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Title:
"'[B]orn at sea, buried at Tarsus,/And found at sea again': Pericles and Liminal Form"
Author:
Hall, Mark Webster.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture 60, no. 1 (2013): 3–15.
Annotation:

Focuses on the characters' "reductive transformations as they drift towards redemption" in Pericles to examine the rituality of the play through the lens of liminality. English summary, 3.

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"'These are not our Father's words!': Kill Shakespeare's Defense of the Meta-Text"
Author:
Tondro, Jason.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies (6): no. 3 (2013). (http://tinyurl.com/ps6d76f.)
Annotation:

Examines Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery's Kill Shakespeare to argue that the graphic novel is a meta-text that engages with its own critics and addresses its alteration sof Shakespeare.

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"Decision, Possession: The Time of Law in The Winter's Tale and the Sonnets"
Author:
Cormack, Bradin.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Focusing on the legal distinction between process and decision in Winter's Tale and on the concept of the legal "heir" in Sonnets, argues that literary texts and legal texts meet in their attention to linguistic differentiation.

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Title:
"'Lively Evidence': Legal Inquiry and the Evidentia of Shakespearean Drama"
Author:
Hutson, Lorna.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Examines temporality in Othello in exploring the dependence of Shakespeare's plotting on processes of conjectural thinking, which leads to the expansion of the importance of forensic evidence in the early modern period's jury system.

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Title:
"Interpreting Statute in Measure for Measure"
Author:
Jordan, Constance.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Uses Measure for Measure in analyzing the formal and technical aspects of statutory interpretation, suggesting that Shakespeare advocates rule by law in the issue of the relation between law and monarchy.

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Title:
"Vengeance, Complicity, and Criminal Law in Othello"
Author:
McAdams, Richard H..
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

In examining Iago's criminal behavior, focuses on Shakespeare's critical engagement with early modern criminal law in Othello, pointing out that "Othello refuses to accord Desdemona the very procedures that had vindicated him of a false charge in Act I." Reprinted as Chicago: Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 504, available http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/public_law_and_legal_theory/520/ .

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Title:
"Making Room, Affording Hospitality: Environments of Entertainment in Romeo and Juliet"
Author:
Lupton, Julia Reinhard.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43, no. 1 (2013): 145–72.
Annotation:

Utilizes "hospitality as a framework that merges the theatrical and the thematic in Shakespearean drama within dispositions of space that are at once urban, domestic, agrarian, and political-theological"; concludes that this "framework connects community to cosmos through its social and symbolic work."

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