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Title:
Ham-let: A Shakespearean Mash-Up
Author:
Burnstein, Jim; Schiff, Garrett.
Type:
Book Monograph
Year:
2022
Publication Information:

Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2022. No pagination.

Annotation:

Graphic novel adaptation of Hamlet featuring anthropomorphic animals based on characters from several Shakespeare plays. Cover and fine art by Elisa Ferrari, colors by Valerio Alloro, and letters by Frank Cvetkovic.

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Title:
"'Must I Remember?': A Just-So Story about Shakespeare and His Mother"
Author:
Wheeler, Richard P..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
American Imago 79, no. 4 (2022): 593–626.
Annotation:

Envisions Mary Arden Shakespeare's younger days, uses psychoanalysis to imagine elements of mother-child bond with her son Shakespeare, and imagines relationsuip's influence on development of Shakesepare's art. English summary, online. 

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Title:
"Proliferating Performance, Propagating Print: The Many Lives of Restoration Drama"
Author:
Watkins, Stephen.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Huntington Library Quarterly 85, no. 1 (2022): 113–130.
Annotation:

Explores theatrical and textual responses to William Davenant and John Dryden’s Restoration adaptation The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island (1670). Examines proliferation of printed materials generated in response to stage play's popularity, revealing importance of dramatic reception beyond playhouse. English summary, 113.

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Title:
"Tyrannicide, Law, and Sacrifice in Julius Caesar"
Author:
Nyquist, Mary.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
ELH 89, no. 4 (2022): 893–926. (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/872466)
Annotation:

Considers Plutarch's Life of Publicola as crucial yet understudied intertext for Shakespeare's plays. Uses text to offer new reading of Julius Caesar's dramatization of tyrannicide and Roman Republic's transition to imperial rule. English summary, online.

 

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Title:
"Apocalyptic Psychic Landscapes, Haunting Internal Objects, and the Murderousness of Group Dynamics in Julius Caesar"
Author:
Miller, Christopher.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
American Imago 79, no. 4 (2022): 627–659.
Annotation:

Considers dynamics of group mindset in Julius Caesar, noting how individual resentments become collective motivations for Caesar’s assassination, and Antony and Brutus’ respective attempts to sway public opinion through their speeches, with Antony’s speech leading to further collective violence. Notes loss of subjectivity and control when individual becomes part of larger group. English summary, online.

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Title:
"Francis Kirkman, Theatrical Historian"
Author:
Connor, Francis X..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Huntington Library Quarterly 85, no. 1 (2022): 171–196. (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/872053)
Annotation:

Argues that publishers play crucial part in creating of English dramatic canon through discussion of Restoration stationer Francis Kirkman's play catalogs of late seventeenth century. English summary, online. 

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Title:
"Quoting the Devil: Defining the Shakespearean Epitaph"
Author:
Blake, Katherine.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
ELH 89, no. 4 (2022): 865–891. (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/872465)
Annotation:

Explores Shakespearean epitaph as distinct sub-genre, noting their critical neglect due to past neglect of social paradigms of burial that shape them. Reads three Shakespearean epitaphs with Titus Andronicus's tomb scene "to reveal how Shakespearean epitaph uniquely approaches encomium, memory, and the social significance of the gravesite." English summary, online.

 

 

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