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• Historical (pre-1935) (4)

• "This falles out better, then I could deuise": Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/SURROGAT%20PLAYWRIT.txt

  Steele, Kenneth B. "'This falles out better, then I could deuise': Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy." University of Toronto (1990). Steele looks at the development of the figure in each of Shakespeare's plays who either frames the entire play as an explicit artifact, directs and produces a contained performance, stages a theatrical practical joke, or orchestrates the events of the entire playworld toward a comic denouement and how this figure culminates inA Midsummer Night's Dream's omnipotent dramaturge Oberon:

  keywords: comedy, dream, metadrama, MND, midsummer, night's, playwrights, oberon

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• 12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-1/sohmjuli.html

  Sohmer, Steve. "12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe."Early Modern Literary Studies3.1 (May 1997): 1.1-46. Sohmer confronts two questions in his article: what was the date of the debut of Shakespeare's original playhouse and which play was chosen for the Globe's debut:

  keywords: globe, date, opening

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• A Text of Shreds and Patches: Shakespeare and Popular Culture

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1997.html

  Castaldo, Annalisa. "A Text of Shreds and Patches: Shakespeare and Popular Culture."West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP)20 (1997). Castaldo explores the effects of the integration of Shakespeare's work into popular culture:

  keywords: popular, culture, renaissance, papers, essays

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• An Invitation to the Pleasure of Textual/Sexual Di(Per)versity

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/URKOWITZ%20RJ-MWW.txt

  Urkowitz, Steven. "'Do me the kindnes to looke vpon this' and 'Heere, read, read': An Invitation to the Pleasures of Textual/Sexual Di(Per)versity." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Urkowitz identifies radically different conceptions of several scenes between the quarto and folio versions ofRomeo and JulietandThe Merry Wives of Windsorof which editors of the modern texts rarely make readers aware:

  keywords: folio, merry wives of windsor, quarto, Rom, romeo and juliet, Wiv

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Base Trade: Theater as Prostitution

  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/v060/60.4lenz.html

  Lenz, Joseph. "Base Trade: Theater As Prostitution."Early Literary History60.4 (1993): 833-855. Lenz explores the use of prostitution as a metaphor for the theatrical experience during Shakespeare's time:

  keywords: theater, prostitution

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Heavy Seneca: His Influence on Shakespeare's Tragedies

  http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/arkins.htm

  Arkins, Brian. "Heavy Seneca: His Influence on Shakespeare's Tragedies."Classics Ireland2 (1995): 1-16. Arkins explores the influence of the Elizabethan author Heavy Seneca on Shakespeare's tragedies:

  keywords: classics, elizabethan, influences, tragedy

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Looking with Ears, Hearing with Eyes: Shakepeare and the Ear of the Early Modern

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/robsears.htm

  Robson, Mark. "Looking with ears, hearing with eyes: Shakespeare and the ear of the Early Modern."Early Modern Literary Studies7.1/Special Issue 8 (May, 2001): 10.1-23. Robson looks at the ear in terms of Early Modern debates on the body, orality and aurality, and reading and writing:

  keywords: early, modern, body, ear, orality, aurality, reading, writing

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• M. M. Mahood,Shakespeare's Wordplay--Some Reappraisals

  http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/intmmm61.htm

  Leimberg, Inge. "M.M. Mahood,Shakespeare's Wordplay--Some Reappraisals Introducing the Subject."Connotations, 6.1 (1996-1997): 1-2. A reappraisal of Mahood's 1968 foundational bookShakespeare's Wordplay:

  keywords: connotations, wordplay

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Music at the New Globe

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/schumusi.htm

  Schutz, Chantal. "Music at the New Globe."Early Modern Literary Studies7.1 (May, 2001): 4.1-36. Schutz reviews the style and use of music in recent productions of Shakespeare's works at the Globe:

  keywords: performance, globe, music

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Numme Feete: Meter in Early Modern England

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/tatefeet.htm

  Tate, Joseph. "Numme Feete: Meter in Early Modern England."Early Modern Literary Studies7.1/Special Issue 8 (May, 2001): 3.1-31. Tate looks at the experience of meter in the Early Modern Period including descriptions of audience responses to meter as well as writers' conceptions of it:

  keywords: early, modern, england, meter

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Other Accents: Some Problems with Identifying Elizabethan Pronunciation

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/gurrothe.htm

  Gurr, Andrew. "Other Accents: Some Problems in Identifying Elizabethan Pronunciation."Early Modern Literary Studies7.1/Special Issue 8 (May, 2001): 5.1-4. Gurr discusses the foremost books on Elizabethan pronunciation, their conclusion that it is impossible to identify with any certainty what Elizabethan English sounded like, then provides two famous Shakespearean speeches transcribed with what he insists is a Elizabethan accent:

  keywords: elizabethan, pronunciation

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Remembering Death: Deathbed Scenes in Shakespeare's Plays and the Visual Tradition

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/DEATHBED%20SCENES.txt

  Evett, David. "Remembering Death: Deathbed Scenes in Shakespeare's Plays and the Visual Tradition." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies, (1994). Evett discusses Shakespeare's deathbed scenes (predominantly from his history plays) in terms of early modern attitudes toward and visual representations of death (and just a dash of Freud):

  keywords: death, scenes, history plays, freud, visual

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Romancing the Bard

  http://www.colby.edu/personal/leosborn/contents.html

  Osborne, Laurie. "Romancing the Bard." Osborne explores the use of Shakespeare and Shakespearean references in that most vilified form of popular culture, the romance novel:

  keywords: bard, culture, women, romance, appropriation

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Shakespeare and the Politics of Community

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/wardshak.html

  Ward, Ian. "Shakespeare and the Politics of Community."Early Modern Literary Studies4.3 (January 1999): 2.1-45. Ward investigates the idea of narrative community and suggests its import for contemporary legal and political theory:

  keywords: community, politics, law, identity

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Shakespeare and the Uses of Power

  http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20073

  Greenblatt, Stephen. "Shakespeare and the Uses of Power."The New York Review of Books.(12 April 2007): 54.6. Greenblatt explores morality, ethics and violence in Shakespeare's power hungry leaders, such as Macbeth, Claudius, Richard III, and Julius Caesar. "In Shakespeare no character with a clear moral vision has a will to power and, conversely, no character with a strong desire to rule over others has an ethically adequate object."

  keywords: Greenblatt, Clinton, power, macbeth, morality, kingship

  valid as of 2007-04-02

• Shakespeare's Pacifism

  http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Publications/pacifism.html

  Marx, Steven. "Shakespeare's Pacifism."Renaissance Quarterly45.1 (1992): 49-95. Marx discusses the peaceful and militarist elements of Shakespeare's drama:

  keywords: renaissance, militant, pacifist, war

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Teaching the Late Plays as Family Romance

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/FAMILY%20ROMANCE.txt

  Waller, Gary. "Teaching the Late Plays as Family Romance." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Waller examines the idea of family inThe Winter's Taleusing Freudian theory:

  keywords: archive, teaching, freud, family, winter's tale

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• The Magic of M. M. Mahood'sShakespeare's Wordplay

  http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/laird61.htm

  Laird, David. "The Magic of M. M. Mahood'sShakespeare's Wordplay."Connotations6.1 (1996-1997). Laird uses Manhood's book as a jumping off point to explore the methods by which Shakespeare's word usage has been traditionally studied:

  keywords: connotations, wordplay

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• The Role of the Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/ROLE%20CLOWN.txt

  Culwell, Lori, M. "The Role of the Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Culwell takes a historical look at the clown in the early modern theater:

  keywords: theatre, clown, historical

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s AFuneral Elegyand the Donnean Moment

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/summers.htm

  Summers, Claude J. "W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s AFuneral Elegyand the Donnean Moment."Early Modern Literary Studies. Special Issue 7 (May, 2001): 5.1-22. Summers compares and contrasts the funeral elegies of Shakespeare and Donne:

  keywords: death, funeral, donne

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• What is the English History Play and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?

  http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v2no2/longstaf.htm

  Longstaffe, Steve. "What is the English History Play and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It?"Renaissance Forum2.2 (Autumn 1997). Longstaffe explores different approaches toward English History Plays, including Shakespeare's.

  keywords: english, forum, history, renaissance, play

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• William Hazlitt's Theater Criticism

  http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/5D/C.Harris.html

  Harris, Colin. "'Polite Conversation': Performance, Politics, and National Unity in William Hazlitt's Theater Criticism."Prometheus Unplugged, 1996. A discussion of Hazlitt's part in the transformation of theater and Shakespearean criticism by Romantic ideas:

  keywords: criticism, performance, politics, theater, theatre, william

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Writing About Shakespeare

  http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n24/kerm01_.html

  Kermode, Frank. "Writing About Shakespeare."London Review of Books21.24 (1999). Kermode argues that Shakespearean criticism should return to a focus on the words of the text:

  keywords: criticism, new criticism, text

  valid as of 2005-09-07