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Anti-Catholic Polemic in Jacobean Print Culture: Contextualizing Westward for Smelts (1620) 

Wood, Amanda (2006-08-15)
The 1620 anonymous prose fiction Westward for Smelts does not identify itself as a participant in the popular anti-Catholic polemic rampant in Jacobean England. Instead, Smelts relies heavily upon stereotyped caricatures ...

Invisible Tokens: Staging Cultural Anxieties about the Plague in the Plays of Shakespeare and Jonson 

Thiele, Matthew (2011-03-30)
My study examines the influence of plague on six plays: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare, and Epicoene, Volpone, and The Alchemist by Ben Jonson. Between 1570 and ...

The Trouble With Gender in Othello: A Butlerian Reading of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice 

Peters, Jeri (2007-08-15)
By applying the theories of gender as performance developed by feminist theorist Judith Butler in her 1990 work, Gender Trouble, to the canonical text of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, ...

Usurping Authors: A Case Study of Authority Displacement in Richard II 

Godwin, Sarah (2006-05-15)
When a text is published, the author loses authority and the authorial message can be easily displaced and replaced by various interpreters. Playwrights have the difficulty of adding directors, actors, and audiences who ...