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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 91, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTHE YEARS 1678 to 1682 witnessed two related, yet seemingly unrelated, events: the monarchy faced its greatest threat since the 1640s, and William Shakespeare's plays underwent the most sustained period of alteration in...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSHAKSPER, founded as an "academic" conference and now in its nineteenth year, is an international "electronic seminar" that enables ongoing discussion of all things Shakespearean. Three extended discussions exemplify...
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From:Early Theatre (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChild actors play a familiar part in the standard performance history of late medieval and early modern England. The practices of the cross-dressing youths in the early modern acting companies have enjoyed close...
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From:Connotations (Vol. 15, Issue 1-3) Peer-ReviewedSince the play's first performance in the early 1590s, Titus Andronicus has enjoyed a rather uneven performance history. William Shakespeare's first revenge tragedy achieved some considerable popularity in the...
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From:Fu Jen Studies: Literature & Linguistics (Vol. 39) Peer-ReviewedHistorically, an interest in Shakespeare's characters came along with an interest in the Bard himself. This interest in his craft of dramatic characterization emerged as a dominant mode of criticism, character...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 54, Issue 4)We live in an age of concern for religion in Shakespearean biography. It was not always so. I don't remember hearing a word about religion in my two-semester undergraduate course in Shakespeare at the University of...
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From:Shakespeare in Southern Africa (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedI cannot quote from memory anything that Guy Butler said or wrote which may help to answer the question "What made Shakespeare laugh?" I do remember that in the course of rehearsals for his production of Marlowe's...
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From:Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 45) Peer-ReviewedWHAT IS A PLAYHOUSE, what is it for, and why might you build one in sixteenth-century London? This Forum explores the limits of what is known about the physical spaces, chronology, repertory, and contexts of Elizabethan...
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From:Shakespeare in Southern Africa (Vol. 30) Peer-ReviewedWhat would happen if Shakespeare were to appear in our contemporary South Africa? How would he respond? And what might he say about how his works have been rendered in the 400 years since his death? These questions were...
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract How do we understand Shakespeare's invitation to laugh in the context of war? Previous critical accounts have offered too simple a view: that laughter undercuts military ideals. Instead, this article draws...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 65, Issue 2)Kay Stanton opens her book, Shakespeare's 'Whores': Erotics, Politics, and Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), with the rather provocative claim that she is "NOT a whore" (1); she then offers the less provocative claim...
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From:Shakespeare Bulletin (Vol. 27, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDuring an eleven day stretch in August 20091 managed to see eight Shakespeare productions (three in Stratford, three at the Globe, one at the Old Vic, and one at the National Theatre) along with a London Fringe version...
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From: Orbis Litterarum[(essay date August 2000) In the following essay, Hartby analyzes Shakespeare's depiction of King John's death and proposes that King John was not killed by a monk, as the play's readers and audiences generally assume,...
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From: The All's Well Story from Boccaccio to Shakespeare[(essay date 1981) In the following essay, Cole considers Shakespeare's audience's knowledge of Boccaccio's Decameron--Shakespeare's source for All's Well That Ends Well--and attempts to determine how this familiarity...
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From: Raritan[(essay date summer 1998) In the following essay, Kermode examines the ways in which various critics have interpreted Shakespeare's language, including his use of sexual innuendo and bawdy.] In his recent book, The...
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From: Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Casey considers the ways both Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale” and The Two Noble Kinsmen “adapt their source materials, paying particular attention to the treatment of Amazons and...
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From: Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth Century[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Maurer provides a detailed study of Rowe’s edits to scene 1 of act 3 of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.] Midway through the text of The Taming of the Shrew, just before...
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From: Shakespeare and Abraham[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Jackson argues that Timon of Athens is a religious play expressing the passion displayed in Genesis 22, which portrays the testing of Abraham by God’s command that he sacrifice...
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From: The Explicator[(essay date winter 1995) In the essay that follows, Blythe analyzes Shakespeare's use of the term "vailing" as it pertains to Adonis's stallion.] The stallion in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis "vails his tail" in the...
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From: Renaissance Studies[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Womersley investigates the topical significance of Shakespeare's complex and ambiguous treatment of the French in Henry V.] 'Messires, what newes from Fraunce, can you tell!...