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The Petition on the Early English Stage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article is about petitioning scenes on the early modern English ...
Scott Oldenburg
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Eroticism in and of the City: The Question of Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Discussions of eroticism usually commence with references to Georges Bataille and his L’Erotisme, whose first English edition was published under the title Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo (1962), thus encouraging analyses in ...
Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Ewa
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Performing Relevance/ Relevant Performances: Shakespeare, Jonson, Hitchcock [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Engages with questions of historicism and presentism in the modern performance of early modern drama, and compares Ben Jonson with Alfred ...
Emma Smith
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Outlandish Love: Marriage and Immigration in City Comedies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article questions the orthodox reading of early English city comedies that such plays exhibit intense national or proto-national fervor, especially articulated in terms of anti-alien sentiment.
Scott Oldenburg
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Ants Oras and the Analysis of Early Modern English Dramatic Verse

open access: yesStudia Metrica et Poetica, 2015
Ants Oras’s contribution to the study of early modern English dramatic verse is of enduring value. In 1956 his article on extra monosyllables in Henry VIII gave much needed support to the view that both this play of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) and
MacDonald P. Jackson
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Reading Shakespeare's Stage Directions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Suggests that we should consider the stage directions in Shakespeare's early texts, particularly the 1623 Folio, as snippets of narrative or free indirect discourse, rather than as clues to or for ...
Emma Smith
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The Playhouse Effect: John Webster, Deixis and Story-Telling in the Theatres of Jacobean London

open access: yesAtlantis
The recent (2014) inauguration of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, a reconstruction of an archetypal Jacobean indoor playhouse, on London’s Southbank, has led students and scholars of early modern theatre once again to focus attention on original playhouse ...
David J. Amelang
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Cultural Poetics in Hamlet: A Critical Reading

open access: yesمجلة اداب ذي قار
This paper proposes to critically address William Shakespeare's  Hamlet as a discourse embedded in cultural configurations and power dynamics. The paper problematizes traditional methods of reading the drama while inviting new avenues of critical ...
Dr. Yassir Mohammed Nasr Ali   +1 more
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Shakespeare’s Pauses, Authorship, and Early Chronology

open access: yesStudia Metrica et Poetica, 2015
This paper explores the implications of Ants Oras’s Pause Patterns in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama: An Experiment in Prosody (Oras 1960) for the chronology and authorship of plays in early modern England.
Douglas Bruster
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