Shakespearean Continuities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Shakespeare and His Predecessors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Magic and the Recluse in Arden: Shakespeare’s Precursors in the Forest

      • John Frankis

      Pages 3-22

   3. Voices from the Past: A Note on Termagant and Herod

      • Diana Whaley

      Pages 23-39

   4. Classical and Contemporary Sources of the ‘Gloomy Woods’ of Titus Andronicus: Ovid, Seneca, Spenser

      • Michael Pincombe

      Pages 40-55

   5. Shakespeare’s Henry IV and ‘the old song of Percy and Douglas’

      • Claire Lamont

      Pages 56-73

   6. ‘Suppose you see’: The Chorus in Henry V and The Mirror for Magistrates

      • Brian Vickers

      Pages 74-90

3. Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Credulous to False Prints: Shakespeare, Chettle, Harvey, Wolfe

      • John Jowett

      Pages 93-107

   3. The Case for the Earlier Canon

      • Rosalind King

      Pages 108-122

   4. Freud and Shakespeare: Hamlet

      • A. D. Nuttall

      Pages 123-137

   5. Othello, The Infamous Ripley and SHAKSPER

      • Edward Pechter

      Pages 138-149

   6. Timon and Tragedy

      • Laurence Lerner

      Pages 150-160

   7. Shakespeare the Man

      • Park Honan

      Pages 161-174

   8. The Rapture of the Sea

      • Philip Edwards

      Pages 175-189

4. Shakespeare in Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. ‘Comparisons and wounding flouts : Love’s Labours Lost and the Tradition of Personal Satire

      • Tom Cain

      Pages 193-205

   3. The Integration of Violent Action in Titus Andronicus

      • Stanley Wells

      Pages 206-220

   4. Troilus and Cressida as Brechtian Theatre

      • R. S. White

      Pages 221-237

   5. On Finishing a Commentary on King Lear

      • R. A. Foakes

      Pages 238-246

This substantial collection includes contributions from leading international Shakespeare scholars such as Tom Craik, Philip Edwards, IngA-Stina Ewbank, R.A. Foakes, G.K. Hunter, Kenneth Muir, A.D. Nuttall, Brian Vickers and Stanley Wells. The book's twenty five essays range over the whole field of Shakespeare studies and deal especially with Shakespeare and his predecessors, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Shakespeare in performance (including film) and Shakespeare in relation to later literature. Shakespearean Continuities is published in honour of the distinguished Shakespeare scholar E.A.J. Honigmann, FBA, Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature at the University of Newcastle, 1970-1989.

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