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Shakespeare on Stage
American Shakespeare Center, The Duchess of Malfi. To Jun. 15, 2013.
Folger Shakespeare Library, Twelfth Night. To Jun. 9, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, Love's Labour's Lost. To Jun. 15, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, Return to the Forbidden Planet. To Dec. 1, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, Twelfth Night. To Jun. 16, 2013.

The background of ideas

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  3. Buonarroti, Michelangelo. The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation. Saslow, James M ed. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1991.
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  6. Corbin, Peter, and Douglas Sedge. "Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays." 1986.
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  16. Hill, Christopher. A Nation of Change and Novelty: Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth Century England. New York: Routledge, 1991.
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  20. Langmuir, Gavin I. History, Religion, and Antisemitism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
  21. Levine, Nina S. Women's Matters: Politics, Gender, and Nation in Shakespeare's Early History Plays. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998.
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  27. Nelson, John Charles. Renaissance Theory of Love: The Context of Giordano's "Eroici Fuori". New York: Columbia University Press, 1958.
  28. Rowland, Beryl. Animals with Human Faces. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973.
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  32. Shuger, Debora K. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
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  34. Spencer, Theodore. Shakespeare and the Nature of Man. New York: Macmillan, 1942.
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  39. Thompson, John Lee. John Calvin and the Daughters of Sarah: Women in Regular and Exceptional Roles in the Exegesis of Calvin, His Predecessors, and His Contemporaries. Geneve, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 1992.
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