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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 55, Issue 4)The National Theatre in Sofia, Bulgaria, has a long and honorable history, going back at least a century. Despite the vicissitudes of war, communism, and other political problems, it has continued to offer Shakespearean...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 65, Issue 1)Starting on July 30, 2015, the Gdanski Teatr Szekspirowski in Gdansk, Poland, sponsored the nineteenth-annual international Shakespeare festival. As on all previous occasions, the festival played host to companies...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 64, Issue 2)On the evening of September 19, 2014, the brand new Gdanski Teatr Szekspirowski opened in Gdansk, Poland. And what an opening it was! Attended by many distinguished guests, including the Prime Minister of Poland, the...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 67, Issue 2)As promised, Harold Bloom's third monograph on Shakespeare's greatest characters has now appeared: King Lear: The Great Image of Authority (Scribner's, 2018). Two more, on Hamlet and Rosalind, presumably will follow in...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 59, Issue 2)Shakespeareans: Forget Edinburgh! Go to Gdansk instead and to the amazing International Shakespeare Festival featuring productions by companies from all over the world. Now in its thirteenth year, it needs to be better...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 67, Issue 1)What a joy to read some intelligent and perceptive literary criticism by a scholar who eschews the usual academic idiom we have become used to. But then Harold Bloom was never one to follow the fashions and foibles of...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn his article "Reverse Anti-Semitism in the Fiction of Bellow and Roth" Jay L. Halio discusses anti-Semitism in Philip Roth's fiction that what might be called reverse anti- Semitism: the active reaction by Jews who...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 61, Issue 2)A perennially fascinating subject, sex has become the focus of many recent studies of Shakespeare as well as other authors. Several recently published dictionaries of sexual puns highlight this interest, making...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 62, Issue 1)Gabriel Egan has written an extraordinary survey and analysis of the immense amount of work, especially in the last century or so, by scholars attempting to establish what Shakespeare wrote and what he saw enacted...
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From:Comparative Drama (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMaria Franziska Fahey. Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama: Unchaste Signification. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xvii + 192. $80.00. Maria Fahey's book on Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama is part of a series...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 62, Issue 2)As thousands descended on London and its environs for the 2012 Olympic games, another kind of crowd gathered in Gdansk for the Sixteenth Annual Shakespeare Festival, put on once again by the ever resourceful Professor...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 58, Issue 1)At the biannual International Shakespeare Conference held in Stratfordupon-Avon, August 4-8, 2008, Professor Frank Occhiogrosso led a seminar on close reading of Shakespeare. Papers divided about equally on close...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionMost of Bernard Malamud's short stories are love stories, though love stories of an unusual kind. They are not the typical Romeo and Juliet tales in which boy meets girl. They deal with different kinds of love—between...
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From: Re-Visions of Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Robert Ornstein[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Halio contends that Shakespeare did not denounce Judaism as a religion in The Merchant of Venice, but rather condemned Shylock as a "renegade Jew." According to the critic,...
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From: Philip Roth RevisitedRoth's most famous protagonist, Alexander Portnoy, complains that he is living inside a Jewish joke and pleads with his psychiatrist, Dr. Spielvogel, to help get him out of it. Though at first he seems oblivious of it,...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionPerhaps the best introduction to the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer is reading the autobiographical stories that appear in the collection called In My Father's Court. There one sees the effect of characters and events...
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From: The Merchant of Venice[(essay date 1993) In the following excerpt, Halio addresses Shakespeare's attitude toward Jews, a source of considerable controversy surrounding the representation of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.] Any approach...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionAlthough many of his stories and novels are written in a strictly realistic mode, some of Bernard Malamud's most compelling fiction combines realism and fantasy in ways that recall the tradition of Yiddish writers and...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date 1974) In the following review, Halio praises The Fifth Head of Cerberus as a work wherein science fantasy seems secondary as Wolfe writes about aspects of life handled by realist writers. Halio discusses how...
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From: "A Certain Text": Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others in Honor of Thomas Clayton[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Halio explains that the prologue to The Taming of the Shrew provides insight for a proper interpretation of the work as a whole.] When in his otherwise excellent television...