... succinctly noted. The hours of drudgery which any historian of the stage is bound to by his profession have borne fruit, as witnessed, in this volume, by the many corrections of Allison Brown’s entries for the 1892-93 season which move the opening dates of such significant plays as Ludy...

... Nobility on the Seventeenth-Century Stage David Quint he rise in the 1980s of criticism intent on restoring historical mean- Ting to the literary text has raised questions about its capacity to rec- ognize the text as literary. If we read the text as another document of a given historical...

.... LAURAHIBBARD LOOMIS New York City The Vogue of Marmontel on the German Stage. By LAWRENCEMARS- DEN PRICE.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 27, No. 2, 1944. Pp. 27- 124. $1.00. Marmontel is known mainly as the author of the...

...Kenneth Neill Cameron Arthur C. Hicks and R. Milton Clarke. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1945. Pp. 156. $3.50. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Kcttneth N. Cameron 249 A Stage Version of Shelley’s “Cenci By ARTHURC. HICKSand...

... remarks probe to the heart of Germany’s present tragedy. A. CLOSS University of Bristol, England Mysteries’ End: An Investigation of the Last Days of the Medieval Stage. By HAROLDC. GARDINER, S. J. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1946. Pp...

... than did the critics of James’s day. Two errata may be noted: Milly Threale should read Milly Theale, and Elizabeth Cary should read Elisabeth Cary. LYONN. RICHARDSON Western Reserve University Annals of the New York Stage. Volume XIV (1888-1891). By...

... compelling and incisive account of the cross-dressed character on Shakespeare’s stage. In one of the first book-length studies to focus exclusively on this topic, 514 MIQ I December icy15 Shapiro analyzes cross-dressing as a “dramaturgical motif, a...

...Lawrence Marsden Price Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 THE WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH ON THE GERMAN STAGE, 1776-1795 By LAWRENCEMARSDEN PRICE Oliver Goldsmith became well known in Germany immediately after the publication of The...

...Jean E. Howard © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English at Columbia University. An editor of The Norton Shakespeare (1997) and author of,among other titles, The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994), she is now...

... Lewis Battles (Phila- delphia: Westminster Press, 1960), 11, 870. The Rakish Stage: Studies in English Drama, 1660-1800. By ROBERTD. HUME. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. xvi + 382 pp. $25.00. Robert Hume’s latest book represents not the fresh...

... carrying forward, in difficult days, its work of publication, and issuing its fourteenth volume of records in the twelfth year of its existence as a Society. HOYTH. HUDSON Stanford University The Jaco bean and Caroline Stage: Dramatic Companies and...

...EDGAR SCHELL S. Spinrad Phoebe. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987. xii + 334 pp. $30.00. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 REVIEWS The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage. By PHOEBES...

...Robert C. Jones Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 THE STAGE WORLD AND THE “REAL” WORLD IN MEDWALL’S FULGENS AND LUCRES By ROBERTC. JONES Descriptions of Henry Medwall’s Fulgens und Lucres sometimes give the...

...Alan C. Dessen Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE JEW AND CHRISTIAN EXAMPLE GERONTUS, BARABAS, AND SHYLOCK By ALANC. DESSEN There will be no final solution...

.... JOHN E. HANKINS University of Kansas This Grcat Stage: Image aptd Structure in King Lear. By ROBERTBECHTOLD HEILMAN.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1948. Pp. xi + 339. $3.50. The modern study of Shakespeare’s imagery provides us with interesting evidence...

...Ulrich Weisstein Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 CONCERNING THE WORD GOT(H)ISCH IN THE STAGE DIRECTIONS TO THE “NACHT” SCENE OF GOETHE’S FA UST By ULRICHWEISSTEIN To the casual reader of Goethe’s...

...Henry Ten Eyck Perry Emmett L. Avery. New York: Modern Language Association of America, Monograph Series XVIII, 1951. Pp. viii + 226. © 1954 University of Washington 1954 78 Reviews Congreve’s Plays on the Eighteenth-Century Stage. By EMMETTL. AVERY. New...

... early modern England. University of Washington 2007 Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage . By Gail Kern Paster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xv + 274 pp. Reviews Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage. By Gail Kern Paster...

... written.” SOPHUSKEITH WINTHER University of Washington Annals of the New York Stage. Vol. XIII (1885-1888). By GEORGE C. D. ODELL.New York: Columbia University Press, 1942. Pp. xviii + 723; illus. $8.75. As students of the theatre need not be...

...J. L. Styan Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 ∗ A paper given for the World Center for Shakespeare Studies Conference on Shake-speare and His Public at Northwestern University, February 1975. ELIZABETHAN OPEN STAGING WILLIAM POEL TO...