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S. J. Wiseman – More on Reading “Domestic” Tragedy and A Woman Killed with Kindness: Another Response to Lisa Hopkins

More on Reading “Domestic” Tragedy and A Woman Killed with Kindness: Another Response to Lisa Hopkins S. J. Wiseman Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) In response to Lisa Hopkins’s article “The False Domesticity of A Woman Killed with Kindness” I want to make one, brief, point: the catch−all category […]

Martin Spevack – The End of Editing Shakespeare

The End of Editing Shakespeare Martin Spevack Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Surveying editions of Shakespeare in 1853, the anonymous reviewer in the Athenaeum concluded: “As the demand increases for the plays of Shakespeare, so new editors will arise—all with notions and new readings of their own,—till it will […]

Anthony Pagden – Peter Martyr and Richard Eden: A Letter

Peter Martyr and Richard Eden: A Letter Anthony Pagden Published in Connotations Vol. 6.1 (1996/97) Dear Editors, Thank you for your copy of Connotations and for your suggestion that I reply to Andrew Hadfield’s interesting piece “Peter Martyr, Richard Eden and the New World.” I do not, however think that […]

William Hamlin – On Reading Early Accounts of the New World

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 […]

Kenneth Muir – Remembrance of Things Past

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 […]

Inge Leimberg – M. M. Mahood, Shakespeare’s Wordplay: Some Reappraisals. Introducing the Subject.

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. […]

Brian Gibbons – Doubles and Likenesses-with-difference: The Comedy of Errors and 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 […]

Maurice Hunt – Poetry vs. Plot in The Winter’s Tale: Modernity and Morality in M. M. Mahood’s Shakespeare’s Wordplay

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 […]