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The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Margreta De Grazia and Stanley Wells Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88632-1 - The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Margreta De Grazia and Stanley Wells Index More information INDEX Note: Page numbers for illustrations are given in italics. Works by Shakespeare appear under title; works by others under author’s name. 4D art: La Tempête 296 , 297 language 83–4 , 86 , 202 , 203 , 208 performance 52 , 333 actor-managers 287 sexuality and gender 221 actors apprentices 45–6 actions and feelings 194–5 Arabic performances 297–8 globalization 287–91 Archer, William 236 performance 233–8 , 248–9 , 287–8 Arden, Mary ( later Shakespeare) xiv , in Shakespeare’s London 45–9 , 61 4 , 5 see also boy actors Arden, Robert 4 , 5 Adams, W. E. 68 ‘Arden Shakespeare’ 69 , 73 , 83 , 255 , 292 , Addison, Joseph 80–1 326 Adelman, Janet Ariosto, Ludovico: Orlando Furioso 92 Hamlet to the Tempest 338 Aristotle 88 , 122 , 128 , 138 Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Armin, Robert 46 , 98 Maternal Origin in Shakespeare’s art 339 Plays 338 As You Like It xv , 62 , 114–15 Aesop: Fables 19 categorization 171 Afghanistan 289–90 , 294 characters 46 Age of Kings, An (BBC mini-series) 313 language 17 Akala 280–1 plot devices 109 , 173 Al-Bassam, Sulayman: Richard III – An Arab sexuality and gender 218 , 219 , 223–4 Tragedy 297–8 sources 23 Alexander, Shelton 280 theatre 51 , 52 All is True see Henry VIII Ascham, Roger: The Scholemaster 18 , 20 , Allen, A. J. B. 327 22–3 Allot, Robert: England’s Parnassus 91 Aubrey, John 8 All’s Well That Ends Well xvi , 62 , 84 , audiences 116–17 , 122 , 199 , 213 , 219 audience agency 316–17 Almereyda, Michael: Hamlet 318 , 319–21 , early modern popular culture 271–3 , 274 320 media history 315–17 Amyot, Jacques 20 authors and authorship 1 , 32–4 , 61–2 , 97 , Andrews, John F.: William Shakespeare: His 291–5 , 308 World, His Work, His Infl uence 328 Autran, Paulo 290–1 anti-Stratfordianism 273 Antony and Cleopatra xvi , 62 , 162–3 Bacon, Francis 128 actors 46 Bakhtin, Michaïl 275 characters 163 , 274 Baldwin, T. W.: Shakespere’s Small Latine infl uences on 21 , 124 , 125 , 129 , 132 , 133 and Lesse Greeke 16 , 329 343 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88632-1 - The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Margreta De Grazia and Stanley Wells Index More information Index Bale, John: King Johan 146 , 147 Bowers, Fredson 254 Ball, Robert Hamilton 308 On Editing Shakespeare and the Barber, C. L.: Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy Elizabethan Dramatists 335 330 boy actors Barnfi eld, Richard 91 , 229 apprentices 45–6 Barthes, Roland 303 homoeroticism 115 , 227 , 228 Bartholomeusz, Dennis: India’s Shakespeare popularity 52 333 in private theatres 54 Bartlett, John 337 as women 107 , 195 , 207 , 218 , 226 , 227 Barton, John 248 Boyd, Michael 251 n27 Playing Shakespeare 334 Bradley, A. C.: Shakespearian Tragedy 259 , Bate, Jonathan 326 , 332 337 The Genius of Shakespeare 338 Bradshaw, Graham: Shakespeare in Japan The Romantics on Shakespeare 337 333 Shakespeare and Ovid 330 Branagh, Kenneth 278 , 307 , 308 , 334 Soul of the Age 328 Braunmuller, A. R. 327 Bayley, John 259 Brazil 290–1 Bazan, Craig 280 Brecht, Bertolt 150 , 244 , 291 BBC Television Shakespeare project 313 Bridges, Robert 272 Beaumont, Francis 33 Briggs, Julia: This Stage-Play World 329 Philaster 223 Brissenden, Alan: Shakespeare and the Bell, Alexander Graham 306 Dance 339 Bell, John 67 Bronson, Bertrand H.: Johnson on Bellour, Raymond 303 , 316 Shakespeare 337 Bennett, Alan: The Madness of George III Brook, Peter 307 150 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 246–7 , Bentley, Richard 64 247 Bernard, Sir John xiv Brooke, Arthur: Romeus and Juliet 218 Bernhardt, Sarah 287 , 288 Brooke, Peter 8–9 Berry, Cicely: The Actor and the Text 336 Brooks, Cleanth 337 Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury Brooks, Harold F. 292 222 Brower, R. A.: Hero and Saint: Shakespeare Best, George 209 , 211 and the Graeco-Roman bibliography 261 , 325–42 Tradition 330 see also New Bibliography Brown, John Russell: Shakespeare in Birmingham Repertory Theatre 242 , 244 Performance 333 Blackfriars Gatehouse 11 Browne, Sir Thomas: Pseudodoxia Blackfriars theatre 9 , 54 , 175 , 331 Epidemica 220 Blair, Tony 278–9 Buchowetzki, Dimitri: Othello (fi lm) 316 Blake, William 150 Buckingham, Duke of 229–30 Blakemore Evans, G. 325 Bullough, Geoffrey: Narrative and Dramatic Blayney, Peter 255 Sources of Shakespeare 329 Bloom, Harold 258 Burbage, Cuthbert 49 Boccaccio 108 , 117 , 126 Burbage, James 49 , 121 Bolt, Robert: A Man for All Seasons 150 Burbage, Richard 49–50 , 234–5 Bomb-itty of Errors, The 280 Burgess, Anthony: Shakespeare 328 Bookseller 68 Burgess, Joe: ‘Me vs. You’ 316 Boose, Lynda E. 334 Burnett, Mark Thornton: Screening Booth, Edwin 306 Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Booth, Stephen 10 Century 334 Boswell, James the younger 66 Burt, Richard 278 , 334 Bourdieu, Pierre 283n9 Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy Bower, Richard: Apius and Virginia 171 208 , 221 344 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88632-1 - The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Margreta De Grazia and Stanley Wells Index More information index Bury, John 245 Clark, William George 68–9 Bush, George W. 149 classical plays 153–67 ambition 153 , 159 Callaghan, Dympna: A Feminist Companion characters 153–4 , 163 to Shakespeare 338 historical contexts 154–5 , 157 Calvin, John 196–7 infl uences on 156 , 159–60 , 329–30 Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on satire 154 Film, The 334 tragedy 155 , 158–9 , 165–6 Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on clowns, fools and jesters Stage, The 332 bilingual clowns 287 ‘Cambridge Schools Shakespeare’ 327 in comedies 109 , 116 ‘Cambridge Shakespeare’ 68–9 sources 26 , 275 Cambridge University Press 68–9 , 255 , 326 , in tragedies 129 , 131 , 274 , 288 327 , 328 , 332 , 334 coat of arms 5 , 8–9 , 12 Campbell, Lily B.: Shakespeare’s Histories Coke, Sir Edward 227 255–6 , 338 Collier, John Payne 69 Capell, Edward 66 , 69 Collins, Francis 11 Cardenio 11 , 34 colonialism 203 Carlson, Marvin 296–7 comedies 105–18 carnival 275–6 categorization 63 , 105–6 , 122 Carson, Christie: Shakespeare’s Globe: A early comedies 108–12 Theatrical Experiment 332 as idealized society 188 Castiglione, Baldassare: The Book of the plot devices 107 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 114 Courtier 153 problem comedies 116–17 Cat Head Theatre 281 Romantic Comedies 112–16 categorization of Shakespeare’s plays 63 , sources 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 105–6 , 122 , 138–9 , 171–2 117 , 330 Catonis Disticha 19 theory and practice 106–7 Cawdrey, Robert: A Table Alphabetical Comedy of Errors, The xv , 22 , 62 , 105 , 108 , 271 110–11 , 171 Cercignani, Fausto: Shakespeare’s Works and commonplace books 17–18 , 36 , 55 , Elizabethan Pronunciation 336–7 98 , 317 Chambers, E. K. 10 companions to Shakespeare 327–8 The Elizabethan Stage 331 complete works of Shakespeare 325–6 William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and concordances 337 , 341 Problems 328 Condell, Henry 2–3 , 36–7 , 41 , 121 , 138 , characters 171 , 254 , 255 in classical plays 153–4 , 163 Cooper, Tarnya: Searching for Shakespeare names 63–4 339 representation 236–8 , 242 , 296 copyright 67 types 46–7 , 70 , 108 , 191 , 273–4 Coriolanus xvi , 62 , 163 , 164–6 Chaucer, Geoffrey 122 , 126 , 156 categorization 105 The Knight’s Tale 112 , 117 characters 47 Chettle, Henry 7 , 34 globalization 290–1 Children of the Queen’s Revels 172 infl uences on 124 , 125–6 , 132 Chinese theatre 288–9 language 271–2 chronology theatre 51 life of Shakespeare xiii–xiv tragedy 165–6 works xv–xvi , 3 , 137–8 Coryat, Thomas 226 Churchill, John, fi rst Duke of Marlborough court performances 56–7 , 174 , 206 148 courtly entertainments 54 Cicero 20 Cowley, Abraham: The Guardian 55 Cinthio, Giraldi: Gli Hecatommithi 22 Cox, J. D. 331 345 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88632-1 - The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Margreta De Grazia and Stanley Wells Index More information Index Craig, Gordon 242 Dickson, Andrew: The Rough Guide to Crane, Robert 38–9 Shakespeare 328 , 332 , 335 Critical Essays (Garland) 337 Digby Mary Magdalen 181–2 critical responses 253–67 Digges, Leonard 12 , 57 bibliography 337–8 Dobson, Michael context 255–7 The Making of the National Poet early modern responses 1–2 , 6–7 , 253 332 , 338 performance 259–61 The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare plenitude 257–9 327 text 254–5 Donaldson, Peter 306 twenty-fi rst century 261–2 Donne, John 227 cross-dressing 109 , 113 , 115 , 195 , Donohue, Joseph W.: Theatre in the Age of 222–6 Kean 332 Crystal, Ben and David: Shakespeare’s Words Dowden, Edward 69 , 171 336 Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind ‘cues’ 48 and Art 337 Curtain theatre 50 Drakakis, John: Alternative Shakespeares Cymbeline xvi , 62 , 172–3 338 categorization 105–6 , 122 , 171 Drayton, Michael 11 characters 47 Droeshout, Martin 63 gods 173 Drue, Thomas: Duchess of Suffolk 147 infl uences on 140 , 174 , 181 Drury Lane theatre 235 , 237 language 80 , 201 Dryden, John 257 , 262 performance 54 , 176 , 178 Dudley, Sir Robert 222 setting 179–80 Duffi n, Ross W.: Shakespeare’s Songbook sexuality and gender 223 339 Czechoslovakia 244 Duncan-Jones, Katherine: Ungentle Shakespeare 328 Daborne, Robert 37 Dusinberre, Juliet: Shakespeare and the Daniel, David 83 Nature of Women 338 Daniel, Samuel Dutt, Utpal: Jatra Macbeth 290 The Civil Wars 139 Dyce, Alexander 69 Delia 101 Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy 122 Eagleson, Robert D.
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