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Philological Quarterly articles from June 1997
This journal covers aspects of medieval European and modern literature and culture. The articles published incorporate physical bibliography, the sociology of knowledge, the history of reading, reception studies and other fields of inquiry.
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Philological Quarterly archives from June 1997
Rape, marriage or death?: gender perspectives in the Homeric 'Hymn to Demeter.'
June 22, 1997... Much attention has been given recently to the problem of understanding the societies of ancient Greece and Rome from a woman's point of view; the problem is a particularly difficult one because virtually all of the evidence available is the...
The many masks of Parolles. (William Shakespeare's 'All's Well That Ends Well')
June 22, 1997... As a romantic comedy there are a number of very odd twists to All's Well That Ends Well. Its adolescens hero is a reluctant lover, delinquent husband, and a liar. The King of France practically forces the youthful Count of Rossillion to marry a...
Happy families: repentance and restoration in 'The Tempest' and the Joseph narrative. (William Shakespeare play and biblical Genesis story)
June 22, 1997... The Tempest seems the fable of choice for our post-modern, post-colonial era, with a formidable amount of critical weaponry trained upon it in recent decades. We celebrate its topicality, setting Caliban at center stage as victim of an imperial...
David Garrick, George III, and the politics of revision. (includes full text of skit 'Farmer's Return')
June 22, 1997... 1
A previously neglected manuscript of David Garrick's 1762 interlude, The Farmer's Return from London, provides fresh insight into the subtle pressures exerted upon theatre practitioners by the raging political climate of the 1760s. The...
Inspecting the tragedy of empire: Shelley's 'Hellas' and Aeschylus' 'Persians.' (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
June 22, 1997... By the time Shelley began writing Hellas in August of 1821, he had twice already sought to intervene in unresolved political crises by publishing highly learned poems based on Greek literary forms. In the "Ode to Naples," he imitated Pindar's...
English Women's Poetry.
June 22, 1997... By Carol Barash. Oxford U. Press, 1997. Pp. xv + 345 $55.00.
Carol Barash's handsome book provides a thoughtful and enlightening view of several women poets -- Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Anne Killigrew, Jane Barker, Mary, lady Chudleigh,...