On Reading Early Accounts of the New World William Hamlin Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Abstract William Hamlin reacts to Andrew Hadfield’s Article “Peter Martyr, Richard Eden and the New World: Reading, Experience, and Translation” stresses specifically how Hadfield’s argument deals with cultural contacts and advocates a high sensibility […]
Remembrance of Things Past Kenneth Muir Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Abstract Kenneth Muir explains how it came about that he and Molly Mahood, at approximately the same time, published articles in defence of Shakespeare’s word-play. He then goes on to explore how “[t]o Molly Mahood, “… The Winter’s […]
M. M. Mahood, Shakespeare’s Wordplay: Some Reappraisals. Introducing the Subject. Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Abstract Inge Leimberg introduces this volume’s special section commemorating the 40th anniversary of Molly M. Mahood’s Shakespeare’s Wordplay. It contains a series of articles reappraising this book’s chapter on The Winter’s Tale. […]
Doubles and Likenesses-with-difference: The Comedy of Errors and The Winter’s Tale Brian Gibbons Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Abstract [This article is part of a series of articles in Connotations Vol. 6 that commemorate the 40th anniversary of Molly M. Mahood’s Shakespeare’s Wordplay.] Early in his career, Shakespeare deliberately […]
Poetry vs. Plot in The Winter’s Tale: Modernity and Morality in M. M. Mahood’s Shakespeare’s Wordplay Maurice Hunt Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) No one, either before or since the publication in 1957 of Shakespeare’s Wordplay, has matched M. M. Mahood in her ability to tease out the multiple […]
The Magic of M. M. Mahood’s Shakespeare’s Wordplay David Laird Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Abstract David Laird reads Molly M. Mahood’s chapter on The Winter’s Tale (in her volume Shakespeare’s Wordplay) “to be reminded of the vicissitudes of critical taste and practice, to be challenged to look beyond […]
The Woods, the West, and Icarus’s Mother: Myth in the Contemporary American Theatre John Russell Brown Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) In the youthful days of modern Europe, a mythology inherited from the Greek and Roman empires offered a sportive freedom to the mind among pagan gods and goddesses, […]
Myths of Identity in Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight” Mary C. Fuller Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) 1. The protagonist of “The Schooner Flight” describes himself, in a passage which has become well−known, as a rusty head sailor with sea−green eyes that they nickname Shabine, the patois for any […]
The Myth of the American Adam in Late Mailer John Whalen-Bridge Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) Let us begin with the problem of Adam. Lewis’s 1955 study, The American Adam, explored a variety of nineteenth−century American writings to show that “the American dialogue” has largely been about notions of […]
The Control Machine: Myth in The Soft Machine of W. S. Burroughs70) John G. Watters Published in Connotations Vol. 5.2-3 (1995/96) The claim made by William S. Burroughs that he is creating a “mythology for the space age”71) did not lend me much assistance when writing this paper, however it […]
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