SHAKESPEAREAN CONTINUITIES with son Paul with granddaughter Perdita From their twenties to their sixties ELSIE AND ERNST HONIGMANN Shakespearean Continuities Essays in Honour of E. A. J. Honigmann Edited by John Batchelor, Tom Cain and Claire Lamont palgrave macmillan First published in Great Britain 1997 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-349-26005-8 ISBN 978-1-349-26003-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-26003-4 First published in the United States of America 1997 by ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue. New York. N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-17504-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shakespearean continuities: essays in honor of E. A. J. Honigmann / edited by John Batchelor. Tom Cain, and Claire Lamont. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-17504-7 (cloth) 1. Shakespeare. William, 1564-1616-Criticism and interpretation. I. Honigrnann, E. A. 1. II. Batchelor, John. 1942- III. Cain, T. G. S. (Thomas Grant Steven) IV. Lamont, Claire. PR2976.S3389 1997 822.3'3-dc21 97-5892 CIP Selection and editorial matter © John Batchelor. Tom Cain and Claire Lamont 1997 © the several contributors in their various essays 1997 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1997 All rights reserved. No reproduction. copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road. London WI P 9HE. 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Logging. pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 Contents Notes on the Contributors viii Preface and Acknowledgements xii I Shakespeare and His Predecessors 1 Magic and the Recluse in Arden: Shakespeare's Precursors in the Forest 3 John Frankis 2 Voices from the Past: A Note on Termagant and Herod 23 Diana Whaley 3 Classical and Contemporary Sources of the 'Gloomy Woods' of Titus Andronicus: Ovid, Seneca, Spenser 40 Michael Pincombe 4 Shakespeare's Henry IV and 'the old song of Percy and Douglas' 56 Claire Lamont 5 'Suppose you see': The Chorus in Henry V and The Mirror for Magistrates 74 Brian Vickers II Shakespeare and His Contemporaries 6 Credulous to False Prints: Shakespeare, Chettle, Harvey, Wolfe 93 John Jowett 7 The Case for the Earlier Canon 108 Rosalind King 8 Freud and Shakespeare: Hamlet 123 A.D. Nuttall v vi Contents 9 Othello, The Infamous Ripley and SHAKSPER 138 Edward Pechter 10 Timon and Tragedy 150 Laurence Lerner 11 Shakespeare the Man 161 Park Honan 12 The Rapture of the Sea 175 Philip Edwards III Shakespeare in Performance 13 'Comparisons and wounding flouts': Love's Labours Lost and the Tradition of Personal Satire 193 Tom Cain 14 The Integration of Violent Action in Titus Andronicus 206 Stanley Wells 15 Troilus and Cressida as Brechtian Theatre 221 RS. White 16 On Finishing a Commentary on King Lear 238 RA. Foakes 17 The Making of a Popular Repertory: Hollywood and the Elizabethans 247 G.K. Hunter 18 Shakespeare Meets the Warner Brothers: Reinhardt and Dieterle's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) 259 Bruce Babington IV Shakespeare and Later Writers 19 Nicholas Rowe and the Glossing of Shakespeare 277 N.E. Osselton 20 Shakespearean Sensibilities: Women Writers Reading Shakespeare, 1753-1808 290 Judith Hawley Contents vii 21 Shakespeare in The Cenci: Tragedy and 'familiar imagery' 305 Michael Rossington 22 Ruskin and Shakespeare 319 John Batchelor 23 Shakespeare and Strindberg: Influence as Insemination 335 Inga-Stina Ewbank 24 The Further Fortunes of Falstaff 348 T.W. Craik 25 'Brush Up Your Shakespeare', or Learning to Dance with the Bard: Angela Carter's Wise Children 361 Linda Anderson 26 Base Uses 372 Kenneth Muir * * * 'After Shakespeare: The West End, Newcastle upon Tyne': A Set of Poems 378 Desmond Graham 'A Book-Binder's Grumble' 382 E.A.J. Honigmann * * * E.A.J. Honigmann: Publications, 1954-97 384 Index 388 Notes on the Contributors Linda Anderson is Reader in Modern English Literature and Women's Studies and Director of the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Newcastle. She has recently published Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century and Alice James: Her Life in Letters. Bruce Babington is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Newcastle. He is the co-author (with Peter Evans) of three books on the Hollywood cinema, the latest of which is Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in The Hollywood Cinema. He has also published numerous articles on American, British and European cinema. John Batchelor is Joseph Cowen Professor of English at the University of Newcastle, formerly Fellow and Senior Tutor of New College, Oxford. He is general editor of the World's Classics edition of Conrad, and his books include (most recently) The Life of Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography. He is now writing an intellectual biography of John Ruskin. Tom Cain is Head of the Department of English at the University of Newcastle. He has published a study of Tolstoy, but his main research interests are in the drama, poetry and the wider culture and politics of early modern England, especially Donne and Jonson. Recent publications include an edition of Jonson's Poetaster. T.W. Craik is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Durham. He is the author of The Tudor Interlude and The Comic Tales of Chaucer, and the editor of many Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, most recently The Maid's Tragedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and King Henry V. Philip Edwards has been Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin, the University of Essex and the University of Liverpool. He has published widely in the field of Shakespeare and the literature of his time, and in recent years has written extensively on the narratives of English voyages. His most recent book is The Metaphorical Voyage: Spenser to Milton. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Inga-Stina Ewbank is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds. Born and educated in Sweden, she combines interests in viii Notes on the Contributors ix English and Scandinavian literature and has written on Shakespeare and his contemporaries as well as on Ibsen and Strindberg, some of whose plays she has translated for the English stage. R.A. Foakes, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of critic~l works on Shakespeare and the theatre of his age, and also on Romantic literature, especially Coleridge. His latest publications are Hamlet versus Lear and the new Arden edition of King Lear. John Frankis took his BA, MA and B. Litt at Oxford and taught at Tiibingen and Helsinki before being appointed to the Department of English at the University of Newcastle, where he served from 1964 to his retirement in 1991. He has published various studies of Old English and Middle English language and literature, and is currently working on vernacular writing in post-Conquest England. Desmond Graham is Reader in Modem English Poetry at the University of Newcastle. He has published two collections of poems, anq is the biographer and editor of Keith Douglas. He has recently published Poetry of the Second World War: An International Anthology. Judith Hawley is a Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published essays on Sterne and Charlotte Smith and has recently edited Jane Collier's The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, and Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Shamela. She is currently working on encyclopedism and on late-eighteenth-century women writers. Park Honan is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Leeds. He is co-author of a life of Browning and author of Matthew Arnold: A Life and of Jane Austen: Her Life. His 'Shakespeare's Life' appears in his collected essays, Authors' Lives. He is now working on a full new biography of Shakespeare. G.K. Hunter was educated at Glasgow and subsequently at Oxford (D. Phil., 1950). He is Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus at Yale and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has recently published a volume in the Oxford History of English Literature, The Age of Shakespeare. John Jowett took his BA and MA in English at the University of Newcastle. He is an editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works, Associate Editor of the forthcoming Oxford edition of Thomas Middle­ ton's Collected Works and a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute. x Notes on the Contributors Rosalind King lectures in English and Drama at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Trained initially as a musician, she freelances as a dramaturge and is on the board of the English Shakespeare Company. She is completing a book on the textuality of performance in Shakespeare. Claire Lamont is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Newcastle.