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Timon Of Athens: The Iconography Of False Friendship, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The realization that iconographic tableaux appear at central points in the drama of Shakespeare no longer seems to involve a radical critical perspective. Thus a recent study is able to show convincingly that the playwright presented audiences with a Hamlet who upon his first appearance on stage illustrated what the Renaissance would certainly have recognized as the melancholic contemplative personality. As I have noted in a previous article, the hero of Macbeth when he sees the bloody dagger before him is in fact perceiving the image which most clearly denotes tragedy itself; in the emblem books, the dagger is indeed …

Staging The York Creation, And Fall Of Lucifer, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The Creation, and Fall of Lucifer by the York Realist was intended to provide a spectacular opening for the Corpus Christi cycle, of which the city of York felt very proud in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Since the York Realist appears to have been particularly sensitive to the conditions of production, this opening play provides a useful focus for attention to the staging used in the York cycle. The internal evidence of the Realist's Creation, and Fall of Lucifer demonstrates that he was not writing a mere literary exercise, but kept in mind the specifics of stage production.

The Early Drama, Art, And Music Project: Publications 1977-2002, Timothy Christiansen, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

A bibliography of publications of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project at Western Michigan University, originally compiled by Timothy Christiansen and updated in 2002 by Clifford Davidson. This digital reprint was created in 2014 for ScholarWorks at WMU, with an addendum, an update, and a few corrections to the formatting of the 2002 publication.

Rev. Of Clayton G. Mackenzie, Deadly Experiments: A Study Of Icons And Emblems Of Mortality In Christopher Marlowe’S Plays, Clifford Davidson

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Rev. Of Lynn Forest-Hill, Transgressive Language In Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rev. Of Lois A. Cuddy, T. S. Eliot And The Poetics Of Evolution, Clifford Davidson

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The History Of King Lear And The Problem Of Belief, Clifford Davidson

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The Function Of Rhetoric, Marlowe’S Tamburlaine, And ‘Reciprocal Illumination’, Audrey Davidson, Clifford Davidson

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The Young Milton, Orpheus, And Poetry, Clifford Davidson

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The Masque Within The Tempest, Clifford Davidson

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Organic Unity And Shakespearian Tragedy, Clifford Davidson

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The Sins Of The Flesh In The Fourteenth-Century Middle English ‘Land Of Cokaygne’, Clifford Davidson

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The Idol Of Isis Church, Clifford Davidson

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The Dialectic Of Temptation, Clifford Davidson

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Doctor Faustus Of Wittenberg, Clifford Davidson

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