“I am not Oedipus”: Riddling the Body Politic in The Broken Heart Lisa Hopkins Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) In 1988 Verna Ann Foster and Stephen Foster published an extremely incisive article in English Literary Renaissance in which they argued that close parallels between the situation in John Ford’s […]
Joan Didion and “Company”: A Response to John Whalen-Bridge Gordon O. Taylor – Joan Didion and “Company”: A Response to John Whalen-Bridge and 251-57 Published in Connotations Vol. 6.3 (1996/97) “TO BE CONTINUED” are the last words on the final page of Norman Mailer’s long novel Harlot’s Ghost. The ending […]
An Answer to Maurice Hunt’s “Modern and Postmodern Discourses in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale” David Laird Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) I’m grateful to Maurice Hunt for his interrogation of issues linked to my piece on The Winter’s Tale.78) I’m also fascinated by what he takes to be its […]
The Texts of Peter Martyr’s De orbe novo decades (1504-1628): A Response to Andrew Hadfield Michael Brennan Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) In his informative reading of Richard Eden’s English translation of Peter Martyr’s De orbe novo decades, Andrew Hadfield rightly takes as his starting point the view that […]
T. H. White, Pacifism and Violence: The Once and Future Nation Andrew Hadfield Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) My intellectual friends of those days, between the wars used to say to me: ‘Why on earth do you waste your talents feeding wild birds with dead rabbits?’ Was this a […]
Edwin Muir’s Chorus of the Newly Dead and its Analogues Kenneth Muir Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) In 1926 the Hogarth Press published Edwin Muir’s Chorus of the Newly Dead. This poem was never reprinted in his life−time, although he expressed his intentions of re−writing it with substantial revisions. […]
Hamlet: Reconstructing a Lost Code of Meaning Anthony DiMatteo Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) What’s Hecuba to him, or he to her, That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? (Hamlet 2.2.553−56)155) I. Introduction One […]
Carnival Vindicated to Himself? Reappraising “Bakhtinized” Ben Jonson Rocco Coronato Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) Ben Jonson would probably have chimed in with Molière’s rejoinder at accusations of plagiarism: “Je prends mon bien où je le trouve.” As a matter of fact, his literary fame has been usually impaired […]
Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer of Titus Andronicus Anthony Brian Taylor Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) Acceptance of Lucius, who restores order at the end of Titus Andronicus, has sometimes been qualified, on one or two rare occasions, his role has even been questioned,170) but for the most part, […]
“Shakespeare’s Wordplay—Some Reappraisals”: A Reply. Molly M. Mahood Published in Connotations Vol. 6.2 (1996/97) Connotations’ re-reviews, forty years on, of Shakespeare’s Wordplay gave me great pleasure—the more so in that they all focus on my favourite play—but their kindness also leaves me feeling a bit of a fraud. I have […]
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