NJES Volume 4, No. 2 (December 2005)
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REVIEW: Claire Asquith (2004), Shadowplay. Richard Wilson (2004), Secret Shakespeare
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REVIEW: Anna Swärdh (2003), Rape and Religion in English Renaissance Literature
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Moors, Social Anxiety and Horror in Thomas Rawlins's The Rebellion
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)In her article, Anna Fåhraeus contextualizes race within multiple images of social horror in Thomas Rawlins’s little-discussed tragedy The Rebellion (1640). While racial representation of the Moors in the play adheres to ... -
When the Golden Bough Breaks: Folk Drama and the Theatre Historian
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)The title of Tom Pettitt's essay alludes to the massive impact on theatre historians of Sir James Frazer's monumental work on comparative anthropology, The Golden Bough (1890). It fostered the thesis that English folk drama ... -
The Taming of a Shrew: Composition as Induction to Authorship
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)Roy Eriksen’s essay asks the question whether the notoriously unattributed The Taming of a Shrew might not in fact bear the trace of Marlowe’s hand. Recognising the tendency of critics to dismiss the play as a mere “bad ... -
"Underplayed Rivalry": Patronage and the Marlovian Subtext of Summer's Last Will and Testament
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)Per Sivefors’s article addresses the issue of Nashe and authorship from the angle of imitation and literary competition. Arguing that Thomas Nashe imitated Marlowe in his only surviving play, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, ... -
Thomas Lodge and Elizabethan Republicanism
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)Andrew Hadfield’s article seeks to locate Thomas Lodge’s The Wounds of Civil War in the context of early modern English republicanism—a context which, Hadfield argues, was also to have a great deal of importance to the ... -
George Chapman's "Oedipus Complex": Intertextual Patterns in The Conspiracy and The Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)Gunilla Florby’s essay situates George Chapman’s two-part play The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron at the intersection between topical reference and classical intertext. In particular, Florby investigates ... -
Disgusting John Marston: Sensationalism and the Limits of a Post-Modern Marston
(Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)Georgia Brown’s article takes issue with the idea, argued by postmodern criticism, that Marston’s dramatic texts are primarily or exclusively loci of parody, playfulness and self-reflexivity. Instead, Brown suggests, we ...
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