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Women and revenge in Shakespeare
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Marguerite A. Tassi |
Can there be a virtue in vengeance? Can revenge do ethical work? Can revenge be the obligation of women? This wide-ranging literary study looks at Shakespeare’s women and finds bold answers to questi… |
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Shakespeare's great stage of fools
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Robert H. Bell |
"This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare'… |
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Shakespeare's secret schemers
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Richard A. Levine |
"Shakespeare's Secret Schemers establishes the existence of a dramatic device in Shakespeare and indicates its presence in the non-Shakespearean drama of the period as well. The secret scheming of th… |
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Naming thy name
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Elaine Scarry |
"Shakespeare's sonnets are indisputably the most enigmatic and enduring love poems written in English. They also may be the most often argued-over sequence of love poems in any language to date. But … |
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As she likes it
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Penny Gay |
As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique in both Shakespearian and feminist st… |
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Shylock is Shakespeare
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Kenneth Gross |
Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who famously demands a pound of flesh as security for a loan to his antisemitic tormentors, is one of Shakespeare’s most complex and idiosync… |
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Shakespeare's domestic economies
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Natasha Korda |
"Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Win… |
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Shakespeare jungle fever
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Arthur L. Little |
"This book takes Shakespeare's plays as a site for studying the specter of interracial sex - of a "jungle fever" - in early modern England's envisionings of itself. Shakespeare's works here assume th… |
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Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
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Thomas MacFaul |
Renaissance Humanism developed a fantasy of friendship in which men can be absolutely equal to one another, but Shakespeare and other dramatists quickly saw through this rhetoric and developed their … |
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