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Joseph Candido is professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He has published extensively on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, particularly the history plays, and is the editor of the King John volume in the Athlone Press series Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition (1996).
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionJoseph Candido- The Ends of Time in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
Rebecca Bushnell- Marlowe in Edward II: Lender or Borrower?
Brian Vickers- Edward II in Performance from the 1980s to the Present
David Bevington- The Transitory Playhouse: The Theatre, Rose, and Fortune
S. P. Cerasano- Shakespeare and his Fellows: Honored at Somerset House?
Leeds Barroll- Richard II on Screens
Peter Holland- The (Mis)fortunes of Falstaff in Performance
James C. Bulman- How the Noble Spanish Soldier Describes a Battle
Lois Potter- The Staging of the Problematic Attempted Rape Scene of The Two Gentlemenof Verona as the Culmination of the Play’s Anti-RomanticThematic Concerns
R. W. Desai- Across the Narrow Sea: The 1620 Leipzig Volume of English Plays
June Schlueter- Shakespearean Comedy and the Boundaries of Europe
Michael Dobson- George Wither’s Response to Othello
David M. Bergeron- Jonson’sEpigramsand the Learned Critics
Peter E. MedineAppendix: Charles R. Forker: A Bibliography of Published Works(1958-2014)BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
Candido has assembled a remarkably cohesive collection of original essays by distinguished scholars that does justice to Charles R. Forker’s remarkable career.
— Renaissance Quarterly