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Title:
"Os Relãmpagos da Fatalidade: Reflexões Sobre o Trágico a Partir de Nietzsche e Shakespeare [The Fatality of Lightning: Reflections on the Tragic from Nietzsche and Shakespeare]"
Author:
Moraes, Eduardo Carli de.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Inquietude: Revista dos Estudantes de Filosfia da UFG 4, no. 1 (2013): 48–67 http://www.
Annotation:

Expands on Nietzsche's brief comments on tragedy in Shakespeare's works to explain Nietzsche's praise of Shakespeare as a philosopher. Portuguese summary, 47.

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"Raabe und Shakespeare: Zum Spiel mit Zitaten in 'Kloster Lugau,' 'Die Akten des Vogelsangs,' un anderen Texten [Raabe and Shakespeare: To Play on Quotations in 'Lugau Monastery,' 'The Acts of Vogelsang,' and Other Texts]"
Author:
Robertson, Ritchie.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft (2013): 1–22.
Annotation:

Stresses the importance of quoting and citations in literary works through an examination of Wilhelm Raabe's quotations of Shakespeare. Focuses on explicit parallels between Raabe's Kloster Lugau [Monestary Lugau] and Shakespeare's Hamlet as well as less direct allusions to Antony and Cleopatra in Raabe's Die Akten des Vogelsangs [The Acts of Vogelsang].

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Title:
"Writing Faithfully in a Post-Confessional World"
Author:
Betteridge, Thomas.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Power, Late Shakespeare, 1608-1613, 225–42.
Annotation:

Through an exploration of James I's approach to religious conformity, argues that "Shakespeare [returns] to the religious roots of the English Reformation in plays that oscillate between the historical and the contemporary, fact and fiction, belief and faith."

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"Shake-scene, Shake-bag, Shake-speare: La prima ricezione di Shakespeare e le allusioni al cognome [Shake-scene, Shake-bag, Shake-speare: The Early Reception of Shakespeare and Allusions to the Surname]"
Author:
Coronato, Rocco.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate 66, no. 2 (2013): 105–25.
Annotation:

Explores the significance of poetic allusions, puns, and references regarding Shakespeare's name that appear in Shakespeare's own poetry as well as other early modern literature and historical documents.

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Title:
"Shakespeare Comics in the Classroom"
Author:
Fischer, Pascal.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
155–75.
Annotation:

Argues that using comic adaptations of Shakespeare's works can facilitate student understanding in the classroom by "reducing students' fear of contact." Notes that graphic representations of the plays restore an important visual element to the classroom and allow students to engage in performance criticism. Provides sample lessons for teaching Hamlet. English summary in Neumann, English and American Studies in German 2013 (q.v.).

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Title:
"Magic and Gender in Late Shakespeare"
Author:
McAdam, Ian.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Power, Late Shakespeare, 1608-1613, 243–61.
Annotation:

"Explores the idea of masculine self-fashioning in Shakespeare's later drama through magical motifs, observing a developing ideology in the works of Shakespeare" that persists through his final plays.

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Title:
"Governing Romance in Seventeenth-Century England"
Author:
Jacobs, Nicole A..
Type:
Dissertation
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Pennsylvania State, 2013, not paginated. <p>Dissertation Abstracts International</p>
Annotation:

Traces the relationship between the romance genre and seventeenth-century politics. Hypothesizes two types of romance, the diagnostic, which critiques the conflict between society and government, and the prescriptive, which offers strategies for combating political injustice. Devotes one chapter to Pericles and Winter's Tale, exploring Shakespeare's "politics of romance."

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"Hamlet's Alchemy: Transubstantiation, Modernity, Belief"
Author:
Eggert, Katherine.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespeare Quarterly 64, no. 1 (2013): 45–57.
Annotation:

After tracing the "history of disputes over the physics of transubstantiation in order to dispute the historicity of skepticism that is typically applied to the treatment of the Eucharist in Hamlet," considers how "Hamlet's pondering of the nature of physical change also touches on alchemy, whose own theories of material change are inextricable from medieval and early modern theories of Eucharistic transformation." Concludes that "when Hamlet brackets the fate of human flesh with alchemy and transubstantiation, it exposes Hamlet's hopeless nostalgia for a medieval, preskeptical, Eucharistic-style unity of body and spirit as false nostalgia." Reply by Theodore Leinwand, 58-59.

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Title:
"Shakespeare's Hermeneutic Legacy: Herder on Modern Drama and the Challenge of Cultural Prejudice"
Author:
Gjesdal, Kristin.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespeare Quarterly 64, no. 1 (2013): 60–69.
Annotation:

Focusing on Johann Gottfried Herder's essay "Shakespeare," argues "that hermeneutics, as a modern, philosophical discipline, is solidly planted in the Enlightenment tradition in eighteenth-century German philosophy, in particular, its debate about the aesthetic challenges of Shakespearean drama." Reply by Paul A. Kottman.

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