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Title:
"The Merchant of Venice and Shakespeare's Sense of Humour(s)"
Author:
Bernard, J. F..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Renaissance Studies 28, no. 5 (2013): 643–58.
Annotation:

"[A]rgues that the tonal dissonance created by Antonio's melancholy in The Merchant of Venice is an integral component of its comic progression and, in doing so, construes the play as representative of Shakespeare's idiosyncratic genre of comedy."

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Title:
"Le trope du corps extérieur et intérieur: drame politique et drame personnel dans Coriolan de Shakespeare [The Trope of the Internal and External Body: Political and Personal Drama in Shakespeare's Coriolanus]"
Author:
Carré, Sonia.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Interrogates body (public and private) images in Coriolanus to argue that Shakespeare uses bodies critique seemingly harmonious social structures and to highlight paradoxes between public and private. French summary.

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Title:
"'Millions of false eyes/Are stuck upon thee.' The Scope of Surveillance in Measure for Measure"
Author:
Lefait, Sébastien.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Sillages critiques 15 (2013). (http://sillagescritiques.revues.org/2594.)
Annotation:

Examines the concept of surveillance in Measure for Measure, asserting that the Duke serves as a vehicle of surveillance in the play and that the elements of surveillance demonstrate Shakespeare's questioning of the theatre's right to imitate reality. French and English summaries.

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Title:
"Richard II: Folly, Degeneracy, and Deformity"
Author:
Gilchrist Hall, Sam.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Theta 11 (2013): 131–48. (http://umr6576.cesr.univ-tours.fr/publications/Theta11/)
Annotation:

Examines discourses of madness and deformity in Richard II. Argues that "the dominant values and ideals of the Ricardian age, the historical narratives from which the play draws, and the anti-theatrical polemics of Shakespeare's time are viewed askance?so as to shed light on the contradictions and irrationalities inherent in them." French summary.

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