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Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 back issues
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Jacob and Esau and the iconoclasm of merit.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... John E. Curran Jr., Jacob and Esau and the Iconoclasm of Merit
This article contends that the mid-Tudor interlude Jacob and Esau, long known to have a Protestant slant, promotes a Calvinistic doctrine of election consonant with Edwardian theology and that in doing so it also enacts a rare...
Allusion and sacrifice in Titus Andronicus.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Danielle A. St. Hilaire, Allusion and Sacrifice in Titus Andronicus
This essay defends Shakespeare's character Titus Andronicus against recent criticism by arguing that the calamitous events in Titus Andronicus are not caused by Titus behaving badly but by the construction of the play...
Making "Young Hamlet".(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Matthew Harkins. Making "Young Hamlet"
While youth's subordinate position in Hamlet has played a vital role within the play's critical tradition, this tradition has not questioned the ideological processes that create "youth" as a social category--that define what youth means, whom it...
Music and the crisis of meaning in Othello.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Erin Minear, Music and the Crisis of Meaning in Othello
The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice has been called Shakespeare's most musical tragedy, but critics examining the role of music in the play have tended to use the word in very different and even contradictory ways. This essay...
Dramatic nostalgia and spectacular conversion in Dekker and Massinger's: the virgin Martyr.(Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Holly Crawford Pickett. Dramatic Nostalgia and Spectacular Conversion in Dekker and Massinger's The Virgin Martyr
Critical debates about Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger's The Virgin Martyr (1620) often center on the play's Protestant or Catholic sympathies, but the play's treatment of...