"Fanned and Winnowed Opinions"

Shakespearean Essays Presented to Harold Jenkins

John W. Mahon, Thomas A. Pendleton, John W. Mahon, Thomas A. Pendleton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781000350111
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism of Shakespeare
• Index: Literature

Originally published in 1987, " Fanned and Winnowed Opinions " celebrates the scholarship of Professor Harold Jenkins, one of this century's foremost editors and critics of Shakespeare. All of the essays address Shakespearean topics, and many of the sixteen focus on the years between 1595 and 1605, the period on which much of Professor Jenkin's work centers: there are, appropriately, three essays on Hamlet. A variety of critical approaches is represented, including the Freudian and the feminist; some essays focus on one play, while others take a thematic approach. Comedies, histories, and tragedies all come under consideration.

The contributors include many distinguished scholars, some of whom studied under Professor Jenkins or edited volumes of the Arden Shakespeare under his direction. All of the contributions were specifically written for the Festschrift and had not appeared in print before. In addition to the scholarly essays, the volume features an introduction with an appreciative review of Harold Jenkins' career and a complete bibliography of his works.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Troilus and Cressida: its dramatic unity and genre
• 2 Motive and meaning in All’s Well That Ends Well
• 3 Amorous fictions and As You Like It
• 4 Shakespeare’s disguised duke play: Middleton, Marston, and the sources of Measure for Measure
• 5 Shakespeare and history: from antithesis to synthesis
• 6 Sir John Oldcastle: Shakespeare’s martyr
• 7 “It must be your imagination then”: the prologue and the plural text in Henry V and elsewhere
• 8 “With a little shuffling”
• 9 “The play’s the thing”: Hamlet and the conscience of the Queen
• 10 The plays within the play of Hamlet
• 11 Iago’s questionable shapes
• 12 On the copy for Antony and Cleopatra
• 13 A world of figures: enargeiac speech in Shakespeare
• 14 “For now we sit to chat as well as eat”: conviviality and conflict in Shakespeare’s meals
• 15 “Wives may be merry and yet honest too”: women and wit in The Merry Wives of Windsor and some other plays
• 16 Shakespeare and Massinger: Resemblances and Contrasts
• Harold Jenkins: List of Publications
• Notes on Contributors
• Index