The Text, the Play, and the Globe: Essays on Literary Influence in Shakespeare's World and His Work in Honor of Charles R. Forker (The Fairleigh . Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage)

ISBN 10: 1611478219 / ISBN 13: 9781611478211

Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016

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• Title: The Text, the Play, and the Globe: Essays on Literary Influence in Shakespeare's World and His Work in Honor of Charles R. Forker (The Fairleigh . Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage)
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611478219
• ISBN 13: 9781611478211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to honor the scholarly legacy of Charles R. Forker with a series of essays that address the problem of literary influence in original ways and from a variety of perspectives. The emphasis throughout is on the sort of careful, exhaustive, evidence-based scholarship to which Forker dedicated his entire professional life. Although wide-ranging and various by design, the essays in this book never lose sight of three discrete yet overlapping areas of literary inquiry that create a unity of perspective amid the diversity of approaches: 1) the formation of play texts, textual analysis, and editorial practice; 2) performance history and the material playing conditions from Shakespeare’s time to the present, including film as well as stage representations; and 3) the world, both cultural and literary, in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked and to which they bequeathed an artistic legacy that continues to be re-interpreted and re-defined by a whole new set of cultural and literary pressures. Eschewing any single, predetermined ideological perspective, the essays in this book call our attention to how the simplest questions or observations can open up provocative and unexpected scholarly vistas. In so doing, they invite us into a subtly re-configured world of literary influence that draws us into new, often unexpected, ways of seeing and understanding the familiar.

About the Authors

David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago.

James C. Bulman is Henry B. and Patricia Bush Tippie Professor of English at Allegheny College, USA.

Rebecca Bushnell is School of Arts and Sciences Board of Advisors Emerita Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her books include Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays (1988); Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance (1990); A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice (1996); Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens (2003); A Companion to Tragedy ( 2005); and Tragedy: A Short Introduction (2007). She is Immediate Past President of the Shakespeare Association of America,

S. P. Cerasano is the Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.

Michael Dobson is an award-winning game designer and co-author of Fox on the Rhine and Fox at the Front. He served as a member of the team that built the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.