Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries

Lars Engle chairs the English Department at The University of Tulsa, USA, where he has won college and university teaching awards. Educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and Yale, he is the author of Shakespearean Pragmatism (1993) and numerous articles on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. He was one of the editors of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology (2002), and a former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.Eric Rasmussen is Chair and Professor of English at the University of Nevada. He is co-editor of a variety of publications, including the English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology (2002), the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works of William Shakespeare (2008), and The Shakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue (2011).He is also the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project.

• Acknowledgments ixPreface: How to use this book xiPart One: Inwardness 11.1 The Inward Self 21.2 The Inward Self in Soliloquy: The Jew of Malta 41.3 The Inward Self in Aside: The Changeling 161.4 A Digression: The Inner Life of Modernized Texts 251.5 The Christian/Stoic Soul Under Duress: The Duchess of Malfi 361.6 How to Behave When You Have a Soul Always Already Damned: Doctor Faustus 421.7 Obsession and Delusion: Comic Inwardness in Every Man in His Humor 531.8 Epicene 631.9 Tamburlaine the Great 1 and 2: Interior Strength, External Weakness 681.10 Disguise and Honor in The Malcontent 781.11 Conclusion: A Drama of Interiority? 80Part Two: Intimacy, Rivalry, Family 832.1 Rivalry and Intimacy in A Trick to Catch the Old One 852.2 The Tragedy of Mariam: Intimacy, Tyranny, and Ambivalence 902.3 Domestic Tragedy and Moral Commentary: Arden of Faversham 962.4 The Battle of the Sexes: The Woman’s Prize 992.5 Intimacy, Rivalry, Family: Women Beware Women 1032.6 Familiar and Familial: Incest in ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 113Part Three: Society, Politics, the City, and the State 1233.1 Dreaming Up the Free City: The Roaring Girl 1243.2 The Shoemaker’s Holiday 1383.3 A New Way to Pay Old Debts 1443.4 The Knight of the Burning Pestle 1553.5 The State at War in The Spanish Tragedy 1613.6 Two Bodies: State and Self in Edward II 1673.7 Resistance to Tyranny in The Maid’s Tragedy 1733.8 Tyranny as a Boundary Condition for a Subject’s Violence: The Duchess of Malfi and The Revenger’s Tragedy 1893.9 Republic and Tyranny in Sejanus 190Part Four: Not Shakespeare – Lives of the Theater Poets 2074.1 “Non-Shakespearean”: The Dire Privative 2074.2 Christopher Marlowe 2094.3 Ben Jonson 2114.4 Thomas Middleton 2154.5 Thomas Kyd 2174.6 Thomas Dekker 2184.7 Francis Beaumont 2184.8 John Fletcher 2194.9 John Ford 2204.10 John Marston 2214.11 Philip Massinger 2214.12 Elizabeth Cary 222Appendix: Performance History 225Bibliography 245Index 251