Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama

In Honour of Hardin Craig

Richard Hosley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351775052
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Theatre

The twenty-eight essays of this collection, first published in 1962, are the work of distinguished British, Canadian, and American scholars. The essays range widely over the field of Elizabethan drama, concentrating attention on Shakespeare and Marlowe but not neglecting earlier dramatists such as Kyd and Greene or later ones such as Heywood and Massinger. Among the general topics treated are the staging of the interludes, intrigue in Elizabethan tragedy, and Jacobean stage pastoralism. This title will be of interest to students of English literature.

Index

Adams, H. H., 314

Adams, John Cranford, 362-3, 364, 365-6

Admiral's Men, 203, 351

Aelian, Varia historia, 205

Aeneas, See Dido

Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 38; Eumenides, 276

Alexander, Peter, 143

Alexander of Pherae, 205, 210

Alexander the Great, 168

Alleyn, William, 90; manuscript part in Orlando Furioso, 47

Allot, Robert, 45n

'Alternation' theory, 362, 364

Anguillara, Giovanni Andrea deil', Metamorfosi, 155-9

Anthology, Greek, 56

Apius and Virginia (by R. B.), 11

Archer, William, 310, 311

Archer play list of 1656, 311

Aristotle, 15-22 passim, 302n; theory of tragedy, 17; deiinition of poetry, 17, 22; ἁμάρτημα (mistranslated peccatum), 20-21; on the ridiculous, 20-21; mimesis, 21.—Works: Ethics, 20; Poetics, 15-21 passim; Rhetoric, 18

Armin, Robert, 288

Amain de Mareuil, "Tan m'abellis," 153

Arnold, Matthew, 223-4

Ascensius, Jodocus Badius, 59, 204

Atkins, Robert, 364

Aunters of Arthur, 86

Ausonius, 55-6

B., R., Apius and Virginia, 11

B., W., verses for Massinger's Bondman, 342

Babel (Babylon), Tower of, 24-7, 28-9, 32-4

Bacon, Francis, 297-307 passim; semidramatic devices, 297-9; on comedies, 300; on history, 301, 303-4, 303n; on philosophy, 301, 303-4, 306n; on poetry, 301-7 passim; and Renaissance criticism, 302 and n; on imagination, 303n, 305-6, 306n; on natural science, 304-5, 305n, 306 and n; on rhetoric, 306 and n.— Works; Advancement of Learning, 301-6 passim; Aphorisms, 304, 306n; Charge Against Oliver St. John, 300; Charge Against the Countess of Somerset, 301; De augmentis scientiarum, 300-306 passim; Description of the Intellectual Globe, 303; Essays, 299 (37), 300 (10 and 18), 306n (17); History...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Original Copyright
• Contents
• Hardin Craig
• The Contribution of the Interludes to Elizabethan Staging
• Trissino's Art of Poetry
• The Spanish Tragedy, or Babylon Revisited
• Intrigue in Elizabethan Tragedy
• Robert Greene as Dramatist
• Marlowe's Dido and the Tradition
• Marlowe's Humor
• Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and the Eldritch Tradition
• Marlowe's 'Tragicke Glasse'
• More Shakespeare Sonnet Groups
• Three Homilies in The Comedy of Errors
• Pyramus and Thisbe Once More
• Henry V as Heroic Comedy
• Tudor Intelligence Tests: Malvolio and Real Life
• Hamlet's Defense of the Players
• Hamlet's Fifth Soliloquy, 3.2.406-17
• 'Greeks' and 'Merrygreeks': A Background to Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida
• Recognition in The Winter's Tale
• Repeated Situations in Shakespeare's Plays
• Stage Imagery in Shakespeare's Plays
• Engagement and Detachment in Shakespeare's Plays
• Francis Bacon on the Drama
• The Revenger's Tragedy and the Virtue of Anonymity
• Italian Favole boscarecce and Jacobean Stage Pastoralism
• Thomas Heywood's Dramatic Art
• Massinger the Censor
• Lenten Performances in the Jacobean and Caroline Theaters
• The Return of the Open Stage
• A Bibliography of the Writings of Hardin Craig from 1940 to 1961
• Index