Arden Shakespeare Temporality, Genre and Experience in the Age of Shakespeare: Forms of Time

Focusing on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, these original essays by leading scholars explore how theatrical, aesthetic, and linguistic forms engage early modern experiences of temporality. Encompassing comedy, tragedy, history, and romance, some contributions consider how different models of pastness, presentness, sequentiality, memory, and historical meaning underwrite particular representational practices. Others, conversely, investigate how aesthetic forms afforded diverse ways for early-modern people to understand or experience time - and how this can impact us today. List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowlegements Note on Texts 1. Introduction: Forms of Time (Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, USA) Part One: Illuminating 2. Shakespeare's theater of comic time (Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland, College Park, USA) 3. Suspense Revisited: The Shared Experience of Time (Raphael Falco, University of Maryland, USA) 4. 'In the Course and Process of Time': Rupture, Reflection and Repetition in Henry VIII (Philip Lorenz, Cornell University, USA) Part Two: Synthesizing 5. Is Henry V still a history play? (Andrew Griffin, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 6. Allusion, Temporality, and Genre in Pericles and Troilus and Cressida (Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, USA) Part Three: Misaligning 7. Love's Labours Lost and the Layered Temporality of Poetic Reception (Matthew Harrison, Albion College, USA) 8. Timing The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Genre, Style, and Performance (Lucy Munro, King's College, London, UK) 9. Time, Tragedy and the Text of Antony and Cleopatra (Rebecca Bushnell, University of Pennsylvania, USA) Part Four: Proliferating 10. 'The Death of Fathers': Succession and Diachronic Time in Shakespearean Tragedy (William C. Carroll, Boston University, USA) 11. Passionate Time in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam (Lara Dodds, University of Mississippi, USA) 12. Future Histories in King Lear (Meredith Beales, University of Victoria, Canada) Part Five: Pleating 13. Last Judgement to Leviathan: The Semiotics of Collective Temporality in Early Modern England (Robin Scott Stewart, University of California, Irvine, USA) 14. Cymbeline, Janus, and Folded Time (Valerie Wayne, University of Hawaii, USA) Notes Index