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Title:
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Director:
Lee Dae-ung.
Type:
Production
Year:
2022
Additional:

Sets by Lee Yun-su, costumes by Lee Myeong-ah, and lighting by Kim Seong-gu. Shim Ju-young, choreographer.

Venue:

Produced by Yohangza Theatre Company at Arko Arts Theater, Seoul, 28 April-29 May 2022.

Annotation:

With Kim Su-jeong (Speed), Kim Gi-bun (Proteus), Lee Hwa-jung (Valentine), Jeong Su-young (Silvia), and Nam Seung-hye (Julia).

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Title:
"City Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Coriolanus and Affective Political Engagement"
Author:
Sargent, Gregory.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Medieval and Renaissance Drama In England 35 (2022).
Annotation:

Studies significance of staging of city walls in early modern drama and their connections with early modern political realities. Connects representation of Roman city walls in Coriolanus with historical walls in early modern London, associated with civic authority and pageantry, and functioning as “potent spatial repositories of political emotions.”  

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Title:
"Heywood's Ages and The Tempest"
Author:
Arrell, Douglas.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Medieval and Renaissance Drama In England 35 (2022).
Annotation:

Explores connections between Tempest and Thomas Heywood’s five blockbuster Ages plays (Golden Age, Silver Age, Brazen Age and two-part Iron Age). Notes first three Ages plays were composed and staged around same time as Tempest, and observes last Ages plays were jointly produced by Queen Anne’s Men and King’s Men, Shakespeare’s theater company. Explores how popularity of Ages and involvement of King’s Men in large Ages productions and might have shaped Tempest, noting possibility of reciprocal influence

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Title:
"Being Vendible: Commodification and Agency in All's Well That Ends Well"
Author:
Kendrick, Matthew.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2021
Publication Information:
Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 32, no. 3 (2021): 192–211.
Annotation:

Studies significance of economic logic in All’s Well That Ends Well, and play's intertwining of economics with gender, politics and religion. Examines commodification of Helena’s virginity and sexuality, considering how Helena expresses agency in context of her economic objectification.   

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Title:
"Ballads and Product Placement in the Time of Shakespeare"
Author:
Stern, Tiffany.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Essays in Criticism 72, no. 3 (2022): 269–299.
Annotation:

Explores connections between ballads and plays in early modern period. Considers ballads used and written by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Studies ballad-jigs performed in plays, including Midsummer Night’s Dream, and discuses ballad-jigs performed by clowns such as Robert Tarleton. Notes authorship of ballads by William Kemp and Robert Armin, clowns from Shakespeare’s theater company. Examines sale of printed ballads outside playhouses by marginalized vendors.

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Title:
"Shakespeare's Animals: Is There Anything It is Like to Be Adonis?"
Author:
Lyne, Raphael.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Essays in Criticism 72, no. 3 (2022): 303–331.
Annotation:

Juxtaposes representation of rich inner lives of Venus, horse and hare in Venus and Adonis with comparatively thin portrait of Adonis’ thoughts, desires and experiences. Considers place of human among gods and animals, drawing on animal studies, phenomenology, and philosophical theories about limits of humans’ accessibility to other forms of consciousness, including animals'.

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Title:
"Medida por Medida: Positivismo Jurídico y Crítica Dworkiniana. Measure for Measure: Juridical Positivism and Dworkin's Criticism"
Author:
Carmo, Joana Silva Oliveira.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Revista Binacional Brasil Argentina 11, no. 1 (2022): 237–251.
Annotation:

Studies Angelo’s shifting motivations in Measure for Measure, from public servant uploading law to one who evades rules to fulfil his private interests. Studies Angelo in legal framework, Interpreting Angelo’s behavior through Ronald Dworkin’s criticism of legal positivist approaches to decision-making. Portuguese, Spanish, and English summaries, 237-8.

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Title:
"Política y tragedia en modo dialéctico. Orden, conflicto e historia en Romeo y Julieta [Dialectical modes in Politics and Tragedy: Order, Conflict and History in Romeo and Juliet""
Author:
Franco, Lucas.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Anacronismo e Irrupción 12, no. 22 (2022): 141–171.
Annotation:

Offers politicized reading of Romeo and Juliet, tracing Machiavellian thought in play and noting how play anticipates political philosophies by Hobbes and Hegel. Argues Romeo and Juliet can be read as history of political thought. Spanish and English summaries, 141.

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Title:
"Un'etnografia del folle. Poor Tom: dall'isolamento al teatro [An Ethnography of the Madman. Poor Tom: From Isolation to Theatre]""
Author:
Malinarić, Jovana.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi 14 (2022): 47–65.
Annotation:

Observes astute assessment of social dynamics in Shakespeare’s plays, to analyze roles of marginalized individuals in early modern theatre and broader society. Centers study on King Lear's Poor Tom as figure of impoverished, mentally-ill outsider. Considers how Shakespeare’s depiction of class divisions and inequality continue to resonate in contemporary moment. Italian summary, online.

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Title:
"The Hamlet Syndrome"
Author:
Wilson, Jeffrey R.; Fradella, Henry F..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2020
Publication Information:
Law, Culture and the Humanities 16, no. 1 (2020): 82–102.
Annotation:

Pulls from close reading of madness in Hamlet  to posit that play displays several signs of contemporary understanding of mental illness. Argues play theorizes novel "psycho-social concept that can contribute to our understanding of . . . tricky quirk in some modern cases involving malingering and . . . insanity defense." Puts Shakespeare's text in dialogue with modern notion of "Hamlet Syndrome" to elucidate "complex relationship between acting mad and being mad." Aims to spark discussion regarding veracity of "Hamlet Syndrome" and explore slippage between actor, audience, performance, and mental illness, real or feigned. 

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