Introduction: Shakespeare and Riot

Riot Surgery

Sir,?The statement made by Dr. A. IC. Basu in his article 'Experience of Riot Surgery' (I.M.G., August 1947, p. 465) that 'shock for some reasons is conspicuously absent in these cases in the first few hours (Som and Mukherjee, 1947). In my experience this is dangerous teachingis utterly untrue and misleading. We never said that shock was conspicuously absent in all cases. We said in summary th...

Triaging Shakespeare

Dear Ben, I just got the reviews back on my grant proposal for Hamlet, the new play I was telling you about. I applied to the National Institutes of Health in America this time—the RFA said they’re interested in creative new ideas and all that rot but they’re just as conservative as here in England. It wasn’t even discussed! I’ll wager it was those scoundrels Beaumont and Fletcher that sank it....

Shakespeare, Text and Paratext

The early modern dramatic paratext is a rich and varied repository of tributes to patrons and readers, where dramatists negotiated or parodied their attitudes towards dramatic publication and their reliance on the medium of print as a source of income and literary reputation. However, the lack of signed dedications or addresses to the reader in the early editions of Shakespeare’s plays has defl...

Riot Surgery

Riot Control Agents