Browsing by Subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation"
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- ItemHamlet: The Rationality of Madness in a World Under Surveillance(2015) de Armas, Michael; Riebling, Barbara
- ItemIn-Between Nobody and Somebody: Desdemona's Deconstruction(2008) O'Malley, Hayley; Sherman, Debora
- ItemLanguage, Violence, and the Metadramatic in Titus Andronicus(2009) Meaney, Jack; Finley, C. Stephen
- ItemMurderous Errors and Erroneous Murders: Physiology, Society and the Struggle for Identity in Othello and El Medico de su Honra(2001) McBryan, Jennifer; Allen, Elizabeth; Quintero, María Cristina
- ItemOutlining the English Nation: Textual Catachresis and its Translation In Shakespeare's Henry IV and Henry V(2003) Lynn, Greta; Benston, Kimberly W.Through the lens of J. Hillis Miller's notion of catachresis, this paper examines problematic scenes in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV and Henry V, particularly concerning the depiction of the national or linguistic Other. Considering the Henriad as an attempt to not only outline, but construct a literary England, this paper examines the problems inherent in the creation of first a literary nation, and then a literary empire. Using the nexus of translation through which to examine the evolution of the problems of the catachrestic moment in one text to those in the other, this paper questions the legitimacy of these translated catachrestic moments, and interrogates them with regard to whether or not they ameliorate or further problematize the issues of linguistic/cultural margins, colonialism, and translation inherent in both plays.
- ItemPlayer King: Early Modern Theatricality and the Playing of Power in William Shakespeare’s Henriad(2005) Townsend, Emily; Kramer, Joseph E.This essay examines Shakespeare’s history plays as an exploration of the place of theatricality in politics. Over the course of two tetralogies, Shakespeare enters into the Early Modern theatrical discourse by presenting his audience with a series of monarchs who rise and fall according to their histrionic skill and interpretation of the role of King. Prince Hal easily emerges as the playwright’s champion, destined for success by the strength of his theatrical drive and his innate understanding that to succeed within the realm of political theatre, one must become a Player.
- ItemSartre, Shakespeare and and the Theater of Identity: An Inquiry Concerning the Self, Sado-Masochism, and Drama(1990) Schalk, Peter; Macbeth, Danielle
- Item"Whereby Hangs a Tale" : Narrative and the Deconstruction of the Self in Othello(2010) Tartanella, Emily; Benston, Kimberly W.My thesis examines Othello as a text fundamentally concerned with the nature of narrative and story-telling. I argue that while Othello initially sees narrative as a linear system, he is forced to see it as endlessly recursive, wherein brides re-transform to daughters, adults into children, Christians into barbarians. Through a series of techniques I term "anti-narrative," or which might as well as be termed "anti-linear," (such as gossip, repetition, silence, and generalities), Iago constructs a vision of narrative that has no room for Othello's desire for narrative stability. As such the final act represents not a conclusion or closure, but the acceptance that such closure is impossible.