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Title:
"As I Am an Honest Puck"
Author:
Wiggins, Martin.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Around the Globe: The Magazine of Shakespeare's Globe 54 (2013): 34–35.
Annotation:

Considers the possibility that Midsummer Night's Dream was the "play of Robin Goodfellow" acted at the court during Christmas 1603/1604 and mentioned by Dudley Carleton in his letter of 15 January 1604.

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Title:
"Juliet's Blunder"
Author:
Watts, Cedric.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Around the Globe: The Magazine of Shakespeare's Globe 54 (2013): 38–39.
Annotation:

Considers Juliet's line "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo" (Romeo and Juliet, 2.2) illogical and questions why editors do not emend it to "Montague." Expanded version published in Shakespeare Puzzles (q.v.).

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Title:
"A Source for 'remembrances of things past' in Shakespeare's Sonnet 30"
Author:
Waugaman, Richard M..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespeare Matters 12, no. 1 (2013): 1, 15–16.
Annotation:

Identifies chapter 11 of the apocryphal Wisdom of Solomon as the source of "remembrances of things past" in Sonnet 30, then uses the underlinings in Edward de Vere's copy of the Geneva Bible to support the case for his authorship of Sonnets.

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Title:
"The Overlooked but Critical Significance of the Two Dedications to Southampton"
Author:
Warren, James A..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespeare Matters 12, no. 1 (2013): 19–23.
Annotation:

Finds evidence of Edward de Vere's authorship of Shakespeare's works in the dedications to Henry Wriothesley in Venus and Adonis and Rape of Lucrece.

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Title:
"Carnival's Dance of Death: Festivity in the Revenge Plays of Kyd, Shakespeare, and Middleton"
Author:
Rollins, Benjamin.
Type:
Dissertation
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Georgia State, 2013, not paginated. <p>Dissertations Abstracts International</p>
Annotation:

Draws on Shakespeare to argue that revenge plays "explore carnivalesque concerns" because revengers discover their subjectivity in "pleasure-seeking, self-serving urges of unofficial cultures."

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Title:
"More Evidence That Julius Caesar Dates to 1583"
Author:
Prechter, Edward.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespeare Matters 12, no. 1 (2013): 24–25.
Annotation:

Finds evidence in Thomas Day's Wonderful Strange Sights Seen in the Element that points to 1583 as the date of "the first version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar" and that supports the case for Edward de Vere's authorship.

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Title:
"Picturing Race: Early Modern Constructions of Racial Identity"
Author:
Erickson, Peter.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Journal For Early Modern Cultural Studies 13, no. 1 (2013): 151–68.
Annotation:

In a review essay on several volumes treating art, includes an extended discussion of race as a moral and physical attribute in the physical representation of Othello.

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