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Reclamations of Shakespeare

Print Book, English, 1994
Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1994
317 p.
9789051836066, 9051836066
1120227998
Introduction. Andrew GURR: Shakespeare and the Visual Signifier. Mieke BAL: The Rape of Lucrece and the Story of W. Roberta E. PEARSON and William URICCHIO: Shrieking from below the Gratings: Sir Herbert Beerbohm-Tree's Macbeth and His Critics. Helen WILCOX: Gender and Genre in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies. Willem SCHRICKX: Elizabethan Drama and Anglo-Dutch Relations. Anthony PAUL: The Poet Laureate's National Poet. Paul J.C.M. FRANSSEN: Portraits of Mr. W. S.: The Myth of Sweet Master. Shakespeare in Asimov, Wilde, and Burgess. Aart BALK: Revolting against the Legend: Anti-Shakespearean Elements in Jules Laforgue's Hamlet. M. T. JONES-DAVIES: Shakespeare and the Myth of Hercules. C. C. BARFOOT: News from the Roman Empire: Hearsay, Soothsay, Myth and History in Antony and Cleopatra. Mark BERGE: My Poor Fool Is Hanged: Cordelia, the Fool, Silence and Irresolution in King Lear. Henk GRAS: Enchanting Melodrama: Shakespeare and the Use of the Boy Actor in As You Like It. Pierre ISELIN: Myth, Memory and Music in Richard II, Hamlet and Othello. Julia MULLER: Music as Meaning in The Tempest. P. J. GABRINER: Hierarchy, Harmony and Happiness: Another look at the Hunting Dogs in the Induction to The Taming of the Shrew. J. J. PEEREBOOM: Every Word in Shakespeare. Michael GREEN: Sixth Form and Pressure: Why Teach Shakespeare at A Level? Notes on Contributors. Index.