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Gives brief overview of Hans Robert Jauss's reception theory with emphasis on “affective dynamics of reception.” Traces Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473–1530) reputation and attends to Shakespeare’s representation of Wolsey in Henry VIII. English summary, 317.
Explores trends authors' exploitation of human mind's creative capacities for their aesthetic goals. Focuses on effect of emotion represented in Love’s Labor’s Lost, IV, 3. English summary, 261.
Explores emotions in relation to formation of sex and gender. Focuses on representations of masculinity and femininity and their associated emotional traits in Twelfth Night. English summary, 214.
Surveys Aristotle, Hegel, and Nietzsche's examinations of emotion in tragedy. Illustrates “tragic emotion” with case study of King Lear and “redemptive function of tears” in Cymbeline. English summary, 155.
Considers readers' "emotional engagements with fictional characters using embodied cognitive theory." Discusses audience's character identification and attachment from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. English summary, 61.
Italian-language biographical novel of William Shakespeare, set in 1585. Presents Shakespeare as young popular playwright who attracts negative attention of Lord Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth I's head spy, who hires Shakespeare to be informant to spy on theatre and tavern life.
Explores meaning of friendship through character studies. Describes Horatio’s role in Hamlet as philosopher and friend of Prince Hamlet; describes relationship between Rosalind and Celia in As You Like it, noting significance of cross-dressing within relationship.
Spanish-language translation of Midsummer Night's Dream and Taming of the Shrew. Foreword by Francesc Ll. Cardona.
Examines power conveyed by clothing and assumed identities in As You Like It. Investigates how Rosalind uses such power to "remark on socially-accepted male and female behavior, revealing the foolish wooing habits of the men in the process."
Includes one essay on Shakespeare.