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)35) 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,50) 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 […]
Comparing the Trickster in a Postmodern Post-Colonial Critical World Carol Lazzaro-Weis Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) In his introduction to a collection of essays on Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Jonathan Miller points out that the first problem a producer has to face when staging Mozart’s opera is one of classification: […]
D. L. Macdonald’s “Derek Walcott’s Don Juans”: Walcott’s Debt to Tirso de Molina Raymond Conlon and 123-29 Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) After many years as a hispanist teaching in an English department I have come to the somewhat disturbing conclusion that the literature of Spain is too often […]
Response to D. L. Macdonald’s “Postilla”: The One and the Same Redux James Mandrell Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) “You say eether and I say eyether … .”105) The distance between Mandrell’s position and my own has to do, I think, both with subject matter and approach. (“A Postilla”)106) […]
Derek Walcott’s Don Juans: A Postilla D. L. MacDonald Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) After publishing my article on “Derek Walcott’s Don Juans” in Connotations, Dr. Leimberg sent a copy to James Mandrell, author of the admirable Don Juan and the Point of Honor: Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary […]
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