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Reading Shakespeare's Stage Directions [PDF]
, 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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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Review of 'Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare' by Douglas Bruster [PDF]
, 1995 Review of Douglas Bruster's book, 'Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare' (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 1).
Daalder, Joost
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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Eros and Pilgrimage in Chaucer’s and Shakespeare’s Poetry [PDF]
, 2013 The paper discusses erotic desire and the motif of going on pilgrimage in the opening of Geoffrey Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and in William Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Kowalik, Barbara
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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Shakespeare: Revising and Re-visioning
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2012 This article engages with one of the current critical and bibliographical concerns of Shakespeare studies: the collaborative nature of Shakespeare’s work. Bibliographers have identified other hands in the fabric of Shakespeare’s plays.
Clare, Janet
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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The Shakespeare authorship question – A suitable subject for academia [PDF]
, 2009 This paper considers whether the Shakespeare Authorship Question is a legitimate subject for study in ...
Leahy, WJ
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