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Title:
"Manuel Tamayo y Baus's Un drama nuevo (1867) and the Reception of Hamlet in 19th-Century Spain"
Author:
Sumillera, Rocío G..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 10, no. 1 (2013): 71–80.
Annotation:

"Discusses how Tamayo y Baus appropriates and refashions in Un drama nuevo the figures of Shakespeare and Yorick, as well as different elements of a number of other tragedies by Shakespeare (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello), in order to render homage to Shakespearean drama by means of a play that, even if set at the beginning of 17th-century England, particularly addresses the tastes and concerns of 19th-century Spanish audiences." Explores the initial reception of Un drama nuevo and its role in increasing interest in Hamlet in the Spanish-speaking world. English and Slovenian summaries, 71.

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Title:
"Reported Speech in The Winter's Tale"
Author:
Baxter, John.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 36, no. 3 (2013): 127–51.
Annotation:

Explores how reported speech--which is a speech act and which, in Shakespeare's plays, "is nearly always loaded, alive with implication, motive, or mystery"--in Winter's Tale "can serve as an index to the peculiar nature and complexity of [an] action." French summary, 127.

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Title:
"Shakespeare und der historische Roman: Parallelen, Transformationen, Kontraste in der Henriade und bei Edith Pargeter, Denise Giardina, Robert Nye"
Author:
Klein, Holger.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 38, no. 3 (2013): 129–59.
Annotation:

Edith Pargeter's A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury, Denise Giardina's Good King Harry, and Robert Nye's Falstaff to "study the transformation of plays into novels . . . and the relationship between historical drama, historical fiction, and the corresponding events in history. English summary, 129.

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Title:
"Shakespeare's Flop: John Waterson and The Two Noble Kinsmen"
Author:
Lesser, Zachary.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Considers the printing of the 1634 edition of Two Noble Kinsmen and the career of John Waterson, asserting that the play's failure to sell in print and Waterson's failed attempt to sell plays in general resulted from his shop's reputation as being academic.

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Title:
"Shylock and Joachim Gaunse: And a Real Jew"
Author:
Walton, Michael T..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Quidditas 34 (2013): 182–89.
Annotation:

Speculates on how Shakespeare's audience may have responded to Shylock in Merchant of Venice through the historical account of Joachim Gaunse, a Jewish man who defended the Jewish rejection of Jesus in 1589. English summary, 182.

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Title:
"A Scenography Workshop on Campus in Hyderabad: Romeo, Juliet and the Security Guard"
Author:
Collins, Jane.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Studies in Theatre & Performance 33, no. 3 (2013): 383–96.
Annotation:

"Discusses a workshop conducted with postgraduate students at the University of Hyderabad in the central state of Andhra Pradesh, India, that developed into a production: Romeo, Juliet and the Security Guard." Describes how the workshop investigated the spatial theories of Doreen Massey and "isolates three moments from the project to illuminate Massey's ideas in relation to live performance and to demonstrate how the workshop evolved into a socially engaged site-based production." English summary, 383.

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Title:
"A Lover's Complaint and the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic"
Author:
Jackson, MacDonald.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Reviews the case made by Ward E. Y. Elliot and Robert J. Valenza, directors of the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic, that A Lover's Complaint should not be attributed to Shakespeare. Argues that the poem should be included in Shakespeare's canon.

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Title:
"Giving and Serving in Timon of Athens"
Author:
McKee, Laura.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Argues that hierarchical relationships in which servitude is considered a kind of gift that does not necessarily deserve reward is present in the early modern period and is addressed in Timon of Athens. Explores characters in the play who hold subordinate positions yet challenge the notion that their service does not merit reward.

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