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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:Criticism (Vol. 54, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhy does Shakespeare's Bottom paraphrase Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians (2:9) when he awakens from his dream: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his...
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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:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 48, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFor nineteenth-century readers Shakespeare's Sonnets promised much. The efforts of the previous century's scholars had seen Shakespeare's texts become the focus of a project seeking to refine and purify English into a...
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIt seems to be a kind of respect due to the memory of excellent men, especially of those whom their wit and learning have made famous, to deliver some account of themselves, as well as their works, to Posterity. For...
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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 Newsletter (Vol. 51, Issue 3)This paper is concerned with versions of the enigmatic "Enter X to Y" or simply "to Y." In the Stage Plots "to them" or variants means that when the players enter, others are already onstage; those entering do not...
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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 Newsletter (Vol. 52, Issue 1)Establishing a text for Henry IV, Part Two is difficult to do. Its editorial cruxes are among the most notorious in the canon. There are two (arguably three) different versions of the play, but for various reasons none...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 52, Issue 3)We note with sadness the passing of our colleague James P. Lusardi, for twenty years the co-editor of Shakespeare Bulletin, the outstanding journal in the field for performance criticism. Jim has always been a good...
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From:Shakespeare in Southern Africa (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedSteven Mufson has contended that the strikes, demonstrations, and the stamping of feet that characterized the years of Black rebellion to apartheid "were only surface signs of a more profound and long-lasting change in...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 52, Issue 2)Being Edward Pudsey Since it first came to light in 1888, the notebook of Edward Pudsey (1573-1613) has been known mainly because it contains some of the earliest surviving extracts from Shakespeare's plays. But...
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From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureSchlegel, August Wilhelm von (b. Sept. 8, 1767, Hannover, Hanover [Germany]--d. May 12, 1845, Bonn) German scholar and critic, one of the most influential disseminators of the ideas of the German Romantic movement...
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From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureDyce, Alexander (b. June 30, 1798, Edinburgh, Scot.--d. May 15, 1869, London, Eng.) Scottish editor whose works contributed to the growing interest in William Shakespeare and his contemporaries during the 19th...
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From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureBaudissin, Wolf Heinrich (Friedrich Karl), Count (Graf) von (b. Jan. 30, 1789, Copenhagen, Den.--d. April 4, 1878, Dresden, Ger.) Man of letters who with Ludwig Tieck's daughter Dorothea was responsible for many...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe audience's correct response to the incestuous lovers in John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore' has been a problem for critics who cannot decide whether the audience should sympathize with them or not. However, the...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWilliam Shakespeare's works span the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras of the Renaissance and incorporated the characteristics of each. Thus, his later plays such as the tragedies 'King Lear' and 'Anthony and Cleopatra' deal...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAngela Carter adopts the form of a Shakespearean comedy in her final novel, 'Wise Children.' The story, which is narrated by seventy-five year old Dora, is comparable to William Shakespeare's comedies because it...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe most recent edition of the play 'Sir Thomas More' hypothesizes that it was written by Anthony Munday not in its entirety as previously advanced but in collaboration with two other men. It has even been argued that...