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Tables of Contents for The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
To the Reader
xiii
Introduction
1
1
Shakespeare in Our Time
1
2
The Uses of a Companion
3
1
The Illustrations and Documents
4
3
Three Troublesome Topics: Terminology, Modernization, and Money
7
1
A Final Word
8
3
Shakespeare, ``Shakespeare,'' and the Problem of Authorship
11
25
Early Life
12
3
London: The First Decade
15
4
London: Maturity
19
3
Retirement
22
2
The Anti-Stratfordians
24
2
What Is an Author?
26
3
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
The House Known as Shakespeare's Birthplace
29
1
Record of Shakespeare's Baptism
29
2
Map of Stratford-upon-Avon
31
1
From Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury
32
1
Francis Meres
The Royal License for Shakespeare's Company
33
1
A Plague Bill
33
1
Vicar of Stratford, From His Diary
34
1
John Ward
Detail from the ``Agas'' Map of London (With Shakespeare's Lodging Indicated)
34
2
``To What End Are All These Words?'': Shakespeare's Dramatic Language
36
43
Early Modern English
38
4
Rhetoric
42
2
Wordplay
44
3
The Forms of Dramatic Language
47
8
Language as Theme
55
4
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
From the Foreword to the Third Edition of the Latin New Testament
59
1
Desiderius Erasmus
From The Art of Rhetoric (Of Composition)
60
2
Thomas Wilson
From Musophilus
62
1
Samuel Daniel
From ``Of the Vanity of Words''
63
1
Michel de Montaigne
From The Schoolmaster
64
2
Roger Ascham
From The Art of Reason, Rightly Termed Witcraft
66
2
Ralph Lever
From The Art of English Poesy
68
5
George Puttenham
From The Book of the Courtier
73
4
Baldassare Castiglione
Chart of the Relative Proportions of Poetry and Prose in Shakespeare's Plays
77
2
Theater a la Mode: Shakespeare and the Kinds of Drama
79
30
Comedy
81
4
Tragedy
85
5
History
90
4
Romance
94
3
Mixed Modes
97
2
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
From The Defense of Poesy
99
1
Sir Philip Sidney
From The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry
100
1
Elizabeth Cary
From Poetics
101
4
Aristotle
Title Page of Richard III (First Quarto)
105
2
From His Notes of a Conversation with Queen Elizabeth I about Richard II
107
1
William Lambarde
From His Preface to The Faithful Shepherdess
107
1
John Fletcher
From A Short View of Tragedy
108
1
Thomas Rymer
Performances, Playhouses, and Players
109
36
Going to a Play, Circa 1595
109
5
The Playhouses
114
6
The Companies
120
3
The Theater and the Authorities
123
5
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
Map Showing the Playhouses in Shakespeare's Time
128
1
Sketch Accompanying Lines from Titus Andronicus
128
1
Henry Peacham
Inventory of Theatrical Costumes (From Henslowe's Papers)
129
3
Remains of the Rose Playhouse
132
1
Two Plans of the Rose Playhouse
133
1
Illustration of the Second Globe
134
1
C. Walter Hodges
Copy of De Witt's Sketch of the Swan Playhouse
135
2
Detail from Long View of London
137
1
Wenceslas Hollar
Log of Plays from His Diary
137
3
Philip Henslowe
Testimony about a Performance of Richard II
140
1
Record of King James's Payment to the King's Men
140
1
From An Apology for Actors
141
2
Thomas Heywood
Letter to His Wife
143
2
Edward Alleyn
``I Loved My Books'': Shakespeare's Reading
145
49
Shakespeare and the Classics
147
2
Major Influences
149
5
Indirect Sources
154
4
Shakespeare's Favorites
158
5
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
From The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York
163
1
Edward Hall
From the Geneva Bible
164
5
From Gli Hecatommithi (The Principal Source for Othello)
169
2
Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio
From The Book of Common Prayer (The Order for the Burial of the Dead)
171
3
From Acts and Monuments
174
4
John Foxe
A Moralized Ballad
178
2
From A True Reportory of the Wreck and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates (A Source for The Tempest)
180
2
Sir William Strachey
From Tamburlaine the Great
182
1
Christopher Marlowe
Two Sonnets from Astrophil and Stella
183
1
Sir Philip Sidney
Two Sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
184
1
Lady Mary Wroth
From The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Second Edition)
185
1
Raphael Holinshed
From Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Translated by Sir Thomas North)
186
1
Plutarch
Countess of Pembroke, From Her Translation of The Tragedy of Antonie by Robert Garnier
187
3
Mary Sidney Herbert
Ovid, From Metamorphoses (Translated by Arthur Golding)
190
4
``What Is Your Text?''
194
25
What Is a Shakespearean Text?
195
3
From Pen to Press: The Printing of Renaissance Plays
198
3
Illustration of the Folding and Printing Process
200
1
Shakespeare's Plays in Print
201
5
Some Examples of Textual Instability
206
4
Shakespeare's Texts and the General Reader
210
1
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
Title Page of Titus Andronicus (First Quarto)
211
1
Title Page and Catalogue of the First Folio
212
2
Illustration of a Seventeenth-Century Print Shop (Frontispiece to Edmund Rive's Twelve Rules Introducing to the Art of Latin)
214
1
Facsimile of the Last Page of King Lear (First Quarto)
215
1
Facsimile of ``To be or not to be'' from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (First Quarto)
216
1
Facsimile of ``To be or not to be'' from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1623 Folio)
217
1
A Comparison of the Work of Compositors A and B on the 1623 Folio
218
1
Town and Country: Life in Shakespeare's England
219
34
London
221
3
The Suburbs
224
1
The Countryside
225
3
Rural Life
228
3
The Daily Routine
231
1
Clothing
231
2
Getting and Spending
233
4
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
From The Description of England (The Conditions of English Inns and Overnight Travel)
237
1
William Harrison
From Survey of London (The Location of Tradesmen in London)
238
1
John Stow
From ``The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London''
239
2
Isabella Whitney
From Travels in England (The Thames River)
241
1
Thomas Platter
From Journey through England and Scotland (A Visit to the Bearbaiting Arena)
241
1
Lupold von Wedel
From Christ's Tears over Jerusalem (The Brothels of Suburban London)
242
1
Thomas Nashe
From The English Husbandman (Rural Domestic Architecture and Interior Design)
243
2
Gervase Markham
From A Target for Tillage
245
1
John Moore
From The Book of Husbandry (What Works a Wife Should Do)
246
2
Sir Anthony Fitzherbert
From The Description of England (Dining Customs)
248
1
William Harrison
From Positions . . . for the Training Up of Children (Chapter 27, ``Of the Ball'')
248
2
Richard Mulcaster
From The Description of England (Fashion)
250
2
William Harrison
From A Delightful Daily Exercise for Ladies and Gentlewomen
252
1
John Murrell
Men and Women: Gender, Family, Society
253
50
The Situation of Women
253
6
Patriarchy
259
4
Primogeniture
263
2
Marriage and Money
265
4
Family Life
269
4
The Social Structure
273
4
Conclusion: The Body Politic
277
1
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
From Historia Animalium
278
1
Aristotle
From Natural and Artificial Directions for Health
279
1
William Vaughan
Letter on Poetry
279
2
Lady Anne Southwell
From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
281
2
Aemilia Lanyer
From Patriarcha, or The Natural Power of Kings
283
2
Sir Robert Filmer
From An Homily of the State of Matrimony
285
5
From Of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises
290
2
William Gouge
From De Republica Anglorum: The Manner of Government or Policy of the Realm of England (Of Children)
292
1
Sir Thomas Smith
From An Heptameron of Civil Discourses (Household Laws to Keep the Married in Love, Peace, and Amity)
292
1
George Whetstone
From The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery
293
2
Elizabeth Clinton
On My First Son
295
1
Ben Jonson
Excerpts from Conduct Books
295
1
From The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (Of Buggery or Sodomy)
296
2
Sir Edward Coke
From The Tears of an Affectionate Shepherd Sick for Love, or The Complaint of Daphnis for the Love of Ganymede
298
1
Richard Barnfield
List of Royal Proclamations
299
2
Queen Elizabeth I
Royal Proclamation against Vagabonds and Unlawful Assemblies
301
1
Queen Elizabeth I
Edict Arranging for the Expulsion from England of Negroes and Blackamoors
302
1
Queen Elizabeth I
Politics and Religion: Early Modern Ideologies
303
50
An Absolute Monarchy?
304
2
Councillors
306
2
The Monarchs
308
7
The ``Ermine Portrait'' of Elizabeth I
309
1
Portrait of James I
310
5
Paul van Somer
The Church
315
3
The Ideology of Order
318
4
Shakespeare's Theater and the Problem of Authority
322
2
The Stage and Its Opponents
324
2
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
From De Republica Anglorum: The Manner of Government or Policy of the Realm of England (Of Parliament and the Monarchy)
326
2
Sir Thomas Smith
The Tilbury Speech
328
1
Queen Elizabeth I
From A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at Whitehall
328
3
King James I
Secret Letter to Sir Robert Cecil
331
1
King James I
Letter to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
332
1
King James I
Letter Describing the Revels at King James's Court
333
1
Sir John Harington
From The Prince
334
2
Niccolo Machiavelli
From Basilikon Doron
336
3
King James I
From His Diary (On a Dream about an Encounter with Queen Elizabeth)
339
1
Simon Forman
From An Admonition to the Parliament
340
3
John Field
Thomas Wilcox
From The Catholics' Supplication and An Answer to the Catholics' Supplication
343
2
From An Homily against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion
345
4
From Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
349
2
Richard Hooker
From The Anatomy of Abuses
351
2
Philip Stubbes
From Bracegirdle to Branagh: Shakespeare in Performance from 1660 to the Present
353
53
Innovations, Technical and Theatrical
354
3
Actors and Their Roles
357
6
American Shakespeare
363
3
Twentieth-Century Stages, Modern and Postmodern
366
10
Shakespeare Screened
376
7
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
After a Painting
383
1
David Garrick
King Lear
Benjamin Wilson)
From The History of King Lear
383
3
Nahum Tate
Three Lady Macbeths
386
2
Sarah Siddons
Ellen Terry
Judi Dench
Ira Aldridge as Othello
388
1
Playbill Advertising a Gala Performance of Julius Caesar (Featuring the Three Booth Brothers)
389
1
Norman Wilkinson's Set Design for Twelfth Night
390
1
Robert Edmond Jones's Set Design for John Barrymore's Hamlet (New York and London)
391
1
John Barrymore's Script for Hamlet (Directed by Arthur Hopkins)
392
1
Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream (From The Examiner, January 21, 1816)
393
2
William Hazlitt
Two Productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Charles Kean, London; Peter Brook, Stratford-upon-Avon)
395
3
Review of Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream (From Shakespeare Quarterly)
398
2
Robert Speaight
Laurence Olivier as Henry V
400
1
From He That Plays the King
401
4
Kenneth Tynan
Titus
405
1
Julie Taymor
Bibliography
406
16
Appendix: Shakespeare Resources on the Web
422
8
Index
430