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Title:
"'My masters, are you mad? Or what are you?': Discourses of Incivility and Madness in Twelfth Night"
Author:
Ruberry-Blanc, Pauline.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Theta 11 (2013): 77–86. (http://umr6576.cesr.univ-tours.fr/publications/Theta11/)
Annotation:

Explores madness and its relationship to anger in Twelfth Night to suggest "that while such furor brevis is usually a negative force, it may in special circumstances conduce to revelation, discovery, and comic denouement." French summary.

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"Performing Disability and Theorizing Deformity"
Author:
Williams, Katherine Schaap.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
English Studies 94, no. 7 (2013): 757–72.
Annotation:

Analyzes how Shakespeare's Richard III performs disability, arguing that his "'deformity' is not static, nor is it easily parsed?the play upends the critical and cultural impulses to codify Richard's form into a specific, legible, bodily formation." English summary, 757.

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"The Different Western Perception of the Oriental Moor in the Renaissance and the Twentieth Century: Shakespeare's Othello and Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North: A Post-Colonial Critique"
Author:
Alhawamdeh, Hussein A..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Considers the difference in Orientalism in Othello and Salih's Season of Migration to the North (q.v.). Argues that "Salih's novel laments, rather than deconstructs, the Renaissance Shakespearean powerful Moor, as represented by Othello."

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Title:
"Hearing the Scene: Approaches to Live Music in Modern Shakespearean Productions"
Author:
Leonard, Kendra Preston.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Analyzes use of music in the David Lan's 2005 As You Like It as well as Tempest, Hamlet, and Henry V from the American Shakespeare Center's 2011 Fall season (all q.v.). Argues "that the use of live music, particularly the use of music that suggests the specific chrono-or geo-location of an individual production's setting, is an appropriate tool for assisting inexperienced audiences in understanding the setting of the play."

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Title:
"The Kindest Cut: Circumcision and Queer Kinship in The Merchant of Venice"
Author:
Greenstadt, Amy.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
ELH 80, no. 4 (2013): 946–80.
Annotation:

Explores the meanings of of "kind" and "kindness" in Merchant of Venice. Argues that the relationships in the play can be understood in context of Jewish rites of circumcision, "a form of bonding based on mutual sacrifice." Also discusses the similarities between circumcision and defloration, submitting that the women in the play also work into these bonds of "queer kinship."

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Title:
"When Pretence Rules Over Essence: Shakespeare's Bastard in King John"
Author:
Loder, Conny.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
89–101.
Annotation:

Argues that King John's the Bastard is a Machiavellian performer who "uses the theatrical means of an actor to manipulate the members of the English Commonwealth into fulfilling their duties an thus maintains the stability of the Commonwealth."

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Title:
"'Mon seul Shakespeare.'"
Author:
Nichet, Jacques.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Sillages critiques 15 (2013). (http://sillagescritiques.revues.org/2756.)
Annotation:

Examines the costumes, scenography, casting, rhythm of delivery, and blend of tragedy and comedy in his production of Measure for Measure (q.v.). French and English summaries.

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Title:
"'When you have Shakespeare, why do you need movies?': Neil Jordan's Michael Collins and an Anti-Hamletian Hamlet"
Author:
Steel, Jane.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Etudes irlandaises 38, no. 1 (2013): 107–22.
Annotation:

Explores thematic analogies between Hamlet and Neil Jordan's Michael Collins using a psychoanalytic criticism, Slavoj Zizek's writings, and the theory of "extimacy." Demonstrates that literature itself can function as a critical tool. English and French summaries, 107.

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Title:
"King Lear on the Arabic Stage: Linguistic, Social and Cultural Considerations"
Author:
Muhaidat, Fatima M.; Neimneh, Shadi S.; Hussein, Elham T..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Theory and Practice in Language Studies 3, no. 2 (2013): 244–253.
Annotation:

Considers the problems of translations by comparing Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Fatima Moussa Mahmoud's different translations of King Lear. English summary, 244.

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