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Title:
"Shakespeare's Arts of Reenactment: Henry at Blackfriars, Richard at Rougemont"
Author:
Schwyzer, Philip.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Focuses on the "conjunction of memorial modes" in early modern and modern stagings of Richard III (q.v.) and Henry VII as a way to make the past present. Considers Hamlet as it relates to Richard III.

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"Scenic Memory"
Author:
Dillon, Janette.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Uses Tempest and Winter's Tale to investigate the "overlaying of memorial meaning in theatrical performance" and show how it affects the stage-picture in early modern theater.

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"'Read Thine Own Evil': Exploring the Faces of Evil in King Lear"
Author:
Pietryzkowska-Motyka, Anna.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Analyzes the function of evil in King Lear, specifically its manifestation in the words and acts of Lear, Goneril, Regan, and Edmund. Considers dealings between various forms of evil.

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Title:
"Toward the Desertion of Sycorax's Island: Challenging the Colonial Contract"
Author:
Bryant, Rachel.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
ESC: English Studies in Canada 39, no. 4 (2013): 91–111.
Annotation:

"Argue[s] that The Tempest reflects a deep and characteristically Shakespearean anxiety about what might be called the colonial contract--a term meant to encompass the various ways in which explorers and colonists compulsively treated 'new world' lands and populations as available resources to be acquired, exploited, and sold at market."

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Title:
"'I make it breed as fast': Paternal and Financial Anxiety in The Merchant of Venice"
Author:
Sierra, Horacio.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Sierra, New Readings of The Merchant of Venice, 85–107.
Annotation:

Reads Shylock's cruelty in Merchant of Venice in terms of cuckoldry, arguing that "we can understand Shylock's desire to exact his bond as a hyperbolic, psychosexual manifestation wherein he paradoxically battles and embodies anti-usury polemics." Finds that he "displaces the unease he feels about Jessica's paternity and the Venetian community's hypocritical denigration of his business by conflating financial regeneration and biological reproduction."

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Title:
"Reading Materiality: The Literary Critical Treatment of Physical Texts"
Author:
Walker, Jonathan.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Renaissance Drama, no. 41s. 1/2 (2013): 199–232.
Annotation:

Stemming from Shakespearean textual criticism, argues that bringing material characteristics of early texts into the literary interpretive process can help produce the dramatic meaning of a text. Focuses on Sir Thomas More.

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Title:
"La mémoire et l'oubli dans les oeuvres de Shakespeare"
Author:
Suhamy, Henri.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Focuses on the references to memory and forgetfulness in Shakespeare in order to examine their functioning on stage as a rhetorical mainspring, dramaturgical tactic and an authorial tool to question the "perenniality of literary creation." French and English summaries, 1.

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Title:
"Shakespeare and the Fortunes of War and Memory"
Author:
Hiscock, Andrew.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Focuses on the importance of memory in Shakespeare's first tetralogy, investigating memory as a significant source with which to "consolidate a commitment to political change." French and English summaries, 11.

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