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Title:
"Shakespeare, mi i sumrak civilizacije [Shakespeare, Us, and the Twilight of Civilization]"
Author:
Khan, Shahab Yar.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2020
Annotation:

Compares portrayal of disease in Shakespeare's works to coronavirus in the twenty-first century. Bosnian summary, online.

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Title:
"'... In Jeder Zeile Von Shakespeare Handeln' –Zur Problematik Des Fiktionalisierten 'Genies'. Ein Vergleich Zwischen Johann Gottfried Herders Shakespeare-Aufsatz (1773) Und Egon Friedells Shakespeare-Essay (1911)" | "'... in every line facing up to Shakespeare' –On the Difficulty of the Fictionalized 'Genius.' Johann Gottfried Herder's Essay about Shakespeare (1773) as Compared to Egon Friedell's Essay about Shakespeare (1911)"
Author:
Porath, Mike.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2019
Publication Information:
Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia 28 (2019): 83–100.
Annotation:

Considers portrayal of Shakespeare's genius in two essays: one by Johann Gottfried Herder and one by Egon Friedell. Argues that "Herder utilizes Shakespeare for his poetological scheme to underscore a new and progressive type of poet in the epoch of Sturm und Drang" and that "Friedell tries to exemplify by reference to Shakespeare an entire era in contradistinction to his present age at the beginning of the 20th century." German, English, and Polish summaries, 82-83.

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Title:
"Shakespeare Lives!: Anniversary Revivals and Exhumations of Shakespeare"
Author:
Lorek-Jezińska, Edyta.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2019
Annotation:

Analyzing Shakespeare Lives! and its short-form video content designed for social media, "investigate[s] how the British Council makes a Shakespeare a spreadable commodity, combining the technologically advanced popular culture aesthetics with a degree of updated yet re-circulated controversy and subversion." Focuses on Phoebe Boswell's "Dear Mr Shakespeare" (an adaptation of Othello) and Viktoria Modesta's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (q.v., directed by Shola Amoo). English summary, 129.

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Title:
"Caliban: Ideology meets Irony"
Author:
Papahagi, Adrian.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2016
Annotation:

Reads Caliban as "an ironic counterpart of every character in The Tempest." Declares that "critics who reduce Caliban to the lame ideological cliché of the native oppressed in a colonial world fail to understand the concomitant dignity and abjection of the monster’s character, his irreducible complexity, and his ambiguity." English and Romanian summaries, 135.

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Title:
"The Pregnant Body and the Body Politic: Cultural Representations in Tudor and Stuart Drama. Corpul gestant şi corpul politic: Reprezentări culturale pe scena elisabetanăşi iacobină"
Author:
Percec, Dana.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Considers onstage pregnant body as "over-body," drawing on scholarship by Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. MacPherson (q.v.) and using All's Well that Ends WellMeasure for Measure, and Winter's Tale as examples.

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Title:
"On the Semantics of Proper Names and of Common Names"
Author:
Oltean, Stefan.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2009
Annotation:

Explores the phrase "a Shakespeare of our time" as an example of a proper name making meaning because of Shakespeare's reputation. English summary, 157.

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Title:
"Semantic Revival of a Cliché in Shakeskpeare's Plays: 'all is well'"
Author:
Tǎmâianu-Morita, Emma.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2005
Annotation:

Draws on speech act theory to show that "ALL-BE-WELL" formulations are "magic command[s], initially infelicitous." English summary, 163.

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