Shakespeare, Text and Theater: Essays in Honor of Jay L. Halio

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• Shakespeare: Text and Theater 1
• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Illustrations 7
• Preface and Acknowledgments 9
• Part One: Texts 15
• The First Folio: Where Should We Be without It? 17
• “All We like Sheep …” 33
• Still Babbling of Green Fields: Mr. Greenfields and the Twenty-Third Psalm 45
• “So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion”: Or, What Else Was a Midsummer Night's Dream About? 1 62
• “The Gift Is Small, / the Will Is All”: Musings for Jay Halio 92
• Part Two: Performances 107
• A Polish Gentleman's Visit to London Theaters in 1820–1821 109
• How Revolutionary Is Cross-Cast Shakespeare? a Look at Five Contemporary Productions 120
• Strands Too Far Remote: A Note on Translating the Political and the Politics of Translation 136
• Beginning with Branagh: Romeo and Juliet, Hammersmith, 1986 146

• Shakespeare: Text and Theater 1
• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Illustrations 7
• Preface and Acknowledgments 9
• Part One: Texts 15
• The First Folio: Where Should We Be without It? 17
• “All We like Sheep …” 33
• Still Babbling of Green Fields: Mr. Greenfields and the Twenty-Third Psalm 45
• “So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion”: Or, What Else Was a Midsummer Night's Dream About? 1 62
• “The Gift Is Small, / the Will Is All”: Musings for Jay Halio 92
• Part Two: Performances 107
• A Polish Gentleman's Visit to London Theaters in 1820–1821 109
• How Revolutionary Is Cross-Cast Shakespeare? a Look at Five Contemporary Productions 120
• Strands Too Far Remote: A Note on Translating the Political and the Politics of Translation 136
• Beginning with Branagh: Romeo and Juliet, Hammersmith, 1986 146
• To Know a Shakespeare Character 163
• The Readiness Was All: Ian Charleson and Richard Eyre's Hamlet 170
• Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: The Film 183
• Cori-Ollie-Anus 1 : Shakespeare's Last Tragedy and American Politics in 1988 195
• Staging the Tempest as an Alchemical Experiment in the Theater 209
• Part Three: Text and Performance 227
• Stage Directions as Evidence: The Question of Provenance 229
• Show Business: The Editor in the Theater 248
• “Oh Be Some Other Name”: Translating Romeo and Juliet 266
• Humor out of Breath: Francis Gentleman and the Henry IV Plays 285
• Editing Informed by Performance History: The Double Ending of Troilus and Cressida 298
• Two Lears: Notes for an Actor 310
• Staging the Comedy of Errors 320
• A Checklist Jay L. Halio 332
• Contributors 334
• Index to Works By, or Attributed To, William Shakespeare 338
• General Index 340