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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Shakespeare’s comedies"”.
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Shakespeare and the Ecofeminist Killjoy: Disruptive Women and Untamed Nature in Early Modern England
… corpus of ecocritical responses to William Shakespeare’s plays to examine the ways in which the early modern period lay what Amitav Ghosh refers to as the ‘literary grid of forms and conventions’ that continues to shape narratives of gendered interaction with and responsibility toward …
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English printed drama in collection before Jonson and Shakespeare
Benjamin Jonson’s Works (1616) and William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1623) overwhelmingly dominate studies of the English drama collection. This critical focus has revealed much of what we know about the collection as a format for dramatic texts in early modern England, but …
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Problematising Petrarchism: Shakespeare’s Varying Responses to an Elizabethan Cult
This dissertation is concerned with Shakespeare’s varied, rich and multifaceted responses to the cult of Petrarchism in Elizabethan England in selected sonnets, narrative poems and plays. I start by providing a sense of the historical tradition of Petrarchism both in general and in its various …