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Diversifying Shakespeare, Ruben Espinosa Feb 2016

Diversifying Shakespeare, Ruben Espinosa

Ruben Espinosa

Critical race studies in Shakespeare have generated a vital body of scholarship that affords us deeper insight both to racial formations in early modern England and to the way contemporary understandings of racial difference infuse Shakespeare with a culturally relevant currency. However, critical race studies remain relatively marginalized within the broader field of Shakespeare studies. This essay reviews and underscores the scholarship that has kindled an important conversation about race in Shakespeare in an attempt to bring it to the fore, and it draws attention to the promise behind ethnic studies—with particular attention to Latino and Latina identity …

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The Imperial Graft: Horticulture, Hybridity, And The Art Of Mingling Races In Henry V And Cymbeline, Jean E. Feerick Dec 2015

The Imperial Graft: Horticulture, Hybridity, And The Art Of Mingling Races In Henry V And Cymbeline, Jean E. Feerick

Jean Feerick

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 of the most important scholars and writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's Introduction that …

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Shakespeare And Immigration, Ruben Espinosa, David Ruiter Dec 2013

Shakespeare And Immigration, Ruben Espinosa, David Ruiter

Ruben Espinosa

The essays in this collection examine the role of, and reaction to, the issue of immigration in Shakespeare’s drama and culture. This volume not only seeks to interrogate how the massive influx of immigrants during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I influenced perceptions of English identity, and gave rise to anxieties about homeland security in early modern England, but they also aim to understand how our current concerns surrounding immigration shape our perception of the role of the alien in Shakespeare’s work and expand the texts in new and relevant directions to a contemporary audience.

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“Peer Reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald’S Shakespeare Criticism", Karen Gevirtz Dec 2012

“Peer Reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald’S Shakespeare Criticism", Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

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"Can No Prayers Pierce Thee?": Re-Imagining Marian Intercession In The Merchant Of Venice, Ruben Espinosa Dec 2008

"Can No Prayers Pierce Thee?": Re-Imagining Marian Intercession In The Merchant Of Venice, Ruben Espinosa

Ruben Espinosa

In post-Reformation England, anti-Catholic polemics delineated Marian devotion as dangerous, if not idolatrous, and attacked the Virgin Mary’s influence by contending that belief in her intercessory power posed a threat to God’s authority. But the very existence of these polemics indicates that prayer to, and desire for, the Virgin Mary’s intercession endured the Reformation. This article addresses Shakespeare’s attention to this Marian strength in The Merchant of Venice to demonstrate how he draws on Mary’s “lost” intercessory power in his development of Portia as a character reminiscent of the compassionate Virgin Mary of Catholic tradition. By casting Marian intercession in …

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Hamlet's Debt To Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale: A Satire On Robert Cecil?, Rachel Hile Dec 2007

Hamlet's Debt To Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale: A Satire On Robert Cecil?, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

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"A Comely Presentation And The Habit To Admiration Reverend": Ecclesiastical Apparel On The Early Modern English Stage, Robert Lublin Dec 2007

"A Comely Presentation And The Habit To Admiration Reverend": Ecclesiastical Apparel On The Early Modern English Stage, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

Notions of the sacred and the profane took on a particular significance in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century England. This period, chronologically circumscribed on one side by the Protestant Reformation and on the other by the Civil War, was a time of enormous religious change. These changes found articulation in the theatre of the period. Plays such as Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare’s Henry VIII and Middleton’s A Game at Chess make significant use of historically specific understandings of Protestantism and Catholicism. Scholars have noted the religious aspects of these plays before, but what has garnered less critical attention is the manner …

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The Coventry Mysteries And Shakespeare’S Histories, Clifford Davidson Dec 2003

The Coventry Mysteries And Shakespeare’S Histories, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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Feminist History, Theory, And Practice In The Shakespeare Classroom, Robert Lublin Dec 2003

Feminist History, Theory, And Practice In The Shakespeare Classroom, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

No abstract provided.

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The Coventry Mysteries And Shakespeare’S Histories, Clifford Davidson Apr 2001

The Coventry Mysteries And Shakespeare’S Histories, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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The Anxiety Of Power And Shakespeare’S Macbeth, Clifford Davidson Dec 1999

The Anxiety Of Power And Shakespeare’S Macbeth, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rpt. in History, Religion, and Violence, pp. 42-63.

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Paragons Of Virtue With Carnal Appetites: The Women In Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, And Antony And Cleopatra, Michele Gibney Nov 1999

Paragons Of Virtue With Carnal Appetites: The Women In Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, And Antony And Cleopatra, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

A theme that Shakespeare treat several times in his plays is the sexual mistrust of women and their subsequent testing and vindication. It appears that men “perceiving sexuality as power over women, fear its loss through female betrayal,” (VIII, 41). Specifically I am choosing to look at three plays, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, and Antony and Cleopatra, in order to examine the different ways in which females in these plays, Desdemona, Hero, and Cleopatra, cope with the male insecurities that they are confronted with. In so doing, I hope to point out that Shakespeare’s reasoning in continually bringing up …

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The History Of King Lear And The Problem Of Belief, Clifford Davidson Dec 1995

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

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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King Lear And The Crisis Of Belief, Clifford Davidson Dec 1993

King Lear And The Crisis Of Belief, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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The Guild Chapel Wall Paintings At Stratford-Upon-Avon, Clifford Davidson Dec 1987

The Guild Chapel Wall Paintings At Stratford-Upon-Avon, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.

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La Phénoménologie De La Souffrance, Le Drame Médiéval, Et ‘King Lear’, Clifford Davidson Dec 1984

La Phénoménologie De La Souffrance, Le Drame Médiéval, Et ‘King Lear’, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

English text published in On Tradition. Trans. Richard Wyatt.

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The Iconography Of Wisdom And Folly In King Lear, Clifford Davidson Dec 1983

The Iconography Of Wisdom And Folly In King Lear, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Trans. by Győry Szönyi under title “A bölosesség és a bolondság ikonográfíaja a Lear kiralyban,” in Színháztudományi Szemle 19 (Budapest, 1986): 5-24.

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King Lear And The World Upside Down, Clifford Davidson Dec 1981

King Lear And The World Upside Down, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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The Iconography Of Illusion And Truth In The Winter’S Tale, Clifford Davidson Dec 1981

The Iconography Of Illusion And Truth In The Winter’S Tale, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Revised version rpt. in Selected Studies, 108–33.

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Antony And Cleopatra: Circe, Venus, And The Whore Of Babylon, Clifford Davidson Dec 1980

Antony And Cleopatra: Circe, Venus, And The Whore Of Babylon, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Selection rpt. in Shakespeare’s Christian Dimension, ed. Roy Battenhouse (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 497-99; revised version of this paper rpt. in History, Religion, and Violence, pp. 64-94.

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Ariel And The Magic Of Prospero In The Tempest, Clifford Davidson Dec 1977

Ariel And The Magic Of Prospero In The Tempest, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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The Masque Within The Tempest, Clifford Davidson Dec 1975

The Masque Within The Tempest, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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Shakespeare’S Cleopatra: Venus, Circe, And The Whore Of Babylon, Clifford Davidson Dec 1971

Shakespeare’S Cleopatra: Venus, Circe, And The Whore Of Babylon, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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Organic Unity And Shakespearian Tragedy, Clifford Davidson Dec 1970

Organic Unity And Shakespearian Tragedy, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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Falstaff’S Catechism On Honor, Clifford Davidson Dec 1970

Falstaff’S Catechism On Honor, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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The Triumph Of Time, Clifford Davidson Dec 1969

The Triumph Of Time, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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Coriolanus: A Study In Political Dislocation, Clifford Davidson Dec 1967

Coriolanus: A Study In Political Dislocation, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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The Witches’ Dances In Macbeth, Clifford Davidson Dec 1967

The Witches’ Dances In Macbeth, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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A Critical Approach To Coriolanus, Clifford Davidson Dec 1966

A Critical Approach To Coriolanus, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract available.

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