ShakespearePub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2288605
William David Green
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ShakespearePub Date : 2023-11-27DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2285830
Dalton Greene
{"title":"Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s English History Plays","authors":"Dalton Greene","doi":"10.1080/17450918.2023.2285830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2023.2285830","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Shakespeare (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":42802,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138534396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ShakespearePub Date : 2023-11-27DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2284180
Alexander Thom
{"title":"Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance,","authors":"Alexander Thom","doi":"10.1080/17450918.2023.2284180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2023.2284180","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Shakespeare (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":42802,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138534405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ShakespearePub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2278515
Julia Reinhard Lupton
{"title":"Knowing through Nursing: Edgar and the Exercise of Care in <i>King Lear</i>","authors":"Julia Reinhard Lupton","doi":"10.1080/17450918.2023.2278515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2023.2278515","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn Shakespeare’s late plays, the arts of care push towards sublime horizons of value out of lived ecologies of virtue nourished by global wisdom traditions. To know by nursing is to intuit in and through the intimate tactility of tending to the birth, growth, healing, or dying of another person a sense of purpose and meaning, of telos or goal, yearnings that both sustain and are supported by philosophies, religions, or world views that gain value by being shared with others: ‘What is your study?’KEYWORDS: StoicismSenecaOikeiosisvirtue AcknowledgementMy deep thanks to my partner in spiritual exercise, Unhae Park Langis; to Sheiba Kian Kaufman and Benjamin Parris for pointing me on the track of care; to Miriam Bender, for bibliography and conversations on nursing science; to the two readers and two Special Issue editors of this volume for their generous and helpful readings; and to my physical therapist Dawn Denny and my speech pathologist Teresa Dwight for their care and wisdom.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Citations from King Lear are from Kenneth Muir, ed., King Lear.2 Markham, Country Contentments, frontispiece.3 On Cordelia’s virtue ecology, see Sale, ‘Cordelia’s Fire’. For another ecological reading of the passage, see Archer, Turley and Thomas, ‘The Autumn King’, 518–43.4 On Edgar as romance hero, see Beckwith, Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness, 85–9.5 Murdoch, Metaphysics, 87, 120.6 Ibid., 120–1.7 Parvini, Shakespeare’s Moral Compass, 280–94. On care as a private virtue, see Dolven, ‘Besides Good and Evil’, 12.8 Accessed 29 June 2020. http://www.latin-dictionary.net/definition/15255/cura-curae.9 Heidegger, Being and Time, 184–6; 19; 121, 147; Dreyfuss, Skillful Coping.10 Benner and Chelsea, Expertise in Nursing Practice, 19–20.11 Dreyfus, Dreyfus and Benner, ‘Implications’.12 Parris, Vital Strife, 16.13 Gray, Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic, 58–9.14 Cicero, De Finibus, 19:62.15 Klein, ‘Stoic Argument’, 160.16 Ibid., 162.17 Martha Nussbaum tracks the medical analogy in ancient philosophy, which aimed to transform ‘the inner world of belief and desire through rational argument’ by managing the emotions in their cognitive and evaluative aspect, as ‘forms of intentional awareness’. Therapy of Desire, 77–8.18 On Stoic epistle as preventative medicine, see Gill, ‘Philosophical Therapy’.19 Foucault, Care of the Self, 44–5.20 Sellars, Routledge Handbook to the Stoic Tradition, 1–2.21 Benjamin Parris emphasises the laboring aspects of care in ‘Life and Labor in the House of Care’, 149–65.22 On the wide domain of virtue before the Enlightenment, see Crocker, Matter of Virtue.23 Allman, ‘Is caring a virtue?’ 467.24 Seneca, ‘Letter 75’, 247.25 Hershinow, Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller, 123–4, 131, 190.26 Langis, ‘Humankindness’; on ancient scepticism and Buddhism, see McEvilley, Shape of Ancient Thought.27 Langis links the passage to global wisdom traditions:","PeriodicalId":42802,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134901702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ShakespearePub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2274498
Maria Devlin McNair
{"title":"Shakespeare, Marston, and Getting to Moral Clarity through Comedy","authors":"Maria Devlin McNair","doi":"10.1080/17450918.2023.2274498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2023.2274498","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT‘Uneasy comedy’ can be a surprising source of moral insight. Comedies like John Marston’s The Dutch Courtesan and Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well provoke uneasy laughter, laughter mixed with anxiety and moral concern – concern especially at how characters manipulate and deceive others to achieve certain outcomes. But the characters claim this deception is justified. They argue that their situation calls for a particular moral framework – one based on the achievement of desirable ends, rather than one based on autonomy and consent – and that their actions count as moral within that framework. The issue is that their arguments partially but don’t completely succeed. A key moral piece seems to be missing – but what is it? Is the problem with the characters’ actions or with the framework? To answer that question, we must determine how one would act morally within that framework and when it would be the right one to use. We must ask, essentially, how the story would have to change before we could laugh more freely. Uneasy comedies bring moral clarity through their suggestions about the different moral frameworks called for by different life contexts and what it takes to act worthily within those frameworks.KEYWORDS: All’s Well That Ends WellThe Dutch Courtesanconsentcarecomedyethics AcknowledgementsI am grateful to the readers’ reports on the original draft of this article for directing my attention to new critical sources and new modes of approach to the subject. I also thank Patrick Gray for his feedback on this article.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Henri Bergson (Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic) and Sigmund Freud (Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious) emphasise comedy’s unconcern with or resistance to moral norms. For readings of comedy as subverting or suspending moral codes, see Barton, ‘London Comedy’; Bowers, Radical Comedy; and Bristol, Carnival and Theater. The norms that comedy is said to subvert are often political or sexual. On politics, see Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations, and Stallybrass and White, Politics and Poetics. On sexuality, see Traub, Desire and Anxiety, and Dusinberre, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women.2 Marston, The Dutch Courtesan, Prologue, 1. All citations are from the edition edited by Britland.3 Julian, ‘Our hurtless mirth’, 185–86.4 For a detailed account of the play’s many shifts in mood and tone, see Cordner, ‘The Dutch Courtesan’.5 Feminist criticism in particular reveals how the experience of a play as a comedy – as something happy, pleasing, desirable, etc. – is undermined if it seems to support unethical or otherwise objectionable views. Schwarz’s essay ‘Comedies End in Marriage’ finds that the notion of comedies’ ‘ethical failure’ ironizes the notion of a truly ‘happy ending’ (274–75). For similar readings in relation to sexist humour, sexual polarity, and female subjection in comedy, see Belsey, ‘Disruptin","PeriodicalId":42802,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ShakespearePub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2272943
Anouska Lester
{"title":"Review of William Shakespeare’s <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> (Directed by Elle While for Shakespeare’s Globe), 31 July 2023","authors":"Anouska Lester","doi":"10.1080/17450918.2023.2272943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2023.2272943","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":42802,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135819043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ShakespearePub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2274488
Sally Barnden
{"title":"Review of Shakespeare’s <i>As You Like It</i> (Directed by Ellen McDougall) at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, 8 September 2023","authors":"Sally Barnden","doi":"10.1080/17450918.2023.2274488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2023.2274488","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42802,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135933783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ShakespearePub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2273926
Alexander Thom
{"title":"On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare’s Drama <b>On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare’s Drama</b> , by Sophie E. Battell, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2023, 264 pp., £85 (hardcover), ISBN 9781474475686","authors":"Alexander Thom","doi":"10.1080/17450918.2023.2273926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2023.2273926","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Das, ‘The Stranger at the Door’.2 Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors.3 Kahn, ‘Magic of Bounty’.","PeriodicalId":42802,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135315596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ShakespearePub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2264813
Benedict J. Whalen
{"title":"Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook <b>Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook</b> , edited by Julia Reinhard Lupton and Donovan Sherman, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, xii + 421 pp., $125 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1108843409","authors":"Benedict J. Whalen","doi":"10.1080/17450918.2023.2264813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2023.2264813","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42802,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135739373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}