Plague, Fire, and Typology in Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year Alan Rosen Published in Connotations Vol. 1.3 (1991) Abstract The essay examines Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year in light of Thomas Vincent’s treatise God’s Terrible Voice in the City (1667). Rosen argues that Defoe subverts […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is a reply to John Morrill’s “Charles I, Cromwell and Cicero,” which was written in response to Dale B. J. Randall’s “The Head and the Hands on the Rostra: Marcus Tullius Cicero as a Sign of Its Times.”
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 […]
Maria’s Theology and Other Questions (An Answer to John Russell Brown) Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 1.2 (1991) Abstract This is a reply to John Russell Brown’s “More about Laughing at ‘M.O.A.I.” It addresses the different parts of Brown’s response to Inge Leimberg’s article “‘M.O.A.I.’ Trying to Share the […]
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 […]
Doctor Faustus and Intertextuality (A Response to Paul Budra and Paul Yachnin) Mark Thornton Burnett Published in Connotations Vol. 1.2 (1991) Abstract This essay further contributes to the debate started by Paul Budra’s “Doctor Faustus: Death of a Bibliophile.” Contributions by Paul Budra and Paul Yachnin to the first issue […]
Charles I, Cromwell and Cicero (A Response to Dale B.J. Randall) John Morrill Published in Connotations Vol. 1.1 (1991) Abstract In further developing the historical Interregnum context of Markus Tullius Cicero, John Morrill’s response to Dale B. J. Randall asks to consider Fulke Greville, 1st Lord Brooke as the play’s […]
“M.O.A.I.” Trying to Share the Joke in Twelfth Night 2.5 (A Critical Hypothesis) Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 1.1 (1991) Abstract In this article, Inge Leimberg takes on Shakespeare’s Malvolio (Twelfth Night) and his sin of self-love against the backdrop of theology, philosophy and literature contemporary to Shakespeare. On […]
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