actually, through most of its brief history, Bill published as well as edited The Upstart Crow. Over the years he raised fifteen thousand dollars for the journal by re-mortgaging his house. Bill's economic contribution to the Crow was all the more significant because of the astronomical medical expenses incurred during the last four years of his life. He was hospitalized again and again for a serious back injury, an automobile accident, and the series of heart attacks, strokes, and coronary operations that eventually took his life. He managed these medical payments and supported the journal on the typical professor's salary-supplemented, of course, by the generous assistance ot his 2 ClemsonClemson University University Digital Digital Press Press Upstart Crow Vol V Digital Facsimile wife, Geraldine. UpstartThrough Crow Vol V no fault of his own, the circumstances of Bill Bennett's life were Digital Facsimile never conducive to academic preference and advancement. He was a brilliant student: As valedictorian of his high school graduating class, he was awarded a scholarship to Millsaps College to prepare for a career in medicine. This lifelong ambition was to lead finally to the establishment of a course in Latin medical terminology at the university. The death of his father put him to work to help support his mother and younger brothers and sister. After years as a salesman and a printer, trades he put to good use while he published the Crow, Bill finally began his trek through the B.A. and M.A. programs