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Christiane Lang-Graumann – Gerard Manley Hopkins Revisiting Binsey

Gerard Manley Hopkins Revisiting Binsey Christiane Lang-Graumann Published in Connotations Vol. 8.1 (1998/99) Binsey Poplars,    felled 1879, My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, All felled, felled, are all felled;    Of a fresh and following folded rank    Not spared, not one    That […]

Verna A. Foster – Convicts, Characters, and Conventions of Acting in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good

Convicts, Characters, and Conventions of Acting in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good Verna A. Foster Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) Few plays endorse the social and cultural value of theatre as explicitly as Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good. Like Thomas Keneally’s novel The Playmaker, on which it is based, […]

Christiane Bimberg – Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good as Contributions to a Definition of Culture

Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good as Contributions to a Definition of Culture Christiane Bimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) Caryl Churchill and Timberlake Wertenbaker belong to Great Britain’s most distinguished female contemporary playwrights. Over the years they have helped to shape out of alternative, […]

Chris Hassel, Jr. – Shakespeare’s “Removed Mysteries”

Shakespeare’s “Removed Mysteries” Chris Hassel, Jr. Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) Maurice Hunt persuades me in “Old England, Nostalgia, and the ‘Warwickshire’ of Shakespeare’s Mind” that several details in A Midsummer Night’s Dream might have been prompted by one of Shakespeare’s own early Warwickshire experiences, a summer pageant in […]

John P. Hermann – Paradise Remembered in Some Poems and Paintings

Paradise Remembered in Some Poems and Paintings John P. Hermann Published in Connotations Vol. 7.3 (1997/98) Let us begin at the crossroads where place, language, memory, and mind intersect, as Keats imagines, or reimagines. Specifically, with finitude suddenly catapulted to the 2nd, 3rd, or nth power, that is, with what […]