Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Martha W. Driver is distinguished professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Pace University. Sid Ray is a professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Pace University.

• Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS      FOREWORD: “THE SKELETON IN THE MIRROR”Michael Almereyda and Dakin Matthews      GENERAL INTRODUCTIONMartha W. Driver and Sid Ray      Part I. “Abstract and Brief Chronicles of Time”: The HistoriesINTRODUCTION TO PARTMartha W. Driver      “Richard’s Himself Again”: The Body of Richard III on Stage and ScreenJim Casey      Falstaff in AmericaCatherine Loomis      Scoring the Fields of the Dead: Musical Styles and Approaches to Postbattle Scenes from Henry V (1944, 1989)Linda K. Schubert      Part II. “Carnal, Bloody, and Unnatural Acts”: The TragediesINTRODUCTION TO PARTMartha W. Driver      “We’re Everyone You Depend On”: Filming Shakespeare’s PeasantsCarl James Grindley      Medieval Hamlet in PerformancePatrick J. Cook      Finding Gruoch: The Hidden Genealogy of Lady Macbeth in Text and Cinematic PerformanceSid Ray      Part III. “Many Merry Men”: The ComediesINTRODUCTION TO PARTSid Ray      Reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream through Middle English RomanceMartha W. Driver      “Chaucer ... the Story Gives”: Troilus and Cressida and The Two Noble KinsmenJulia Ruth Briggs      Shakespeare’s Virgin Mother on the Modern Stage: All’s Well, That Ends Well and the Madonna del Parto TraditionGary Waller      Part IV. “Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral”: The RomancesINTRODUCTION TO PARTSid Ray      “The Quick and the Dead”: Performing the Poet Gower in PericlesKelly Jones      Shakespeare as Medievalist: What It Means for Performing PericlesR. F. Yeager      A Touch of Chaucer in The Winter’s TaleLouise M. Bishop      Caliban’s God: The Medieval and Renaissance Man in the MoonKim Zarins      ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS      INDEX

“fascinating...compelling”—Arthuriana; “the anthology is certainly one that scholars interested in Shakespeare on film will wish to consult”—Studies in Medieval & Renaissance Teaching.