Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare: Questions of Evidence (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)

Shakespeare Commentary And Performance Today Present Us With A Multiplicity Of Interpretations Constructed And Reconstructed From Such Diverse Origins That The Underlying Evidence Has Become Hidden By Layers Of Reconceptualized Meanings. What Can Or Should Count As Evidence For The Claims Made By Scholars And Performers, And How Should This Evidence Be Organized? In Textual And Theatrical Shakespeare Ten Essayists Answer These Stimulating Questions By Exploring The Possibilities For And The Constraints Upon Useful Communication Among Critics Who Come To Shakespeare From So Many Different Directions. Bridging The Stage-versus-page Gap Between Actors, Critics, And Scholars, The Contributors In This Carefully Crafted Yet Energizing Book Reflect Upon The Many Kinds Of Evidence Available To Us From Shakespeare's Various Incarnations As Historical Subject And As Our Contemporary As Well As From His Amphibious Occupation Of Both Stage And Study. The Constraints Of Such Differences Become Arbitrary As Each Essayist Clarifies The Sources Of This Evidence; The Seemingly Rigid Boundaries Of Scholarly And Creative Discipline Are Crossed And Redrawn. Textual And Theatrical Shakespeare : Questions Of Evidence / Edward Pechter -- How Good Does Evidence Have To Be? / Michael D. Bristol -- Recovering Elizabethan Staging : A Reconsideration Of The Evidence / Alan C. Dessen -- Performance-game And Representation In Richard Iii / Robert Weimann -- The Shopping Complex : Materiality And The Renaissance Theatre / Kathleen E. Mcluskie -- Coriolanus As Tory Propaganda / John Ripley -- The Rhetoric Of Evidence : The Narration And Display Of Viola And Olivia In The Nineteenth Century / Laurie E. Osborne -- Edwin Booth's Richard Ii And The Divided Nation / Catherine M. Shaw -- Theatre Archives At The Intersection Of Production And Reception : The Example Of Québécois Shakespeare / Leanore Lieblein -- Here Apparent : Photography, History, And Theatrical Unconscious / Barbara Hodgdon -- Iinvisible Bullets, Violet Beards : Reading Actors' Reading / W.b. Worthen Edited By Edward Pechter. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [235]-253) And Index. Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 1 Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare: Questions of Evidence......Page 10 Notes......Page 29 2 How Good Does Evidence Have to Be?......Page 31 Veridical Evidence, Circumstantial Evidence, and Wishful Thinking......Page 32 Evidence and the Social Experience of Research......Page 38 Authorizing Shakespeare......Page 44 3 Recovering Elizabethan Staging: A Reconsideration of the Evidence......Page 53 Notes......Page 73 4 Performance-Game and Representation in Richard III......Page 75 Representation and Playing: Elizabethan Performance Revisited......Page 76 The "Execrable" Play of "Contrariety"......Page 79 Vice of Kings: Betwixt Game and Representation......Page 84 Notes......Page 93 5 The Shopping Complex: Materiality and the Renaissance Theatre......Page 95 Notes......Page 109 6 Coriolanus as Tory Propaganda......Page 111 Notes......Page 131 7 The Rhetoric of Evidence: The Narration and Display of Viola and Olivia in the Nineteenth Century......Page 133 Notes......Page 151 8 Edwin Booth's Richard II and the Divided Nation......Page 153 Notes......Page 171 9 Theatre Archives at the Intersection of Production and Reception: The Example of Québécois Shakesp.........Page 173 Notes......Page 187 10 "Here Apparent": Photography, History, and the Theatrical Unconscious......Page 190 Notes......Page 216 11 Invisible Bullets, Violet Beards: Reading Actors Reading......Page 219 Notes......Page 236 Contributors......Page 239 Works Cited......Page 242 A......Page 261 B......Page 262 D......Page 263 F......Page 264 H......Page 265 K......Page 266 M......Page 267 P......Page 268 R......Page 269 S......Page 270 T......Page 271 Y......Page 272