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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:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 216)In the Middle Ages," said a candidate for a position in medieval literature at my college, "beauty was considered sinful." Someone should have told Dante, who wrote that beauty is the prime...
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From:The Oxfordian (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedUniquely in the annals of English literature, William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon was credited during his lifetime, and for many years afterwards, with writing two large and distinct sets of literary works. The...
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From:Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (Vol. 43, Issue 3)The 2007 Third Annual Joint Shakespeare Fellowship/ Shakespeare-Oxford Society Conference will be held October 4-7, 2007 in Carmel, California. Attendees will have the opportunity to view two Shakespeare productions by...
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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:The Oxfordian (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedTo this well-painted piece is Lucrece come, To find a face where all distress is stell'd. Many she sees where cares have carved some, But none where all distress and dolour dwell'd Till she despairing Hecuba beheld, ......
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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: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:Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (Vol. 44, Issue 1)The names of 18 pairs of characters are hidden in the 36 words or phrases in the following table, one member in the first column of the table and the other one in the fourth column (although the pairs do not necessarily...
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From:The AnaChronisTPeer-ReviewedSince its first performance in or around 1 606, Shakespeare's Macbeth has been the target of a vast number of theatrical and cinematographic reproductions. This paper claims that, rather than giving its direct...
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From:The Hedgehog Review (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe are accustomed to thinking of Shakespeare's Prospero as the guileless victim of his evil brother Antonio's plotting. Though born the rightful Duke of Milan, Prospero preferred the purity of his books to the tangle of...
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From:Early Modern Literary Studies (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Rumbling Belly Politic: Metaphorical Location and Metaphorical Government in Coriolanus Nate Eastman Lehigh University nze2@lehigh.edu Nate Eastman. "The Rumbling Belly Politic: Metaphorical Location and...
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From:Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (Vol. 38, Issue 3)An Article in The London Review of Books, August 8, 2002, by Stephen Orgel, "Mr. Who He?" reviews the latest compilation of Shakespeare's verse: Complete Sonnets and Poems of William Shakespeare by Colin Burrow. [Oxford...
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From:Comparative DramaPeer-ReviewedOne of the most vexed terms in literary criticism is tragedy. As critics we often denounce the popular use of the term when the death of the family pet is called a "terrible tragedy" yet we would be hard put to give a...
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From:Comparative Drama (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedStudies examining the relationship between Shakespeare's and Marlowe's plays often discuss Judaism in The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta. Most recently, Michelle Ephraim's Reading the Jewish Woman on the...
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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:Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (Vol. 46, Issue 1)John Thomas Looney, who first attributed the authorship of the "Shakespearean" plays and the sonnets to Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was a master at an elementary school in Low Fell, Gateshead, County...
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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:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhen Paulina boldly demands that he acknowledge the newborn Perdita as his child, Leontes vilifies her as both shrew and witch who shames her husband and threatens social order. Antigonus is said to be "woman-tir'd" or...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSHAKESPEARE'S interest in Santiago de Compostela, Spain's patron saint, is manifest in three plays of distinct genre: the comedy All's Well that Ends Well, the tragedy Othello, and the romance Cymbeline. Each of these...