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Title:
"Shakespeare's Hamlet and Familial Blessings: Historical Abruptions"
Author:
Simmons, J. L..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Modern Language Quarterly 74, no. 4 (2013): 441–63.
Annotation:

Examines the early modern "parented/parenting crisis" in Hamlet to suggest how the play revives the ritual of familial blessings as "pure and substantial reality."

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Title:
"Staging 'Hamlet': The Ethical and Aesthetic Dimensions of Space in Pastermak's Doctor Zhivago"
Author:
Pettus, Mark.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Slavic and East European Journal 57, no. 4 (2013): 561–80.
Annotation:

Argues that the opening poem of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, "Hamlet," reveals the marked symbolism of poetic space as a threshold with indefiniteness and ineffability.

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Title:
"Apocalyptic Tragicomedy by a Jacobean Audience: Dekker's Whore of Babylon and Shakespeare's Cymbeline"
Author:
Minton, Gretchen E..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 36, no. 1 (2013): 129–52.
Annotation:

Draws on Cymbeline as apocalyptic tragicomedy to argue that Shakespeare leaves audiences and readers with an uncertain apocalyptic vision that frustrates the clear reflections upon history and exegesis.

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Title:
"'Nothing but sit, and sit, and eat, and eat': The Cantankerous Teacher in The Taming of the Shrew"
Author:
De Barros, Eric L..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Quidditas 34 (2013): 125–62.
Annotation:

Focuses on conflicting perspectives about the education of women in the early modern period, explicating Petruchio's "body- and diet-oriented recommendation" in Taming of the Shrew. English summary, 125.

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Title:
"The Role of Women in the Canonisation of Shakespeare: From the Elizabethan Theatre to the Shakespeare Jubilee"
Author:
Kitamura, Sae.
Type:
Dissertation
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
King's College London, Ph.D., 2013.
Annotation:

Examines the role of women as play-goers, readers, and writers in the canonization of Shakespeare from the Elizabethan era through the Shakespeare Jubilee.

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Title:
"Biblical Allusions 'Their Shaddoe' and 'Thee' (the 27th Shakespeare Sonnet) in the Anthropocentric Paradigm of Investigation"
Author:
Selezinka, A. M..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
The Russian Academic Journal 23, no. 1 (2013): 52–54. (http://dx.doi.org/10.15535/g98.)
Annotation:

Suggests that "their shaddoe" and "thee" in Sonnet 27 are biblical allusions that refer to "the unity of many heroes in one" and offer "the possibility for a new interpretation of 'dark places' in Shakespeare sonnets." English and Russian summaries, 52.

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