Knowledge Commons | Amber Prestidge | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/amberprestidge/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Amber Prestidge is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:22:01 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8bede9d14171acb1c937333dad2fe5dc Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories to Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886887/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:31:03 -0400 This series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that focus on English drama from the
late Tudor to the pre-Restoration Stuart periods (ca. 1550–1650). The editor is interested in intersectional
and interdisciplinary feminist perspectives, broadly conceived, and encourages studies that investigate
the discursive production of g…[Read more]

]]> 0 783d1737129c08243218e77942737872 Merrill Hatlen deposited The Bard Behind the Scenes in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874095/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:51 -0500 Background on recent novel, "The Bard & The Barman: An Account of Shakespeare's Lost Years."

]]> 0 c33c00f1395329b1270cb0d333a701c4 Merrill Hatlen deposited A Writer's Resolution in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871655/ Fri, 19 Jan 2024 03:00:06 -0500 A tongue-in-cheek reflection of a debut novelist on the social peril of getting published.

]]> 0 158663fbe20082ff7ac57123c28dfa69 Merrill Hatlen uploaded the file: Shakespeare's Play Settings - Missing Maps to Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869688/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:44:16 -0500 Several readers have suggested that a map would have been helpful in following the action in The Bard & The Barman, so I’m belatedly posting maps of Shakespeare’s play settings. Not only do these detailed illustrations by Andras Bereznay make it easier to follow the Bard’s footsteps, but they suggest that he wasn’t just an armchair travele…[Read more]

]]> 0 40ec550325fef0e0384e7b0c8b734790 Merrill Hatlen uploaded the file: Book Detour to Hell & Paperback to Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868033/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:01:07 -0500 Draft of a spoof on book tours, based on my novel, "The Bard & The Barman: An Account of Shakespeare's Lost Years." I'm seeking beta readers for Part 1. Thanks!

]]> 0 365ac80f64e12eff8cf28bd03f13d70c Cristina León Alfar deposited Abandoning Tragedy in James Ijames Fat Ham in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862110/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:05:40 -0400 The story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is adapted and revised by James Ijames in his play Fat Ham, which ran from 12 May to 31 July 2022 at The Public Theater, coproduced by the National Black Theatre. Ijames’s play, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, plays with and departs from the plot of Hamlet to explore Black manhood, the fam…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ca7b58035f1f60f0babd53bcf0c6914 Christopher Crosbie deposited “The Comedy of Errors, Haecceity, and the Metaphysics of Individuation” in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843572/ Thu, 04 May 2023 02:23:55 -0400 Examines Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the epistemological challenges of differentiating twins in light of Aristotle's Metaphysics, specifically his theories of substance and individuation.

]]> 0 505541ee8177b89ccbc6388b992c9eec Christopher Crosbie deposited The Longleat Manuscript Reconsidered: Shakespeare and the Sword of Lath in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842089/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 02:25:03 -0400 The Longleat Manuscript, the earliest known illustration of a Shakespearean play, contains three main components: a passage from the beginning of Titus Andronicus where Tamora pleads for her son's life, lines from Aaron's final confession, and a hand-drawn image that, apparently, corresponds with neither passage fully. Amid other mysteries, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4307f3d99fa8d8c5077a67f82b077cf Merrill Hatlen deposited Love's Labour's Found in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839776/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:26:11 -0400 While working on my recent novel, "The Bard & The Barman: An Account of Shakespeare's Lost Years," I endeavored to write a sequel to Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" which left the characters frozen in time. No one is going to confuse my work with the Bard's, but I welcome any feedback on this play, written in contemporary lingo, rather than…[Read more]

]]> 0 d55f6804424259ae6b20a3373bcae321 Merrill Hatlen deposited Love's Labour's Found in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839764/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:25:17 -0400 While working on my recent novel, "The Bard & The Barman: An Account of Shakespeare's Lost Years," I endeavored to write a sequel to Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" which left the characters frozen in time. No one is going to confuse my work with the Bard's, but I welcome any feedback on this play, written in contemporary lingo, rather than…[Read more]

]]> 0 a00f16dae974aca3c070ab2bdfa933b0 Christopher Crosbie deposited Aristotelian Time, Ethics, and the Art of Persuasion in Shakespeare’s Henry V in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834290/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:44 -0500 In his response to the Dauphin, his threats before Harfleur’s walls, and his St. Crispin’s Day oration, Henry V deploys what we might call proleptic histories of the present as a means of rhetorical persuasion. Henry invites his audiences, that is, to imagine themselves in the future, understanding the present as part of their own history. Hen…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb0c070f76865fedd92c11344f2c1069 Merrill Hatlen started the topic New publication on Shakespeare's lost years in the discussion Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/groups/shakespeare-1046709442/forum/topic/new-publication-on-shakespeares-lost-years/ Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:16:45 -0400 THE BARD DIDN’T JUST WRITE DRAMA, HE LIVED IT

The Bard and the Barman sheds new light on William Shakespeare’s “lost years, based on the dubious account of a barman who served as the Bard’s confidant in London.  Shakespeare’s formative years in France are recounted, including his friendship with the future king of France, Henri IV, who inspired [Read more]

]]> 860e6ec91fe410ca2ded6941c3372d45 Kevin A. Quarmby deposited 'Shakespeare in Prison': A South African Social Justice Alternative in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1755854/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 03:50:56 -0400 "'Shakespeare in Prison': A South African Social Justice Alternative" interrogates the validity of certain ‘Shakespeare in prison’ initiatives. In so doing, it engages in ongoing criticism of arts outreach projects and their effectiveness, while highlighting the role of anti-mass-incarceration activists who denounce such well-meaning efforts as…[Read more]

]]> 0 01742dc2409d5e75fe95ac33dbae8fe0 Scott Oldenburg deposited The Tempest and Race in New Orleans in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740068/ Sun, 30 May 2021 02:24:43 -0400 This article examines The Tempest in light of artists' renderings of the play in New Orleans, reflecting on anti-Black racism in Shakespeare's play and in the Deep South.

]]> 0 17f46fc2927644f4fbf7c4a7f1361b92 David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, "From Directions to Descriptions: Reading the Theatrical Nebentext in Ben Jonson’s Workes as an Authorial Outlet” (SEDERI 27, 2017), pp. 7–26. in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717517/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:24:31 -0500 This article explores how certain dramatists in early modern England and in Spain, specifically Ben Jonson and Miguel de Cervantes (with much more emphasis on the former), pursued authority over texts by claiming as their own a new realm which had not been available – or, more accurately, as prominently available – to playwrights before: the sta…[Read more]

]]> 0 f95850877097252a4577abd0456e9b1b David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “Comparing the Commercial Theaters of Early Modern London and Madrid” (Renaissance Quarterly 71.2, 2018), pp. 610-644 in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717512/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:24:07 -0500 Comparative studies have revealed uncanny similarities between the theatrical cultures of Shakespearean England and Golden Age Spain, and in particular between the Elizabethan amphitheaters and the Spanish corrales de comedia (courtyard playhouses). Contrary to conventional wisdom, however, Spain’s (and, in particular, Madrid’s) courtyard the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cde570a886f4a58ba60a38588aaddca1 David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, "A Day in the Life: The Performance of Playgoing in Early Modern Madrid and London" (Bulletin of the Comediantes 70.2, 2018), pp. 111-127 in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716898/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 02:25:10 -0500 Going to the theater was one of the most distinctive-as well as conspicuous-cultural activities to take place regularly in early modern european cities. Precisely because so many people from all walks of life partook of this highly visible pastime, public theaters became spaces wherein social and cultural boundaries between spectators were easily…[Read more]

]]> 0 9be5b731d57d05b7720da8299b56ca7d David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “'A Broken Voice': Iconic Distress in Shakespeare’s Tragedies” (Anglia 137.1, 2019), pp. 33-52 in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716893/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 02:24:48 -0500 This article explores the change in dynamics between matter and style in Shakespeare’s way of depicting distress on the early modern stage. During his early years as a dramatist, Shakespeare wrote plays filled with violence and death, but language did not lose its composure at the sight of blood and destruction; it kept on marching to the beat o…[Read more]

]]> 0 890614905ee0fa70fcd7ec87f5a54147 David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, "Playing Gender: Toward a Quantitative Comparison of Female Roles in Lope de Vega and Shakespeare" (Bulletin of the Comediantes 71.1-2, 2019), pp. 119-134 in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716889/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 02:24:38 -0500 One of the major differences between the otherwise very similar commercial theatrical cultures of early modern Spain and England was that, whereas in England female roles were performed by young, cross-dressed boys, in Spain female performers were prominent in their industry. indeed, actresses in Spain played an active role in the creative process…[Read more]

]]> 0 3484019434ad06861d3f0e72e87045c5 Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea's Colonization of Hamlet in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1711712/ Sun, 11 Oct 2020 02:30:47 -0400 "Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea's Colonization of Hamlet" offers a timely reminder about the dangers of imposing a reformulated national myth on international Shakespeare productions. Focusing on a London performance of Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s shamanized Hamlet, this case study invites far broader consideration of the readability of glo…[Read more]

]]> 0 5125c33f2ba5fa24ca9cba4060ac6470 Gabriel Ready deposited Model of Disorder: the story of Alternative First Folios in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1706818/ Sun, 30 Aug 2020 02:23:38 -0400 This article is an examination of the preliminary material of Shakespeare’s First Folio. With the correct order of the preliminary leaves unknown, the sequence of the first 18 pages has long puzzled scholars. Over the last 400 years, binders have assembled the gathering differently, spawning a variety of order types. Using several data sources, i…[Read more]

]]> 0 5caf4b43630d7a5fdebdc67eef5d1e4c Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Falstaff’s Baffled “Rabbit Sucker” and “Poulter’s Hare” in 1 Henry IV in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696329/ Fri, 10 Jul 2020 03:21:05 -0400 In 1 Henry IV, Falstaff enacts his histrionic mock deposition scene, only to be usurped by England’s true heir, Prince Hal. Irate at his actorly demotion, Falstaff praises his own performance skills, while suggesting that, if found lacking, he should receive a punishment befitting his knightly status. Likening Falstaff to small game hanging in a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e8dd0c421b56fb89bcd5d31cae80887 Gabriel Ready deposited Model of Disorder: the story of Alternative First Folios in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692938/ Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:26:12 -0400 With the correct order of the preliminary leaves of Shakespeare’s First Folio unknown, the sequence of the first 18 pages has long puzzled scholars. Over the last 400 years, binders have assembled the first gathering differently, spawning a wide variety of order types. Using data from Anthony James West’s Census of First Folios (2003) and A Des…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6c8876ef3b887834e3ac576ee93a40c Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684088/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:28:00 -0400 In this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]

]]> 0 9746d93ae7dc2bcd31e00925f45bfc49 Maheswari D deposited இலக்கியங்களில் மருத்துவச் சிந்தனைகள்/ THOUGHTS OF MEDICINE IN LITERATURE, Volume-2, March 2020 Special Issue-4, Vol-2 in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682232/ Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:25:26 -0400 This is the Vol – 2, SPECIAL ISSUE 4: VOL – 2, MARCH 2020 issue.

]]> 0 f05378c693a5ac4c96edf9f64db0e77c Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680212/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 03:51:01 -0500 How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6c8c1ff5f83af789126e536b8ec0594 Cristina León Alfar started the topic New publication in the discussion Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/groups/shakespeare-1046709442/forum/topic/new-publication-5/ Sat, 15 Feb 2020 19:18:36 -0500 Alfar, Cristina León “Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 789–819. (Available through ProjectMuse muse.jhu.edu/article/741025.)

]]> 331064d9adba88fa4efdc910fe641d02 Yan Brailowsky deposited Ab ovo or in medias res? Rewriting History for the Early Modern Stage Or, How Elizabethan History Plays Collapsed Referentiality in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678376/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:26:45 -0500 Shakespeare’s representations of history often have replaced history itself in the popular imagination: Julius Caesar, Margaret of Anjou, Henry V, Richard III — popular recollections of their lives and deaths are intimately linked with Shakespeare’s accounts of their stories, despite the playwright’s deviations from historical facts. In order t…[Read more]

]]> 0 d986043b10ce5c82159616129a2f13ec Yan Brailowsky deposited La nuit genrée ou l’obscure clarté des scènes anglaises in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678372/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:26:37 -0500 Gendered night, or the nocturnal brightness of the early modern English stage
In French, critics speak of the night using feminine terms, but the term is grammatically neutral in English. Despite this neutrality, night may be gendered. In Romeo and Juliet, virgins hide their shame from their lovers by hiding in the dark. If night is consecrated…[Read more]

]]> 0 74bd07279a65b233b7c0b78420c7a602 Yan Brailowsky deposited Reconnaissance et « acknowledgment » sur la scène élisabéthaine in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678370/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:26:33 -0500 For poets like Sir Philip Sidney, the numerous incongruities found in Elizabethan drama fly in the face of Aristotelian theory. London audiences in 1580-1600 would have been hard pressed to recognize the time and place of the action represented on stage from one scene to the next. By comparing Greek theory and Elizabethan practice, this paper…[Read more]

]]> 0 57069c7cf45201553596e2b4904f9192 Yan Brailowsky deposited ‘My bliss is mixed with bitter gall’: gross confections in Arden of Faversham in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678368/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:26:29 -0500 What might strike some as Arden of Faversham’s faulty construction may perhaps be ascribed to the fact that Arden’s murderers, as well as the play’s audience, had to learn how to “temper poison” (i.229). Poison is not simply a means to commit murder, its use also requires great dexterity, one which must be interpreted within a historical and metat…[Read more]

]]> 0 9249d7522b934311adeec3a87285891c Emma Smith deposited On Editing in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666839/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:28:10 -0400 Covering the changes in Shakespeare editorial theory and practice over the decades between the publication of the Oxford Shakespeare (1986) and the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016), this article surveys a range of modern texts with different rationales and aimed at different readerships. The article has three sections: the imagery associated with…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab27c6c8be2324429e429141e1b9a82a Amy Borsuk deposited Innovating Shakespeare: The Politics of Technological Partnership in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest (2016) in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635833/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:35:44 -0400 This article examines the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) recent focus on digital ‘innovation’ by analysing the relationship between their emerging digital-focused business practices and digital performance practice for The Tempest (2016). To assess this relationship, I first review the socioeconomic context of 21st century neoliberal UK econo…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b3ce4bea06a781eb8e33cecf5d8a56b Michael L. Hays deposited Race: Political Correctness vs. Scholarship in the Humanities in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615022/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:43:26 -0400 Describes and analyzes two episodes of article rejections based on political correctness and several published instances of politically correct inverse racism. Shows that political correctness in judging scholarship on race uses a double standard which enables reverse racism and an unsavory rhetoric. Discusses political correctness as the…[Read more]

]]> 0 7167ad4aa0a312e4ce31e7a7f9bba8ec Michael L. Hays deposited Some Maladies of Early Modern Race Study in Shakespeare in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615019/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:43:22 -0400 Reviews the Shakespeare Quarterly special issue (spring 2016), a collection of articles on different aspects of modern race study in Shakespeare. Addresses the problems confronting race study, the rhetoric of race "conversation," and difficulties in race scholarship. Focuses on Ian Smith's "Who Speaks for Othello" as representative of race study…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a912dba6f3f2b1c7436ea0cc352b1c3 Michael L. Hays deposited The English Profession-Tendentious Reflections of a Retired Independent Scholar. in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615017/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:43:19 -0400 Provides a personal perspective on, and analysis of, developments in the English profession. Emphasizes the proliferation of PhDs, the industrialization of scholarship and its effects on research and promotion, and the diminished influence and status of English studies. Makes suggestions for addressing present difficulties and reviving the study…[Read more]

]]> 0 9172c88f5868114b77e654acaa85bc5a Michael L. Hays deposited The Dehumanizing of the Humanities and a Remedy in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615015/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:43:17 -0400 Explores issues of professionalization and politicalization of humanistic studies. Sketches an up-dated return to the basics of humanistic research and teaching.

]]> 0 6001db7d212d820b3a843dcb86ee56d7 Michael L. Hays deposited Answer the Question, Question Authority, and Read Inclusively in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615013/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:43:15 -0400 Critiques current status of relationship between scholarly research and academic teaching. Uses three examples--one each from Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear--to illustrate connections between both efforts.

]]> 0 e783481399910f1106cefe7ffee01498 Michael L. Hays deposited The Shakespeare Authorship Question: E Pluribus Unum in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615011/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:43:12 -0400 Describes the dynamics of the attribution argument between Stratfordians and anti-Stratfordians, with particular attention to the asymmetries of the debate. Revisits the evidence of Greene's "A Groatsworth of Wit." Sketches and critiques two anti-Stratfordian arguments on that evidence.

]]> 0 9bff0859ccab48976a4c05b8c3253a1c Michael L. Hays deposited Diana Price’s Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography: The Epitome of Anti-Stratfordian Scholarship in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615010/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:43:12 -0400 After a critical overview of Price's anti-Stratfordian argument, this paper scrutinizes her argument on Greene's "A Groatsworth of Wit" and three arguments on the First Folio's items "To the Reader," Jonson's tribute, and "To the great Variety of Readers." All arguments reveal typical deficiencies in scholarly analysis of the evidence and typical…[Read more]

]]> 0 c23b259f013aea711479f42d9471992c William Casey Caldwell started the topic Food/Beer in Private Theaters in the discussion Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/groups/shakespeare-1046709442/forum/topic/food-beer-in-private-theaters/ Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:59:56 -0400 Hi all, I'm looking into whether beer and food may have been sold in the 17th century private playhouses, like Blackfriars. Gurr and others take up positions on the public playhouses, I'm curious whether anyone has come across suggestions (positive or negative) that these may have been sold inside/during the performances at the indoor spaces?

]]> 7e946aef2ffc70edb35b0ad541fa06c9 Michael L. Hays deposited Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73" as a Poetic Emblem in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611364/ Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:27:39 -0400 This close reading addresses the couplet, puzzling because of its generality, which critics try to constrict by forced specificity. The quatrain-to-quatrain sequence of the image clusters suggests the theme of transitoriness and parallels The Order of The Burial of the Dead in The Book of Common Prayer, which burial ritual justifies the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e38be7c947dd24f437c43a71ba979396 Michael L. Hays deposited “‘Othello Is Not about Race’” in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611362/ Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:27:38 -0400 Received opinion based on scanty evidence and skimpy arguments holds that race and racism operate in important ways in Othello and Othello’s jealousy. Few specifically race-referential words and only one specifically racist image occur in the play, almost all in the first four scenes.

Brabantio’s, Roderigo’s, and Iago’s views are mistake…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3cc1d39b51f9462b7bf0e1b37f1da22 Michael L. Hays deposited Romancing the Sources: Framing Tales in Hamlet and King Lear in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611358/ Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:27:36 -0400 Romance as a group of, and label for, some of Shakespeare’s last plays presupposes the influence of later romance kinds, and Shakespeare studies presuppose their influence and preclude the influence of an earlier romance kind, namely, chivalric romance. This sub-genre includes romances like Bevis of Hampton and Guy of Warwick, both popular in S…[Read more]

]]> 0 11a80a2c503caf77a5c4ec0ac8b7735a Michael L. Hays deposited Emending Othello; Explaining Othello: A Critique of Contemporary Principles of and Practices in Editing Shakespeare and a Historical-Literary Interpretation of Othello’s Jealousy in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611350/ Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:12:26 -0400 Modern editors of Othello unanimously and silently adopt the Folio (1623) text as their copy text but emend it in light of the quarto (1622) text at III, iii, 97. Neither of the two reasons for emendation, textual corruption or literary unintelligibility, applies. A critique of textual editing shows that, given knowledge of the many and various…[Read more]

]]> 0 8646e72dcd60379c2bdf0c297c1d4a41 Michael L. Hays deposited A Sense of the Ending: Does Malcolm Earn It? in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611204/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:13:10 -0400 This presentation asks whether Macbeth ends literally, as traditional criticism has viewed it, or ironically, as modern criticism would have it. Its answer emphasizes Malcolm’s role by detailing the Court Scene, which tests Malcolm, not MacDuff, to establish his character, legitimacy, and competence to rule. It shows this scene as a turning p…[Read more]

]]> 0 341fd694dc69647a2391dcba6444f17d Michael L. Hays deposited Saving His Source: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth, IV, iii in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611202/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:13:09 -0400 This presentation presents a critical overview and assessment of the pedagogical and critical treatment of the Court Scene, with particular attention to its use in modern political interpretations; places Malcolm in the thematic context established by Holinshed’s comparison of Duncan and Macbeth; puts the scene in the context of the play’s plo…[Read more]

]]> 0 766107a5d5a3fe4333d7f1971cf99b31 Michael L. Hays deposited Sources, Scholarship, and Sense: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611200/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:13:08 -0400 “Sources, Scholarship, and Sense: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth,” , (2003)

This presentation uses an analysis of Shakespeare’s primary source as a means to disclose modifications and retentions for the purpose of achieving both dramatic and narrative ends. Establishing the identity of “Bellona’s Bridegroome” as MacDuff enabl…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7c6a22b0aca9866e7c979a2ae7001ce Michael L. Hays deposited Shakespeare’s Hand in "Sir Thomas More"-Some Aspects of the Paleographic Argument in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610798/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 04:14:04 -0400 Reviews arguments for identifying Shakespeare's handwriting to the handwriting of Addition IIc in the Sir Thomas More ms. and, by reference to the concept of a control as the indispensable requirement for such comparison, finds the arguments not only instances of special pleading, but a failure to satisfy this fundamental requirement. Urges…[Read more]

]]> 0 02b8b00a41e9ac81f4fccec041aee328 Michael L. Hays deposited Is Renaissance Shakespeare Medieval or Modern? in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610786/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 04:14:00 -0400 Uses the survival of the English chivalric romance tradition throughout Shakespeare's professional lifetime and his exploitation of that tradition especially in his major tragedies to challenge the commonplace distinction between the medieval and the renaissance on the one hand, and to suggest that his openness to that medieval tradition showed…[Read more]

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