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Cecile Wiliamson Cary – A Comment on Roy Battenhouse’s “Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Christian Premises”

A Comment on Roy Battenhouse’s “Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Christian Premises” Cecile Wiliamson Cary Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) Abstract Cecil Williamson Cary reviews Shakespeare’s Christian Dimension (edited by Roy Battenhouse). Professor Battenhouse’s summary of the premises on which he has based his criticism of Shakespeare and his account of […]

Nancy A. Gutierrez – A Response to Lisa Hopkins

A Response to Lisa Hopkins Nancy A. Gutierrez Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) In her brief but suggestive essay, “The False Domesticity of A Woman Killed with Kindness,” Lisa Hopkins reminds us that the domestic context and description in Thomas Heywood’s play are in fact self−conscious authorial inventions, providing […]

Frances M. Malpezzi – E. K., A Spenserian Lesson in Reading

E. K., A Spenserian Lesson in Reading Frances M. Malpezzi Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) As the mysterious glossarist of Edmund Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender, E.K. has long been a thorn−in−the−side of Spenserian critics who have bristled over inaccuracies and labeled him pompous and pedantic. While E.K.’s comments have […]

Jacqueline Vaught Brogan – Elizabeth Bishop and a Grammar for the Underclass? Response to Jonathan Ausubel’s “Subjected People in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop”

Elizabeth Bishop and a Grammar for the Underclass? Response to Jonathan Ausubel’s “Subjected People in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop” Jacqueline Vaught Brogan Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) When Elizabeth Bishop concludes her well-known poem, “At the Fishhouses,” with the genuinely re-markable line that since “our knowledge is historical,” […]