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Title:
Ångestgudinnan [Anxiety, The Goddess]
Author:
Torvalds, Sofia.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2020
Publication Information:
Riga: Schildts & Söderströms, 2020. 193 pp.
Annotation:

Explores author's personal experience grappling with anxiety. Discusses her anxiety in relation to literary works, including plays by Shakespeare. Documents her understandings of Much Ado About Nothing and Julius Caesar in light of experience with anxiety.

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Title:
Shakespeare: guida ad Otello [Shakespeare: Guide to Othello]
Author:
Petrina, Alessandra.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Rome: Carocci Editore, 2022. 123 pp.
Annotation:

Introduces readers to Othello through accessible guide. Provides methods for approaching play, including literary and historical analysis, studying themes and characters, and evaluating play's adaptations and afterlives.

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Title:
Shakespeare: guida a Macbeth [Shakespeare: Guide to Macbeth]
Author:
Tosi, Laura.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2021
Publication Information:
Rome: Carocci Editore, 2021. 127 pp.
Annotation:

Investigates Shakespeare's dramatization of tragic conscience of Macbeth as murderer. Explores power and ambition's universality of in Macbeth, particularly in relation to representations of gender.

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Title:
"Caroline Debt: Shakespeare to Shirley"
Author:
Kerrigan, John.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2020
Publication Information:
Kolb, Early Modern Debts: 1550-1700, 271–302.
Annotation:

Discusses plays performed during reign of Charles I which focus on debt, fidelty and chance. Begins with study of court performance of Cymbeline in 1634, then proceeds to consider play's influence on plays by Philip Massinger and James Shirley. Focuses on trope of test of female chastify and its evolution in changing contexts of early modern economy. English summary, online.

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Title:
"Hypallactic Debt Management: The Rhetoric of Exchange in Wyatt and Shakespeare"
Author:
Zurcher, Andrew.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2020
Annotation:

Explores importance of rhetorical figure of hypallage ("exchange") to various forms of debt in early modern England. Explores exchanges of persons and things in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 87, then "miraculous reversals of debt" in Cymbeline and Winter’s Tale. English summary, online.

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Title:
"Debt Culture in Shakespeare's Time"
Author:
Orlin, Lena Cowen.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2020
Publication Information:
Kolb, Early Modern Debts: 1550-1700, 83–102.
Annotation:

Explores role of debt in Shakespeare's work. Includes case study of Shakespeare family's debt as pertaining to history of Shakespeare as artist. English summary, online.

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Title:
"Debt and Doorways in Renaissance Comedy"
Author:
Hutson, Lorna.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2020
Publication Information:
Kolb, Early Modern Debts: 1550-1700, 21–52.
Annotation:

Links debts with doorways to argue for formal quality of early modern comedy's preoccupation with debt plots; connects imaginative power of off-stage space behind door with uncertainty of time and its connections to debt. Focuses on role of debt in Comedy of Errors and The Rape of Lucrece. English summary, online.

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