THE CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY
VOLUME I: SHAKESPEARE'S TIMES, TEXTS, AND STAGES
EDITED BY CATHERINE M. S. ALEXANDER
INTRODUCTION BY STANLEY WELLS
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS
Volume I: Shakespeare's Times, Texts, and Stages
Editor's Note page v
STANLEY WELLS Introduction
SHAKESPEARE'S LANGUAGE D. S. BLAND Shakespeare and the'ordinary'word (195I) BRIDGET CUSACK Shakespeare and the tune of the time (1970) H TERENCE HAWKES Shakespeare's talking animals (1971) 26 STEPHEN BOOTH Shakespeare's language and the language of Shakespeare's time (1997) 33
SHAKESPEARE'S READING/KNOWLEDGE F. P. WILSON Shakespeare's reading (1950) 49 J. W. LEVER Shakespeare's French fruits (1953) 56 NASEEB SHAHEEN Shakespeare's knowledge of Italian (1994) 65 J. W. BlNNS Shakespeare's Latin citations: the editorial problem (1982) 74 T. J. B. SPENCER Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Romans (1957) 83 JOHN W. VELZ The ancient world in Shakespeare: authenticity or anachronism? A retrospect (1978) 93
TEXT ARTHUR BROWN The printing of books (1964) 104 CHARLTON HINMAN Shakespeare's text - then, now, and tomorrow (1965) 113 FREDSON BOWERS Hamlet's 'sullied' or 'solid' flesh: a bibliographical case-history (1956) 123 A. C. PARTRIDGE Shakespeare's orthography in Venus and Adonis and some early quartos (1954) 128 KENNETH MUIR Shakespeare's hand in The Two Noble Kinsmen (1958) 139 ANDREW GURR Maximal and minimal texts: Shakespeare v. the Globe (1999) 147
TIMES W. G. HOSKINS Provincial life (1964) 166 F. L. POYNTER Medicine and public health (1964) 174 M. H. CURTIS Education and apprenticeship (1964) 188
Vll LIST OF CONTENTS
T. F. REDDAWAY London and the court (1964) 207 E. W. IVES Shakespeare and history: divergencies and agreements (1985) 217 WILLIAM C. CARROLL Language, politics, and poverty in Shakespearian drama (1992) 234 BLAIR WORDEN Shakespeare and politics (1992) 242
CONTEXT OF SPECIFIC WORKS ELIZABETH MARIE POPE The Renaissance background of Measure for Measure (1949) 256 SUBHA MUKHERJI 'Lawful deed': consummation, custom, and law in All's Well That Ends Well (1996) 270 HAROLD FISCH Shakespeare and the Puritan dynamic (1974) 288 G. M. PINCISS The old honor and the new courtesy: 1 Henry IV (1978) 299 GARY TAYLOR The fortunes of Oldcastle (1985) 306 E. C. PETTET Coriolanus and the Midlands Insurrection of 1607 (1950) 322 LEAH SCRAGG Macbeth on horseback (1973) 329 EMRYS JONES Othello, Lepanto, and the Cyprus wars (1968) 336 MARK MATHESON Venetian culture and the politics of Othello (1995) ' 341 JOAN GRUNDY Shakespeare's sonnets and the Elizabethan sonneteers (1962) 351 I. A. SHAPIRO Shakespeare and Mundy (1961) 358
STAGING C. WALTER HODGES The lantern of taste (1959) 366 ALLARDYCE NICOLL 'Passing over the stage' (1959) 372 ANDREW GURR The bare island (1994) 380 J. L. STYAN The actor at the foot of Shakespeare's platform (1959) 394 GERALD EADES BENTLEY Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre (1948) 401 ARTHUR COLBY SPRAGUE Shakespeare's unnecessary characters (1967) 412 ANDREW GURR Who strutted and bellowed? (1963) 419 P. H. PARRY The boyhood of Shakespeare's heroines (1990) 425 CHARLES EDELMAN Shakespeare's 'brawl ridiculous' (1990) 436 CHARLES EDELMAN Which is the Jew that Shakespeare knew? Shylock on the Elizabethan stage (1999) 444 JOHN SHAW The staging of parody and parallels in 1 Henry IV (1967) 452 WILLIAM MONTGOMERY The original staging of The First Part of the Contention (1594) (1989) 463