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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5866)William Shakespeare HAMLET Barbican, until October 31 No gravediggers. No funeral for Ophelia. No voyage to England. At the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on December 18,1772, David Garrick did "the most imprudent...
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From:Comparative Drama (Vol. 48, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedQueen of the Goths, Empress of Rome, Machiavellian and monstrous monarch: what literary, historical, or contemporary counterparts lurk behind Shakespeare's Tamora in Titus Andronicus? Critics have associated Tamora with...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 60, Issue 1)In this essay, with Macbeth as my case in point, I will describe and examine something about the texts of Shakespeare that scholars, editors, and teachers already know. What we know and take for granted is that the text...
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From:Early Modern Literary Studies (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTwelfth Night, presented by the St. Petersburg Little Theatre, St. Petersburg, Florida, June 12-28, 2009 Directed by John Conlon and musically directed by Latoya McCormick. Choreographed by Margaret Musmon. Lighting...
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From:Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 34) Peer-ReviewedIs THERE CHARACTER after theory? Definitely--and also "before" and "during" theory. While the topic of this forum might suggest that we operate now from a place "post-theory," there can be no properly chronological...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 54, Issue 2-3)There is nothing like holding an original Folio or Quarto in your hands, gloved though your hands will be in these careful days. It's not just the tactile stimulus of the book, or the smell of old paper, because no...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 53, Issue 1)Philip D. Collington offers a new connection between Montaigne and Shakespeare. Applying the lessons of Montaigne's "Of Solitarinesse" to a reading of King Lear, Collington concludes that while Lear engages in a...
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From:Comparative Drama (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWith the publication of three new editions in the past five years, The Raign of King Edward the Third has reemerged as a prominent candidate for inclusion in the Shakespeare canon. (1) Nonetheless, the play still...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 53, Issue 3)Like Jean Howard, Donald Hendrick likes mathematical language. He also likes the clinical terms of psychology, and to apply the "discursive" modes of both disciplines to Shakespeare. The first section of his article on...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe 'worm of conscience' reference in William Shakespeare's 'Richard III' falls within the Christian frame work. Shakespeare's character Queen Margaret's theology has been called sub-Christian because she wishes for...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedShakespeare's King Richard likened his situation to the biblical prophet Elisha's in 'Richard II.' Facing a powerful and hostile force under Bolingbroke, he tries to reveal to Aumerle the truth behind the physical...
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From:Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (Vol. 26) Peer-ReviewedI "OTHELLO," declares a modern study, "remains a textual mystery." (1) Although the essay is a useful review of existing scholarly knowledge on the complicated publication history of the play, its characterization of...
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From:Shakespeare in Southern Africa (Vol. 25) Peer-ReviewedThis conference set out to explore the inter-disciplinary potential of Shakespeare studies by drawing theatre practitioners and performance critics into closer dialogue with academic Shakespeareans. The three-day event,...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 60, Issue 2)Those who have seen the gripping documentary Shakespeare Behind Bars will be most interested in Hal Cobb's "The Pursuit of Character." Shakespeare Behind Bars explores the rehearsal and performance of The Tempest by a...
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This paper explores the controversy as to whether The Merry Wives of Windsor is a celebration of royal and aristocratic power and of an imagined national community, or a suburban comedy whose viewpoint is...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 58, Issue 3)Patricia Novillo-Corvalan provides a careful and sweeping analysis of how Borges's views on Shakespeare were influenced by the comments of Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses. Borges is famously credited with...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHumanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep. (4.2.49-50) IN 1903, Bertrand Russell captured the essence of the modern secular worldview in a well-known passage in "A Free Man's Worship": This...
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From:The Upstart Crow (Vol. 31)A Shakespearean icon might include any form of a character, scene, idea, or moment as it circulates and is reproduced in a visual mode: a particular performance frozen in memory (Sarah Bernhardt as the cross-dressed...
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From:The Upstart Crow (Vol. 29)Early modern theories of musical affection tended to describe it as a remote capacity for .touch: music was a refined substance or subtle vibration that penetrated the senses and moved directly to affect the animal...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 66, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedShakespeare was a playwright and a poet. But he was not a preacher, though he is often mistaken for one. His long-time position as the writer whose words fall second only to the Bible in English letters has led to a...