"In his 1998 biography Shakespeare: A Life, Park Honan vows to avoid '[i]
maginative reconstructions and elaborate psychological theories' (ix), focusing
instead on illustrating the 'Tudor social milieu' (xi) alongside 'the complex
evolution in ..."
1616 Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China by Tian Yuan Tan, PaulEdmondson, Shih-Pe Wang 352 Pages, Published 2016 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-8343-7, ISBN: 1-4725-8343-4
"... juan xia 卷下). For the aria, see Wang Shifu, Xixiangji 1.2 (in this essay, I use
the book number before the period and act number after the period), 'Wu sha' (
fifth from coda), photographic reproduction of the 1498 edition (Shijiazhuang:
Hebei jiaoyu chubanshe, 2006), 47a. ... (eds and trans), The Story of the Western
Wing (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 134. ... Nine in the fifth
place refers to the fifth p ..."
"Introduction: Great. Creating. Shakespeare. Paul. Edmondson. and. Peter.
Holbrook. The art itself is nature. THE WINTER'S TALE, 4.4.97 Four hundred
years on from the beginning of one of the strongest of all artistic legacies, we –
artists, writers, performers and readers – continue to create and recreate
Shakespeare. Why? Some explanations are obvious: the sheer unmatched
eloquence of the writing; the cultural prestige of the works ..."
1616 Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China by Tian Yuan Tan, PaulEdmondson, Shih-Pe Wang 352 Pages, Published 2016 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-8344-4, ISBN: 1-4725-8344-2
"... foreign merchants were allowed to reside for six months a year but forbidden to
learn Chinese. For the first translation of a Chinese play we have to wait until
1735, when the French translation of Ji Junxiang's (fl. late thirteenth century)
Zhaoshi gu'er (The Orphan of Zhao) was published by the French Jesuit
missionary Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare (1666–1736) as L'Orphelin de la
maison Tchao, Tragédie chinoise in Du Halde's ..."
Shakespeare Ideas in Profile by PaulEdmondson 186 Pages, Published 2015 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-103-7, ISBN: 1-78283-103-7
"Criticism Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells, eds, The Oxford Companion to
Shakespeare (2001): an essential A–Z of Shakespeare Studies. Margreta de
Grazia and Stanley Wells, eds, The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
(2010): the latest iteration of a volume of essays about contemporary
Shakespearian studies. Ewan Fernie and Simon Palfrey, eds, Shakespeare Now!
(from 2010): a series of fresh, experimental and original approaches. ..."
Shakespeare Ideas in Profile by PaulEdmondson 186 Pages, Published 2015 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-136-5, ISBN: 1-78283-136-3
"In this lively and authoritative introduction, Paul Edmondson presents Shakespeare afresh as a dramatist and poet, and encourages us to take ownership of the works for ourselves as words to be spoken as well as discussed."
"introduction. paul. edmondson. and. stanley. wells. g. Imagination is needed if we
are to bring the information we have about another human being to life. When the
subject is Shakespeare, although we may continually lament that the facts we
most desire do not exist, we may decide to broaden the scope of how to use what
is available the better to imagine what his life was like. Biographers of
Shakespeare normally and understandably ..."
"The Oxfordian message was adapted to a juvenile audience by Lynne Kositsky in
her time-travel fantasy A Question of l/Vill.I3 Like Stratfordian equivalents, such
as Susan Cooper's King of Shadows,14 Kositsky's novel features a modern ...
She then asks her friend John Pyke to ensure that the authorship secret will be
revealed after Oxford's death, and when ... De Vere's name on it: through a well-
known time-travel paradox, Perin has ..."
"In one production at the RSC in 1978, the actress Paola Dionisotti and her
director Barry Kyle disagreed strongly over how Isabella should react to the Duke
at the end of the play. Speaking to Carol Chillington Rutter, Dionisotti complained
that ..."
Twelfth Night by PaulEdmondson 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-20437-9, ISBN: 0-230-20437-6
"rekindled a theory of F. G. Fleay, of 1876, that Shakespeare revised the text in Act
II, scene iv. Viola intends to sing for Orsino (I.ii.54–5) and is called on to do so (II.
iv.2–3). But Feste sings instead. The theory goes that the boy actor who played
Viola could not sing (or not well enough), but that the necessary revision was not
made consistently throughout the text. It is even possible that Shakespeare's first
Viola could si ..."
Twelfth Night by PaulEdmondson 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-137-20562-9, ISBN: 1-137-20562-8
"Fielding, Emma, Twelfth Night, Actors on Shakespeare (London: Faber and
Faber, 2002): a useful account of Viola, and ... Richard Mangan (London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004): an invaluable collection of insights into
Gielgud's life, ... for Actors (London: Shakespeare Society, 1841): a vindication of
the stage and of the professional theatre, first published in 1612. ... Twelfth Night
or What You Will: Texts and Contexts (Boston ..."
"She has edited Dorothea Tieck'S translation of Shakespeare's sonnets (1992)
and Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint. ... For Delaware Press she edited
German Shakespeare Studies at the Turn of the Twenty—first Century (2006) ,
and Shakespeare ... edition of Gundolf's and Wenghb'fer's (hitherto unpublished)
translations of Shakespeare's sonnets and narrative poems. ... Between 1982
and 1996 She was Executive Director ofthe Folger Inst ..."