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The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Kevin A Quarmby
   
 

 

 

 
 
Shakespeare Survey 64 (2011)

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for volume 64 is 'Shakespeare as Cultural Catalyst'.

Kevin A. Quarmby's article, 'Narrative of negativity: Whig historiography and the spectre of King James in Measure for Measure', is published in this volume.

   
         
 

Shakespeare is a major peer-reviewed journal, publishing articles drawn from the best of current international scholarship on the most recent developments in Shakespearean criticism. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between the disciplines of Shakespeare in Performance Studies and Shakespeare in English Literature and Language.

‘“As the cony that you see”: Rosalind's Risqué Rabbits in As You Like It ', Shakespeare , 6:2 ( 2010) , 153-64

In As You Like It , Rosalind makes a passing comment in response to Orlando's questioning which seems, in all innocence, to refer to rabbits gambolling contentedly in Arden's idyllic forest. Assuring him that she is native to the place, Rosalind invokes the image of the “coney” that dwells near where it is kindled as proof of her local heritage. Twenty-first-century actors delivering this line regularly use a pronunciation for “coney” that would, for any early modern audience, seem particularly alien. This article traces the history of the word “coney”, its banishment from later editions of Bowdler's Family Shakspeare , as well as its reinstatement following alteration by a nineteenth-century lexicographer who sought to make it sound acceptable for family reading. In doing so, it highlights the overtly sexual meaning of the word, linked as it appears to slang terminology for the female pudenda and thus the commodification of the female body, so restoring its potential as Rosalind's cryptic pun about the hidden truth of her “Ganymede” disguise.

   
         
  Article on the 1980 Jonathan Pryce Hamlet and Peter O'Toole Macbeth now accessible as part of the Routledge Shakespeare Virtual Special Issues.
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Academic Contributor to The Shakespeare Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide to the Man and His Works , ed. A.D. Cousins (London: Apple Books, 2009). Articles on As You Like It, pp. 120-25, Measure for Measure, pp. 144-9, King Lear,   pp. 194-203 and  Macbeth,   pp. 204-13 .    
         
 
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 "A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Study of Rehearsal and Performance Practice in the 1980 Royal Court Hamlet and the Old Vic Macbeth: An Actor's View", Shakespeare, 1 (2005), 174-87. The official journal of the British Shakespeare Association view here
   
     
 
Quarmby's Academic Reviews of Early Modern Drama appear regularly in Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama view here
ROMARD is the offical journal of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
   
     
  Early Modern Literary Studies

Quarmby's 2002 review of the RSC production of Edward III is acknowledged in Dr Sonia Massai's 'Redefining the Role of the Editor for the Electronic Medium: A New Internet Shakespeare Edition of Edward III ', Early Modern Literary Studies 9.3 / Special Issue 12 (January, 2004): 5.1-10 view here

 
     
 
Kevin A. Quarmby is an official academic contributor for The Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies orABES specializing in Renaissance and Early Modern English Literature view here
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