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Jeffrey Kahan's Publications
Newest Book: King Lear: New Critical Essays
Is King Lear an autonomous
text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play
King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original
quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or
the popular composite version, stitched together by
Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When
turning from page to stage, the critical view on King
Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the
four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences
preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear
and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing
King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is
both complex and fragmentary.
These issues of identity and
authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined,
debated, and considered critically by the contributors to
this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from
postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and
gender studies, the leading international contributors to
King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new
interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and
cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an
up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual
scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on
one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing
tragedies.
Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes,
Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward
L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young,
Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink.
More Books By Jeffrey
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Academic Books
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· The Cult of Kean: A Study of Cultural Appropriation
(Ashgate 2006).
· (With Stan Stewart) Caped
Crusaders 101 (McFarland, 2006).
· Reforging Shakespeare
(London, New York : AUP, 1998).
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Academic Editions
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Editor and Contributor, King Lear: New Critical Essays (Routledge, 2008)
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Editor, The Abbess (Zittaw, 2007).
·
Editor, Much Ado About
Nothing (Shakespeare Sourcebook, 2006).
· Editor, Robert Southey's Epic Poetry
(University of
Gloucester, 2006).
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Editor,
Rimauldo (Zittaw, 2006).
· Editor, Gondez, The Monk (Zittaw, 2005).
· Editor,
Shakespeare Imitations and Forgeries 1710- 1820. 3 vols.
(Routledge,
August 2004).
· Editor, The Poetry of William-Henry Ireland
(Mellon Press,
August 2004).
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Editorships (Journals, Multimedia)
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· (I) Journals: Guest Editor, Cithara, Fall 2006.
The Dark Man: A Journal Dedicated to the
Work of Robert E. Howard, January 2005-present.
· (II) Multimedia: The Compendium of Renaissance Drama, Gen. Ed. Brian Corrigan. (Films for the Humanities,
forthcoming).
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Popular Books
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· Shakespeare for Children: The Winter's Tale (Millennium
Shakespeare Series, 2006).
· Shakespeare for Children: King Lear (Millennium
Shakespeare Series, 2006).
· Shakespeare for Children: Merry Wives of Windsor
(Shakespeare Millennium Series, July 2006).
· Co-Editor, Passions and Poisons: The Prose and Poetry of
New Canadian Writers (Montreal: Nu-Age Editions, 1987).
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Academic Articles
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· “Canonical Breaches and Apocryphal Patches.”
Shakespeare Yearbook (2007): 293-216.
· "Conan the Shakespearean/Hamlet the Barbarian" for
The
Dark Man Journal
(2006): 79-96.
· "Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Anticipating 1603,"
Cithara 44.1 (2004): 3-21.
· "Shakespeare and the Forging of Belief."
Critical
Quarterly 43.2(2001): 19-33.
· "Violating Hippocrates: Thomas Nashe's 'The Choice of
Valentines'." Para-Doxa (1996): 204-216.
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Chapters
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· “ 'Shakspeare Ireland’s' Gothics" for Shakespearean Gothics (forthcoming, 2009).
· “Edward
III Promptbook: Recording a Production.” Edward III, ed. Sonia Massai. British Columbia: ISE, University of
Victoria, 2003.
· “Reflections and Speculations on Two Recent Editions of Edward III.”
Edward III, ed. Sonia Massai. British Columbia: ISE,
University of Victoria, 2003.
· "Cuckoldry in A Midsummer Night's Dream"
in The Question of Fidelity (Reims: University of Reims, France, 1995), 141-167.
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Encyclopedia Entries
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· “Poets Laureate” in The Encyclopedia of British Literature
and Poetry, ed. David Kastan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
· “William-Henry Ireland,” in Cambridge Bibliography of
English Literature. 3rd ed., 1700-1800 (Films for the Humanities, 2006).
· Main contributor for “Philip Massinger” in
Compendium of
Renaissance Drama (Films for the Humanities, forthcoming): Specific entries as
follows: Believe as You List, The City Madam, The Duke of Milan, The Duke of
Florence, The Maid of Honor, The Picture, The Guardian, A Very Woman, The
Unnatural Combat, The Virgin Martyr, The Parliament of Love, The Bondman,
The Renegado, Empire of the East, The Bashful Lover, Love’s Cure, Lisander
and Calista.
· Additional Entries for Compendium of Renaissance Drama
(Films for the Humanities, forthcoming): Fletcher: A Very Woman; Fletcher, Love’s
Cure, Fletcher, The Lovers’ Progress; Chettle: Hoffman.
· "King James I,” in Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and
Cultures, ed. George E. Haggerty (New York: Garland , 2000).
· “Beaumont and Fletcher,” in Encyclopedia of Gay Histories
and Cultures, ed. George E. Haggerty (New York: Garland, 2000).
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Academic Notes
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· “The
Future of R.E. Howard Scholarship: A Reply to S.T. Joshi,” The Dark Man
2.1.(2006): 62-9
· “The
Double Falshood and the
Spanish
Curate:
A Further Fletcher Connection.”
ANQ 20.1(2007): 33-35.
· “Shakespeare’s Hector and Heywood’s The Rape of Lucrece,” ANQ 18.2 (2205): 25-6.
· “A
Further note on Semiramus,” ANQ
18.2 (2205): 27-8.
· "The Additions to The Spanish Tragedy and it's Subsequent Influence
on A Warning for Fair Women."
ANQ
17.2
(2004): 20-4.
· “The ‘First Critic’ Debate.” Shakespeare Newsletter 53.3 (2004): 79-80, 88.
· “An Argument for Emending Bazardo to Buzalto in the 1602
version of The Spanish Tragedy.” ELN
30.2 (2003): 13-9.
· “Two Editions of Edward III: A Study in Editorial
Approaches.” Shakespeare Newsletter 51:3 (2001 for 2002): 69, 72.
· “Is the Sanders Portrait a Forgery?” Shakespeare Newsletter 51:4 (2002): 81-82, 86, 92, 98, 100-102.
· “Red Hair as Sign of Jewry in Middleton's Additions to Macbeth.” ELN
40.1 (2002), 42-3. "
· Bardolph and 'carry coals': A New Reading for Henry V 3.2.45." ANQ 14.3(2201):14-5.
· "Tree or Trellis? Jacobean Displays of Death and The Duchess of Malfi.” ELN 37.3(2000):35.
· "Reinterpreting the Title-Page to Troilus Q1b." ANQ 13.4 (2000):16.
· "Ancient/Ensign Pistol and A Match at Midnight." ANQ 13.4 (2000): 16.
· "Le Morte D'Arthur and Cymbeline.” ELN XXXVII.4 (June 2000): 19-21.
· "Reforging Macklin: Another Attempt By George Steevens to
Vex Edmond Malone." The Ben Jonson Journal 6 (1999):1-9.
· "Re-Evaluating Philip Edwards's Argument: Could Burbage
Have played Hieronimo?" The Ben Jonson Journal
5 (1998): 253-5.
· Interview with Psycho-author Robert Bloch." PARA*DOXA. 4.9 (1998):148-154.
· "A Further Gloss on The Alchemist (5.5.42)." ELN
34.3(1997):
21-4.
· "Henry Chettle and the Unreliable Romeo." Upstart Crow 16(1996): 92-100.
· "Shakespeare and Noh: An Interview With Kunyioshi
Munakata." Shakespeare Bulletin (Winter, 1996): 26-28.
· "Chettle's Romeo Q1 and The Death of Robert, Earl of
Huntingdon." Notes and Queries (June, 1996): 155-7.
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Conference Papers
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· “Forgery
and the Editorial Process.” NEASECS, Salem State College, Salem, 2006
November 9-12.
· " 'Shakespeare Ireland's"
Gothics." International Gothic Association, 12 August, Montreal, Canada.
· “Kean and the Theatre of
Boxing,” Shakespeare Roundtable. Los Angeles. 19 March 2005.
· "Shakespeare Imitations and Forgeries." Keynote speaker, 8th Annual Shakespeare Festival, Texas A&M, 3 March 2005.
· “New Shakespeare: Now With Added Lustre” Shakespeare
Symposium, Cal State Long Beach, 17 November 2003 and UCLA Shakespeare
Symposium 8 May 2004.
· “Shakespeare and Star Trek: Beaming the Bard into the 23rd
Century.” ULV Shakespeare Day Celebration, 21 April 2004.
· “New Shakespeare: Now With Added Lustre” Shakespeare
Symposium, Cal State Long Beach, 17 November 2003 and UCLA Shakespeare
Symposium 8 May 2004.
· “Kean’s Corsican Othello,” UCLA Shakespeare Symposium,
11-12 May 2003 and ALSC,
Atlanta, 24 Oct. 2003.
· “Reflections and Speculations on Two Recent Editions of
Edward III,” Shakespeare Association of America, Victoria, 10 April 2003.
· “Introducing the Compendium of Renaissance Drama,”
Shakespeare Association of America, Victoria, 11 April 2003.
· “Julius Caesar and 1603: Forbidden Imaginings of the
Post-Elizabethan Court.” Shakespeare Association of America, Victoria, 12
April 2003.
· “Transvestitism, Voyeurism, and Power in Thomas Nashe’s
“The Choice of Valentines,” Cal State Symposium 15-6 November 2002.
· “Chatterton’s Manuscripts and Boswell’s Johnson,” given at
the Thomas Chatterton and Western Culture 250th Anniversary Conference . 6-8
September 2002, Bristol, England.
· “Censorship and the Silences in
Julius Caesar,” given at
the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Association. 4-6 April 2002, Los Angeles.
· “Is the Recently Discovered Shakespeare Portrait a Fake?”
given at 2002 Popular Culture Association, 13-6 March 2002. Toronto, Canada.
· “Macbeth and McViegh: Setting the World in World” given at
the Shakespeare Association of America Conference. 21-3 March 2002
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
· “Macbeth and the Death Penalty,” given at the Shakespeare
and Popular Culture Conference. 13-14 February 2002 Albuquerque, New Mexico.
· “ ‘Reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning’: Kean and
Coleridge,” given at ALSC Seventh Annual Conference. 26-8 October 2001, San
Francisco.
· “Julius Caesar and Re-Presenting the Past.” Cal State
Shakespeare Symposium 9-11 November, Fullerton.
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Book & Film Reviews
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· James Shapiro, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare:
1599, in Shakespeare Yearbook (forthcoming).
· W.H.
Auden, The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare’s The
Tempest, in Shakespeare Yearbook (forthcoming).
· Robert E. Howard, The Bloody Crown of Conan, for
The Dark
Man (forthcoming, 2005).
· Robert E. Howard, Boxing Stories, in
The Dark Man (forthcoming, 2005).
· Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman, John
Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery, for Literary Imagination 7.2 (2005): 263-8.
· Brian Wooland, Jonsonians, for
New England Theatre Journal 14(2004); 121-3.
· Peter Ackroyd, The Lambs of London, for
MLS 34.1-2
(2004), 108-112.
· Graham Holderness, Visual Shakespeares
in New England
Theatre Journal 14(2003):132-4.
· Carol Jones Carlisle, Helen Faucit: Fire and Ice on the
Victorian Stage in Shakespeare Newsletter 52.4 (2003): 107, 115.
· Three texts on Authenticity: Harold Love, Attributing
Authorship: An Introduction; K.K. Ruthven, Faking Literature;
Nick Groom. The Forger’s Shadow: How Forgery Changed the
Course of Literature in
Shakespeare Newsletter 52:3. (Fall 2002): 75-76.
· Allen Bloom, Shakespeare on Love and Friendship
in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinarian Journal 31.4(2002):529-31.
· Stephen Orgel (ed.), The
Winter's Tale in Shakespeare Yearbook (1999): 322-5.
· Review of film, The Royal
Deceit for Shakespeare Bulletin 19.1(2001): 43.
· Review of Karen Bumford, Sexual Violence on the Jacobean
Stage in Shakespeare Newsletter 50:3. 246 (fall
2001): 87.
· Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt in
The Ben Jonson Journal 5 (1998):327-8.
· Kate Aughterson (ed.),
Renaissance Women: Constructions of Femininity in England in
Renaissance Quarterly (51.1.1998): 693-4.
· Paul Hamilton, Historicism
in Renaissance Quarterly
(50.4.1997):1202.
· Susan Bennett, Performing
Nostalgia in Renaissance Quarterly (50.3.1997): 884-5.
· Cerasano and Wynne-Davies (eds.),
Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents in Renaissance
Quarterly (50.1.2. 1997): 273-5.
· R.W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular
Propaganda for the German Reformation
in Renaissance Quarterly (50.1.2.
1997): 299-300.
· Niomi Conn Liebler,
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre in
EMLS (January 1997): 2.3.Electronic journal.
· R.A. Foakes, Hamlet Versus Lear
in Cahier Elisabethian.
Montpellier: Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier III, Spring, 1994
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