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Title:
"Timon of Athens (1606?) and Timon (1602?): Rhetorical and Ritualistic Violence"
Author:
Orman, Steve.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 48, no. 1 (2013): 85–99.
Annotation:

Explores rhetorical and ritualistic violence in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and the anonymous Timon (a student play from the Inns of Court). English summary, 85.

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Title:
"'Hear the Ambassadors!': Marking Shakespeare's Venice Connection"
Author:
Rutter, Carol Chillington.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespeare Survey 66 (2013): 265–86.
Annotation:

Examines "early modern theorizations of diplomacy" in relation to Antony and Cleopatra. Suggests that Shakespeare's knowledge of diplomacy comes from knowing Venetian ambassador Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli and English ambassador Henry Wotton.

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"'O, What a Sympathy of Woe is This': Passionate Sympathy in Titus Andronicus"
Author:
Meek, Richard.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespeare Survey 66 (2013): 287–97.
Annotation:

"[E]xplores the representation of sympathy in Titus Andronicus." Argues that "the play employs the word sympathy in an innovative way that associates it with ideas of cognition, projection, and imagination . . . redefining sympathy as an imaginative activity rather than an occult phenomenon."

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Title:
"Who Drew the Jew That Shakespeare Knew?: Misericords and Medieval Jews in The Merchant of Venice"
Author:
Kaplan, M. Lindsay.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespeare Survey 66 (2013): 298–315.
Annotation:

Speculates on "the influence of persisting medieval representations of Jews in early modern English culture" in Merchant of Venice. Argues that the Stratford misericord carving, "like the play, represents an archaic, antagonistic view of Jews that had gradually receded in other contemporary discourses."

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Title:
"'Imaginary Puissance': Shakespearian Theatre and the Law of Agency in Henry V, Twelfth Night, and Measure for Measure"
Author:
Sheen, Erica.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespeare Survey 66 (2013): 316–29.
Annotation:

Argues "that the treatment of . . . legal and theatrical principles of agency in Henry V, Twelfth Night, and . . . Measure for Measure . . . articulates a structural transformation of the status of the professional play and . . . a qualitative transformation of the terms on which these particular players presented the experience of theatre to their audiences, and of the political values associated with that experience."

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Title:
"'Let Me See What Thou Hast Writ': Mapping the Shakespeare-Fletcher Working Relationship in The Two Noble Kinsmen at the Swan"
Author:
Panjwani, Varsha.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespeare Survey 66 (2013): 344–53.
Annotation:

Uses the 1986 production of Two Noble Kinsmen at the Swan to suggest that Shakespeare's and Fletcher's collaboration was largely productive and not as fraught as previous work has suggested.

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Title:
"'I will open my lips in vain' (3.1.192): L'Échec rhétorique dans Measure for Measure"
Author:
Popelard, Mickaël.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Sillages critiques 15 (2013). (http://sillagescritiques.revues.org/2622.)
Annotation:

Examines language and persuasion in Measure for Measure, arguing that, unlike several other of Shakespeare's plays, it stages several "rhetorical failures" that suggest persuasive language is often used in vain. French and English summaries.

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