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Title:
"Playing Shakespeare at the Globe"
Author:
Dromgoole, Dominic.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Relates directorial decisions for 2012 Globe to Globe Festival production of Henry V, suggesting powerful force of adaptations to bring audiences to Shakespeare's original texts. Reprinted in Joseph Rosenblum, ed., Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Plays (q.v. Shakespeare).

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Title:
"Inserting Me: Some Instances of Predication and the Privation of the Private Self in Shakespeare and Donne"
Author:
Grossman, Marshall.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Builds a context for analyzing "Will" in Sonnet 135 by discussing how Shakespeare and John Donne "share a profoundly linguistic discovery: the realization that the self can be possessed and confirmed only through and as acts of predication in which the immediacy of the self is sacrificed to the hegemony of its signifiers." Demonstrates this principle with readings from Hamlet. David Lee Miller's "Improper Nouns: A Response to Marshall Grossman" (141-47) focuses on Donne.

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