Words That Count: Essays on Early Modern Authorship in Honor of Macdonald P. Jackson

by Brian Boyd (Editor), MacDonald P. Jackson (Editor)

Overview

Scholars of English literature from New Zealand, the US. Britain, and Switzerland explore questions of authorship and authority in Marlowe, Peele, Shakespeare, Middleton, Webster, and other playwrights in the period from the 1580s to the 1620s. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874138689
Publisher:	University of Delaware Press
Publication date:	09/28/2004
Pages:	291
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

	Introductions
	"A Green Bay-Tree": Tribute to MacDonald P. Jackson	11
	Words That Count: Introduction	15
	1580s-Early 1590s: Marlowe
	The Great Divide of 1954	29
	1590s: Shakespeare and Peele
	Kind and Unkindness: Aaron in Titus Andronicus	51
	The Troublesome Raigne, George Peele, and the Date of King John	78
	Did Shakespeare Write A Lover's Complaint? The Jackson Ascription Revisited	117
	The Verse of A Lover's Complaint: Not Shakespeare	140
	1600s: Shakespeare and Middleton
	"Servile Ministers": Othello, King Lear, and the Sacralization of Service	161
	The Pattern of Collaboration in Timon of Athens	181
	1610s-1620s: Webster and Heywood
	"Strong commanding Art": The Structure of The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Devil's Law-Case	209
	Mutinous Soldiers and Shouts [Within]: Stage Directions and Early Modern Dramaturgy	222
	1620s: Middleton, Rowley, Ford, and Dekker
	Thomas Middleton, The Spanish Gypsy, and Collaborative Authorship	241
	MacDonald P. Jackson: A Bibliography	274
	Notes on Contributors	281
	Index	285