Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools 1599-1607

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. T.S. Eliot's Criticism of Elizabethan Drama 1
5. Theobald on Shakespeare's Sources 15
6. Shakespeare and the Dramatic Image 34
7. 'You that way; we this way': Shakespeare's Endings 44
8. Musical Cures of Melancholy and Mania in Shakespeare 55
9. Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools 1599-1607 68
10. Shakespeare's Mystery of Fooling 82
11. The Language of Fletcherian Tragicomedy 99
12. Richard III: Bonding the Audience 114
13. Playing the Crowd: Structure and Soliloquy in Tide Tarrieth No Man 128
14. Staging the Occult in 1 Henry IV 138
15. 2 Henry IV: The Last Tudor Royal Entry 149
16. The Ceremonies of Titus Andronicus 159
17. Sources and Meanings in Titus Andronicus 171
18. Macbeth and the Last Plays 189
19. Macbeth, Doctor Faustus, and the Juggling Fiends 208
20. The Emblematic Castle in Shakespeare and Middleton 223
21. Coriolanus and the Matter of Troy 242
22. Coriolanus and 'th'interpretation of the time' 261
23. 'Their noise be our instruction': Listening to Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus 277
24. Publication and Performance in Early Stuart Drama: Jonson, Webster, Heywood 295