Lois Potter
Author of The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography
About the Author
Lois Potter recently retired as Ned B. Allen Chair at the University of Delaware. She has also taught at the Universities of Aberdeen, Leicester, and Paris Ill-Sorbonne Nouvelle, and at Tsuda College, Tokyo. Her publications include Twelfth Night: Text and Performance (1986), the Arden edition of show more The Two Noble Kinsmen (1997, 2001), and Shakespeare in Performance: Othello (2002). She is also the editor of two volumes in the Revels History of Drama in English series (1981 and 1984), and has been a frequent reviewer of plays for the Times Literary Supplement, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Shakespeare Bulletin. show less
Works by Lois Potter
As water is in water 1 copy
Associated Works
Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature (2007) — Contributor — 95 copies, 2 reviews
Shakespeare in Our Time: A Shakespeare Association of America Collection (2016) — Contributor — 17 copies
The text, the play, and the Globe : essays on literary influence in Shakespeare's world and his work in honor of Charles R. Forker (2016) — Contributor — 10 copies
Shakespeare - Tragédies, coffret de 2 volumes : Oeuvres complètes, tome 1 et 2 (2002) — Translator, some editions — 9 copies
Thunder at a playhouse essaying Shakespeare and the early modern stage (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies
"A Poet and a filthy Play-maker": New Essays on Christopher Marlowe (AMS Studies in the Renaissance) (1988) — Contributor — 4 copies
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Published 2013 (audio version, the one I’ve used; print edition published 2012).
Imagine yourself at the Globe to see a Shakespeare play, preferably Hamlet (my favourite…). Keep on imagining standing among the crowd, quite near the stage, on a rainy evening. You look around and see people from all walks of life, from different countries and cultures, all mesmerized by the Bard's words...almost 400 hundred years later. Imagine laughing so heartily with the rest of the audience, show more practically falling off your wooden chair. The actors are absolutely amazed and unbelieving at the rapturous applause they receive. You cheer them to the rafters. You start to have an inkling of how audiences of Shakespeare's own time must have received his plays. My reading of Shakespeare makes me “re-live” stuff like these. I feel his writing will allow me to deepen my own self-knowledge as well.
If you're into Shakespeare, read the rest on my blog. show less
Imagine yourself at the Globe to see a Shakespeare play, preferably Hamlet (my favourite…). Keep on imagining standing among the crowd, quite near the stage, on a rainy evening. You look around and see people from all walks of life, from different countries and cultures, all mesmerized by the Bard's words...almost 400 hundred years later. Imagine laughing so heartily with the rest of the audience, show more practically falling off your wooden chair. The actors are absolutely amazed and unbelieving at the rapturous applause they receive. You cheer them to the rafters. You start to have an inkling of how audiences of Shakespeare's own time must have received his plays. My reading of Shakespeare makes me “re-live” stuff like these. I feel his writing will allow me to deepen my own self-knowledge as well.
If you're into Shakespeare, read the rest on my blog. show less
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