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Sandra Billington – A Response to Roy Battenhouse, “Religion in King John: Shakespeare’s View”

A Response to Roy Battenhouse, “Religion in King John: Shakespeare’s View” Sandra Billington Published in Connotations Vol. 1.3 (1991) Abstract This is a response to Roy Battenhouse’s “Religion in King John: Shakespeare’s View.” This delicately argued article initially won my sympathy, even regarding the opposite conclusion to the one which […]

Erik Kooper – Comments on Arthur Versluis, “Piers Plowman, Numerical Composition, and the Prophecies”

Comments on Arthur Versluis, “Piers Plowman, Numerical Composition, and the Prophecies” Erik Kooper Published in Connotations Vol. 1.3 (1991) Abstract This is a response to Arthur Versluis’s “Piers Plowman, Numerical Composition, and the Prophecies.” 1. On pp. 104−5 Versluis gives a short characterization of the A−, B−and C−texts of Piers […]

Thomas Merrill – The Language of Hell

The Language of Hell Thomas F. Merrill Published in Connotations Vol. 1.3 (1991) Abstract The essay focuses on the depiction of hell in Milton. The author argues that Milton’s Hell possesses a style more evocative than any of the overtly sacred scenes in Milton’s Heaven, which, despite their proliferation of […]

Matthias Bauer – Count Malvolio, Machevill and Vice

Count Malvolio, Machevill and Vice Matthias Bauer Published in Connotations Vol. 1.3 (1991) Abstract In this paper, Malvolio is seen, however tentatively, as being related to the “Machiavellian,” whose crafty machinations are turned by Shakespeare into the silly antics of the bitter fool of Twelfth Night. My point of departure […]

Roy Battenhouse – On Puzzling Shakespeare by Leah Marcus

On Puzzling Shakespeare by Leah Marcus Roy Battenhouse Published in Connotations Vol. 1.2 (1991) Abstract This book review focuses only on Leah Marcus’s treatment of <i>Measure for Measure</i> and on the limitations found there in the book’s critical method. My remarks will focus only on the book’s treatment of Measure […]

John Russell Brown – More About Laughing at “M.O.A.I.” (A Response to Inge Leimberg)

More About Laughing at “M.O.A.I.” (A Response to Inge Leimberg) John Russell Brown Published in Connotations Vol. 1.2 (1991) Abstract This is a Response to Inge Leimberg’s essay “‘M.O.A.I.’ Trying to Share the Joke in Twelfth Night 2.5 (A Critical Hypothesis).” Professor Leimberg has argued persuasively that “M.O.A.I.” in Twelfth […]