The Shakespearean Forest

Klappentext Anne Barton's final book uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power. Zusammenfassung Anne Barton's final book uncovers woodland's persistent imaginative power in renaissance drama. Paying close attention to the practicalities of performance, the collection is representative of Barton's breadth of scholarship: it considers plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, court pageants, treatises on forestry and chronicle history.

Auteur

Anne Barton was the author of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean (1994), Byron: Don Juan (1992), The Names of Comedy (1990), Ben Jonson, Dramatist (1984) and, (as Anne Righter), Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play (1962), as well as many essays and introductions. In 2000, she retired as Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, where she was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; she had previously been a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Girton College, Cambridge, and was a Fellow of the British Academy. From the 1960s onwards, her work had a profound influence on the Royal Shakespeare Company and the performance and academic study of early modern drama more generally. Anne Barton died in 2013.

Résumé
Anne Barton's final book uncovers woodland's persistent imaginative power in renaissance drama. Paying close attention to the practicalities of performance, the collection is representative of Barton's breadth of scholarship: it considers plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, court pageants, treatises on forestry and chronicle history.

Contenu

Foreword Adrian Poole; Editor's note Hester Lees-Jeffries; Acknowledgements; 1. Into the woods; 2. Staging the forest; 3. The wild man in the forest; 4. 'Like the old Robin Hood of England'; 5. The forest and the city; 6. Let the forest judge; Afterword: Anne Barton (1933 2013) Peter Holland; Further reading; Index.