Early Modern Drama in Performance : Essays in Honor of Lois Potter

Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This collection’s emphasis on Shakespearean and early modern drama reflects the area for which Potter is most widely known, as a performance critic, editor, and literary scholar. The essays by a diverse group of scholars who have been influenced by Potter address recurring themes in her work: Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean early modern drama, performance history and theatre practice, theatrical performance across cultures, play reviewing, and playreading. What unifies them most, though, is that they carry on the spirit of Potter’s work: her ability to meet a text, a performance, or a historical period on its own terms, to give scrupulous attention to specific details and elegantly show how these details generate larger meaning, and to recover and preserve the fleeting and the ephemeral. Dramatic Verse And Early Modern Playgoers In Marlowe's Time / Roslyn L. Knutson -- The Usurer's Theatrical Body: Refiguring Profit In The Jew Of Malta And The Blind Beggar Of Alexandria / Bradley D. Ryner -- Theater Of Anatomy: The Tragedy Of Hoffman / Peter Hyland -- Know You This Ring?: Metonymic Functions Of A Prop / Ann Thompson And John O. Thompson -- Editing And Staging The Revenger's Tragedy: Three Problems / Alan C. Dessen -- The Most Unsavoury Similes And Henry Iv, Part One / Darlene Farabee -- Shakespeare And Cognitive Vision / Arthur F. Kinney -- Shakespeare's Conception Of Tragedy: The Middle Tragedies / Jay L. Halio -- Shakespeare Or Not Shakespeare?: The Propagation Of The Plays In Europe Through J.f. Ducis's Imitations / Michèle Willems -- Un/natural Perspectives: Viola On The Late Nineteenth-century Stage / Virginia Mason Vaughan -- Reading, Recitation, And Entertainments: The Dunedin Shakespeare Club, 1877-1956 / Evelyn Tribble -- The Power Of Shakespeare's Word In Twentieth-century Prague / Zdeněk Stříbrný -- Showtime: Temporality And The Video Archive Of Julius Caesar At The Rsc / Andrew James Hartley. Edited By Darlene Farabee, Mark Netzloff, And Bradley D. Ryner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This book is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This collection's emphasis on Shakespearean and early modern drama reflects the area for which Potter is most widely known, as a performance critic, editor, and literary scholar.--Publisher's description This collection brings together essays on the topics of Shakespeare, theater history, and early English drama in performance by scholars influenced by the pioneering work of Lois Potter.