Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and Context

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Ronald L. Dotterer
Susquehanna University Press, 1989 - 234 pages
Seventeen critics are represented in this collection of essays designed to illustrate the vitality and range of traditional and new approaches to Shakespeare studies.

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Contents

All That Is Known Concerning Shakespeare
15
Subtext in Shakespeare
31
Eavesdropping and Stage Groupings in Twelfth Night and Troilus and Cressida
42
The Recovery of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Playhouses
56
Shakespeares Tragic Homeopathy
77
Shakespeares Dramaturgical Foresight in King Lear
85
Macbeth and Its Audience
91
The Critical Reception of Shakespeares Tragedies in TwentiethCentury Germany
97
Remembering Patriarchy in As You Like It
139
Timons Servant Takes a Wife
150
Pucks Headless BearRevisited
157
make ropes in such a scarre
163
The Poetics of Shakespeares Henry VI Trilogy
186
Of Birds and Words in 1 Henry IV
201
A Contemporary Playwright Looks at Shakespeares Plays
207
List of Contributors
224

Hamlet Romantic SelfConsciousness and the Roots of Modern Tragedy
107
The Status of Women in Othello
124
Index
227
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