“Admit me Chorus to this history”: Shakespeare’s M.C.s and Choric Commentators—How Medieval, How Early Modern?
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DOI: 10.1007/s11061-018-9576-6
Abstract: My paper discusses the relationship between typical medieval and Tudor prologues and epilogues, in which a moralistic and didactic tone is common, and Shakespeare’s more nuanced early modern use of framing devices. The latter’s approach,… read more here.
Keywords: medieval early; shakespeare; early modern; chorus history ... See more keywords
Shaping Remembrance from Shakespeare to Milton. Patricia Phillippy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv + 270 pp. $110.
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DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2019.489
Abstract: literature and zoological writings relied on what she terms “chimeric description,” a string oftentimes of similes used to depict new living forms. In The Tempest, Shakespeare not only “reveals the combinative imagination at work,” but… read more here.
Keywords: remembrance shakespeare; shaping remembrance; cambridge; shakespeare milton ... See more keywords
Shakespeare / Sex: Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality. Jennifer Drouin, ed. Arden Shakespeare Intersections. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2020. xii + 332 pp. £130.
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DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2023.194
Abstract: of lust, love, and desire, especially inHamlet, Coriolanus, and the late romances. The introduction claims that the book “emphasizes differences, as well as commonalities, between Shakespeare’s treatment of sexual desire and romantic love that builds… read more here.
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Reading Hawaiian Shakespeare: Indigenous Residue Haunting Settler Colonial Racism
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DOI: 10.1017/s0021875819001993
Abstract: As scholarly work on race in Shakespeare studies continues to develop, this article examines how important insights from critical Indigenous studies can help us to refine and enhance this work to more fully see historical… read more here.
Keywords: indigenous residue; shakespeare; hawaiian shakespeare; shakespeare indigenous ... See more keywords
Walking with the words: Student motivation toward reading and studying Shakespeare’s plays through rehearsal room practices
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DOI: 10.1080/08929092.2019.1580649
Abstract: ABSTRACT Educators have long been challenged to support students’ engagement with and comprehension of reading complex texts, including Shakespeare’s plays. Rehearsal room practice (RRP) specifically integrates the rehearsal room processes used by the Royal Shakespeare… read more here.
Keywords: shakespeare; rehearsal room; plays rehearsal; toward reading ... See more keywords
Tragedy, The Greeks, and Us
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DOI: 10.1080/10486801.2020.1703431
Abstract: Placing Lanier’s chapter immediately after Olive’s affords equal critical weight to both TV adaptations and YouTube vlogs, prompting a radical reconsideration of how Shakespeare circulates and is valued across media. Similarly, the other chapters in… read more here.
Keywords: tragedy greeks; shakespeare; book; collection ... See more keywords
Lev Shestov on Shakespeare’s Tragedy Julius Caesar
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DOI: 10.1080/10611967.2017.1375790
Abstract: This article discusses Lev Shestov’s essay that analyzes Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Caesar. The essay was included in Shestov’s book the Apotheosis of Groundlessness (1905), and still remains largely unknown to a broader public. The article… read more here.
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Joe Orton and Shakespeare: collage, class and queerness
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DOI: 10.1080/14682761.2017.1309834
Abstract: Abstract This essay considers Joe Orton's relationship to Shakespeare through the library book covers that he redesigned with his partner Kenneth Halliwell and through his plays. It proposes that Orton and Halliwell's neglected Shakespeare dust… read more here.
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Shakespeare, Architecture, and the Chorographic Imagination
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DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2017.1324515
Abstract: ABSTRACT This essay begins by examining the relative paucity of Early Modern architectural meta-language in Shakespeare’s work. Moving on, it considers a number of instances (including Othello and Julius Caesar) in which Shakespeare steers his… read more here.
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Review of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (directed by Declan Donnellan for Cheek by Jowl) at Theatr Clwyd, Mold, 25 March 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2017.1372512
Abstract: Cheek by Jowl’s world tour of The Winter’s Tale began in America, where the depiction of a paranoid, delusional tyrant given to irrational rages and abuse of his powers may have had contemporary re... read more here.
Keywords: shakespeare; winter tale; cheek jowl;
Apocryphal Thinking, or, Deuterocanonical Shakespeare
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DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2017.1402814
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article takes the contested relationship between the Christian canon and the Apocrypha in early modern England as a model for understanding three recent editions of Shakespeare's works. A Shakespeare Apocrypha found its first… read more here.
Keywords: shakespeare apocryphal; shakespeare works; thinking deuterocanonical; apocryphal thinking ... See more keywords