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Title:
"Aping Rape: Animal Ravishment and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern England"
Author:
Dugan, Holly.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

In examining Comedy of Errors and John Donne's Progess of the Soul, argues that reoccurring narratives of human rape by apes contributed to "the construction of early modern male sexual dominance."

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"Simms, Shakespeare, and Civil War"
Author:
Alexander, Benjamin B..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2011
Publication Information:
Simms Review, no. 19s. 1-2 (2011): 53–61.
Annotation:

Articulates how Shakespeare's plays influenced William Gilmore Simms and helped him articulate the complexities of civil war by demonstrating how "to deal dramatically with imperial invasion and sectional loyalties, as well as political leaders involved with such issues."

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Title:
"Encoding Heteronormativity in the Target Culture: Slovenian Translations of The Merchant of Venice"
Author:
Gorjanc, Vojko.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Meta: Journal des traducteurs/Translators' Journal 57, no. 1 (2012): 145–58.
Annotation:

In examining how linguistic norms enforce ideas of heteronormativity in Slovenia, offers a brief examination of evidence of homosexuality in Slovenian-language translations of Merchant of Venice. English and French summaries, 145.

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Title:
"Julius Caesar: The Problem of Classical Republicanism"
Author:
Burns, Timothy.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Dobski, Shakespeare and the Body Politic, 49–78.
Annotation:

In investigating the problem of the virtuous individual and his rule of the republic in Julius Caesar, suggests that the downfall of the Roman republic can be traced to its understanding of moral virtue. Incorporated in Shakespeare's Political Wisdom (q.v.)

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Title:
"Crowded Subjects: The Crisis of Two Souls in Early Modern England"
Author:
Lee, James J..
Type:
Dissertation
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
California--Berkley, 2013, not paginated. <p>Dissertation Abstracts International</p>
Annotation:

Draws on Shakespeare to examine the early modern paradox of Aristotelian and Christian souls, arguing that early modern writers contested and redefined the word "soul" into something coherent through narrative and poetry.

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Title:
"Love, Honor, and Community in Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet"
Author:
Jensen, Pamela K..
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Dobski, Shakespeare and the Body Politic, 95–116.
Annotation:

Examines Machiavellian politics and moral-political response to it in Romeo and Juliet. Translated into Polish as "Miłość, honor i wspólnota w "Romeo i Julii" Shakespeare'a" (by Marcin Rychter) in Kronos: Metafizyka, Kultura, Religia 4 (2016): 163-88.

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Title:
"'At war 'twixt will and will not': Government, Marriage, and Grace in Measure for Measure"
Author:
Meilaender, Peter C..
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Dobski, Shakespeare and the Body Politic, 119–38.
Annotation:

Examines Shakespeare's thearapeutic turn to Christian marriages in Measure for Measure, presenting Christian union as politically salutary in that it integrates the parts of the body politic within a greater whole.

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