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Published: 14 June 2006
... Flint Kate William Shakespeare male-dominated culture literary culture reading Shakespeare demythologisation If [the] number 18 [bus] still runs, let us take it, when the owling time is at hand, down to London Bridge. There is a curious smell in this part of the world, of hops, it may...
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Published: 30 June 2020
... George Bernard Twelfth Night Adorno Theodor Bacon Sir Francis enlightenment Horkheimer Max Knight G Wilson Mack Peter An Acte for the punishment of Vacabondes and for Releif of the Poore & Impotent Donaldson Ian William Shakespeare Michel de Montaigne skepticism selfhood essays sources...
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Afterword: Theatre and Speculation
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William N. West
Published: 01 July 2019
... Sebastian tragedy Viola Twelfth Night 1. Stanley Cavell 2. contingency 3. Emmanuel Levinas 4. immediacy 5. Other 6. mirrors 7. Paul 8. phenomenology 9. William Shakespeare 10. theater To come face to face is, literally, to confront another. To think of coming upon another face to face...
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Theatrical, Periodical, Authorial: Frances Brooke’s Old Maid (1755–1756)
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Manushag N. Powell
Published: 01 February 2018
... translation Beloe William Rev celebrity friendship Johnson Samuel social mobility Burney Frances London Evening Post The 1727–97 Frances Brooke Mary Ann Yates Charlotte Lennox David Garrick William Shakespeare theatre theatrical criticism To Greece no more the tuneful maids belong, Nor the high...
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Published online: 17 September 2015
Published in print: 31 August 2014
...This book provides a new interpretation of William Shakespeare's plays as a unified statement of early modern political theory. It demonstrates that Shakespeare's plays provide an astonishingly powerful reckoning with the tradition of Western political thought, one whose depth and scope places...
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Dangerous Fellowship: Universal Faith and its Bodily Limits in The Comedy of Errors and Othello
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Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Published: 19 August 2010
...This chapter discusses how William Shakespeare's Othello and Comedy of Errors present a prehistory for the tensions between bodily distinction and spiritual faith. It argues that these tensions are presented in later plays by the clear threat of Islamic conversion...
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Introduction
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Alex Schulman
Published: 31 August 2014
...This book asserts that William Shakespeare's plays and poems possess elements of politics and political philosophy, or, more specifically, the rise of modern secular nationalism . Such a phrase can be defined as the decline in the political legitimacy of warrior and priestly castes...
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Published: 01 August 2015
...This chapter explores how William Shakespeare’s literary legacy influences Katherine Mansfield’s personal relationships and professional writing practices, and ultimately frames her own legacy. Examining Mansfield’s notebooks and correspondence, Houlahan reveals that Mansfield and John Middleton...
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Sovereign Outlaws: Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy
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Conor McCarthy
Published: 27 March 2020
... Greenblatt Stephen Kerrigan John O’Neill Hugh interrogation Iran Panopticon spy torture Campion Edmund Cottam John Cottam Thomas Kyd Thomas Marlowe Christopher Munday Anthony Robin Hood William Shakespeare Ernst Kantorowicz Sovereign immunity Richard II Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2...
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Caledonianising Macbeth, or, How Scottish is ‘The Scottish Play’?
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Colin McArthur and Jonathan Murray
Published: 12 January 2024
... of Henry VIII The UK 1933 Seventh Seal The Sweden 1957 Vikings The USA 1958 Virgin Spring The Sweden 1960 Connery Sean Rob Roy USA 1996 Wallace Clan Trust Macbeth William Shakespeare Shakespeare criticism Shakespeare and theatre Shakespeare and cinema Discursive construction of Scotland Orson...
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Theoretical Ghosts and Spectres
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James Gilchrist Stewart
Published: 30 June 2024
... Unger R Jacques Derrida Francis Fukuyama A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Hamlet William Shakespeare haunting ghosts Oh He gives to us his joy , That our grief He may destroy : Till our grief is fled an gone He doth sit by us and moan ...
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Published: 15 September 2020
... John James I king of England King Lear Shakespeare knowledge Measure for Measure Shakespeare Montaigne Michel de Montaigne’s essays O’Brien John pessimism rhetoric self Shakespeare William Shakespeare’s plays Tempest The Shakespeare Capell Edward Cotgrave Randall Dictionarie...
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Apoetic Life: Perec, Poetry, Pneumatology
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Justin Clemens
Published: 01 April 2017
... Julia Tel Quel collective ‘Towards a Semiology of Paragrams’ Kristeva Motte Warren combinatorics Milner Jean Claude nostalgia Georges Perec Raymond Queneau William Shakespeare contemporary poetry Oulipo compositional constraint potential literature … To be worst, The lowest and most...
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Brave New Worlds
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Alex Schulman
Published: 31 August 2014
... contemporary critical theory social contract John Locke Thomas Hobbes Jean Jacques Rousseau William Shakespeare Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge … (Tmp. II, i, 249–50) The unmasking of erstwhile confessor–Duke as political sovereign that ends...
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The Virtue of Humour in King Lear
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Kent Lehnhof
Published: 14 September 2023
... Curran Kevin William Shakespeare King Lear Fool humour wit fooling laughter ethics Emmanuel Levinas As the essays in this volume by Carolyn Sale and Katie Adkison clearly demonstrate, King Lear is centrally concerned with virtue. France makes it a priority when choosing Cordelia...
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Points
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George Oppitz-Trotman
Published: 01 July 2019
... performance civility mimesis William Shakespeare art judgement The way to freedom is opened with a scalpel. Seneca, Epistle 70 Little things are not to be despised […] a little pricke of a rapier, may make a deadly wound. Thomas Blague, ‘A sermon preached at the Charterhouse before...
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Published online: 17 September 2020
Published in print: 27 March 2020
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Published online: 17 September 2020
Published in print: 30 April 2020
... traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors—motion, space, and creativity—that shape erotic desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare. Although Lyly and Shakespeare wrote for different types of theatres and only partially-overlapping audiences, both dramatists created characters who...
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Published online: 20 May 2021
Published in print: 15 September 2020