Early Modern Drama in Performance Essays in Honor of Lois Potter [Hardcover]

This collection brings together essays on the topics of Shakespeare, theater history, and early English drama in performance by scholars influenced by the pioneering work of Lois Potter.Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This collections emphasis on Shakespearean and early modern drama reflects the area for which Potter is most widely known, as a performance critic, editor, and literary scholar. The essays by a diverse group of scholars who have been influenced by Potter address recurring themes in her work: Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean early modern drama, performance history and theatre practice, theatrical performance across cultures, play reviewing, and playreading. What unifies them most, though, is that they carry on the spirit of Potters work: her ability to meet a text, a performance, or a historical period on its own terms, to give scrupulous attention to specific details and elegantly show how these details generate larger meaning, and to recover and preserve the fleeting and the ephemeral.Introduction by Darlene Farabee, Mark Netzloff, and Bradley D. RynerChapter 1: Dramatic Verse and Early Modern Playgoers in Marlowes Time by Roslyn L. KnutsonChapter 2: The Usurers Theatrical Body: Refiguring Profit in The Jew of Malta and The Blind Beggar of Alexandria by Bradley D. RynerChapter 3: Theater of Anatomy: The Tragedy of Hoffman by Peter HylandChapter 4: 'Know you this ring?': Metonymic Functions of a Prop by Ann Thompson and John O. ThompsonChapter 5: Editing and Staging The Revenger's Tragedy: Three Problems by Alan C. DessenChapter 6: The most unsavoury similes and Henry IV, Part One by Darlene FarabeeChapter 7: Shakespeares Cognitive Vision by Arthur KinneyChapter 8: Shakespeare's Conception of Tragedy: The Middle Tragedies by Jay lc&