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Title:
"Translation as 'Trans- Sica' and 'False Compare': Preserving the Future 'Afterlife' of Contrastive Literature"
Author:
Mounir, Ben Zid.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Argues that cultural changes made in Arabic translations of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 that significantly alter the original text in making it conform to Arab values. Notes that the translators changed the gender of the poem's subject from male to female and "destroyed the true Shakespeare concept of beauty." English summary, 11.

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"Performing Marriage in Shakespeare: The Tempest"
Author:
Pierce, Robert B..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference 6 (2013): 43–55.
Annotation:

Considers marriage at end of Tempest as performantive act; discusses how it was and is viewed by early modern audiences and twenty-first-century audiences. Argues that marriage functions as "gift" created by Shakespeare and his self-reflecting character, Prospero.

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"Commedia Dell'Arte Influences on Shakespearean Plays: The Tempest, Love's Labor's Lost, and The Taming of the Shrew"
Author:
Drake, Amy.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference 6 (2013): 11–30.
Annotation:

Evaluates "rich theatrical tradition of commedia dell'arte" and its influence in Tempest, Love's Labor's Lost, and Taming of the Shrew. Argues that its impact strengthens Shakespeare's resonance with today's audiences.

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Title:
"Shakespeare and James I: Personal Rule and Public Responsibility"
Author:
Kurland, Stuart M..
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Power, Late Shakespeare, 1608-1613, 209–24.
Annotation:

"Suggests that a key unifying feature of the late plays can be found in the way they engage with the topical concerns related to the person, politics and court of James I." Further "explores the repeated staging of the 'problematics of personal rule', depicting rulers who . . . find it difficult--or impossible--to balance public responsibilities with personal imperatives."

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Title:
"Shakespeare Disenchanted: From Chivalric Court to Elizabeth's and James I's Courts"
Author:
George, David.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference 6 (2013): 31–42.
Annotation:

Traces Shakespeare's disillusionment with chivalry and courtly love as evident in his plays when he witnesses its superficiality in Elizabeth's and James I's courts. Engages Love's Labor's Lost as example of Shakespeare's early interest in chivalry and women but moves on to demonstrate his departure from comedies and idealistic perspective.

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Title:
"Shakespearean Text by Yuriy Dombrovsky"
Author:
Antsyferova, Olga Yu.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Bulletin of Perm State University. Russian and Foreign Philology 21, no. 1 (2013): 130–34.
Annotation:

Suggests that Yurey Dombrovsky's personal fascination Shakespeare, as seen in novella "Lady Macbeth," goes beyond purely literary interest. Russian summary, 130; English summary, 134.

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Title:
"On Religious Imagery in 'The Birthplace' (1903) by Henry James"
Author:
Antsyferova, O. Yu.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Philology and Culture (Russia) 32, no. 2 (2013): 52–56.
Annotation:

Analyzes religious imagery in Henry James's "The Birthplace" as commentary on Shakespeare, specifically authorship question, his literary cult, and problems of biography on afterlife. Russian summary, 52; English summary, 55.

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Title:
"Jane Campion's The Piano: or, Breaking Prospero's Spells"
Author:
Pilch, Tomasz.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature 1 (2013): 145–69 http://www.
Annotation:

Contends that Jane Campion's Oscar-winning film The Piano "corrects Shakespeare's misrepresentations and reconstructs omissions" in his depiction of colonial conquest in Tempest. English summary, 145.

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Title:
"Cicha Wiedza Hippolity--Sen Nocy Letniej w Lekturze René Girarda [Hippolyta's Silent Knowledge: René Gerard's Reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream]"
Author:
Wielchowska, Katarzyna.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Roczniki Kulturoznawcze 4, no. 2 (2013): 97–122.
Annotation:

Analyzes René Girard's reading of Midsummer Night's Dream as cultural text that focuses on "phenomenon of mimetic desire" and how it creates violence. English summary, 122.

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