Stephen Greenblatt

The Norton Shakespeare, based on the Oxford edition

Instructors and students worldwide welcomed the fresh scholarship, lively and accessible introductions, helpful marginal glosses and notes, readable single-column format, all designed in support of the goal of the Oxford text: to bring the modern reader closer than before possible to Shakespeares plays as they were first acted. Now, under Stephen Greenblatts direction, the editors have considered afresh each introduction and all of the apparatus to make the Second Edition an even better teaching tool.

A new history of early English drama

Introduction: Demanding HistoryWorld Pictures, Modern Periods, and the Early Stage, by Margreta de GraziaThe English Church as Theatrical Space, by John M. Wasson,A Commonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling trick: Household Theater, by Suzanne WestfallThe Universities: Early Staging in Cambridge, by Alan H. NelsonEarly Staging in Oxford, by John R. Elliott, Jr.Streets and Markets, by Anne HigginsThe Theaters, by John OrrellRowme of its Own: Printed Drama in Early Libraries, by Heidi Brayman HackelTheater and Religious Culture, by Paul Whitfield WhiteWonderful Spectacles: Theater and Civic Culture, by Gordon Kipling,The Theater and Domestic Culture, by Diana E. HendersonEntertainments at Court, by Graham ParryThe Theater and Literary Culture, by Barbara A. MowatTheater and Popular Culture, by Michael D. BristolTouring, by Peter H. GreenfieldCloathes worth all the rest: Costumes and Properties, by Jean MacIntyre and Garret P.J. EppCensorship, by Richard DuttonAudiences: Investigation, Interpretation, Invention, by Ann Jennalie CookRogues and Rhetoricians: Acting Styles in Early English Drama, by Peter ThomsonPersonnel and Professionalization, by W.R. StreitbergerPlaywriting: Authorship and Collaboration, by Jeffrey MastenThe Publication of Playbooks, by Peter W. M. BlaneyPatronage and the Economics of Theater, by Kathleen E. McLuskie and Felicity DunsworthThe Revision of Scripts, by Eric RasmussenThe Repertory, by Roslyn L. KnutsonPlays in Manuscript, by Paul Werstine

Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre, and the Representation of Rebellion

In 1525, determined to set his country’s art on a rational footing by instructing its youth in the skills of applied geometry and perspective, Albrecht Durer published his Painter’s Manual, “A Manual of Measurement of Lines, Areas, and Solids by Means of Compass and Ruler.” Among the detailed instructions—for the determination of the center of a circle, the construction of spirals and egg-shaped lines, the design of tile patterns, the building of a sundial, and so forth—I would like to dwell upon Durer’s plans for several civic monuments, for as I hope to show, these plans provide a suggestive introduction to the problematic relation in the Renaissance between genre and historical experience.

Hamlet in Purgatory

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements xi Prologue 3 Chapter One: A Poets Fable 10 Chapter Two: Imagining Purgatory 47 Chapter Three: The Rights of Memory 102 Chapter Four: Staging Ghosts 151 Chapter Five: Remember Me 205 Epilogue 258 Notes 263 Index 315