New Essays on History and Form in Early Modern English Literature

Gail Kern Paster is Director Emerita of the Folger Shakespeare Library and Editor Emerita of Shakespeare Quarterly. Her publications include The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England (1993) and Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage (2004). She was named to the Queen’s Honours List in 2011.Nick Moschovakis has published on early modern English literaure in scholarly journals and in edited collections—including Shakespeare and Historical Formalism, ed. Stephen Cohen (2007)—and is an editor of two prior volumes of Shakespearean criticism. Employed mainly as a writing instructor and consultant to international organizations, he has also taught literature and academic writing at several colleges and universities, including most recently the American University of Paris. From 2015–2019 he served on Shakespeare Quarterly’s Editorial Board.

• List of contributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Form, History, and ValueNick Moschovakis and Gail Kern Paster1. FormlessDouglas Bruster 2. Fictionalizing Place on the Shakespearean StageBenedict S. Robinson3. Genre as Sign in John Milton’s Samson AgonistesDaniel Allen Shore4. Logical Form and the History of Divorce: Adriana’s Speech on Marriage in The Comedy of ErrorsNick Moschovakis5. Conforming to Authority: The Summe and Substance and Satiric Expression in the Early Stuart EraJoseph Navitsky6. “Stand Still, You Ever-Moving Spheres of Heaven”: Form and Feeling in Dramatic ApostropheGail Kern Paster7. “A Madrigal of Procreation”: Intermedial Balletts and the Renaissance English TheaterJennifer Linhart Wood8. Form and Knowledge in "Love"Richard StrierAfterwordCaroline LevineIndex