ENGL 472: Readings in Shakespearean Criticism

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¨      David Underdown, “The Taming of a Scold” 

 

¨      Louis Montrose, “’Shaping Fantasies’:  Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture”

 

¨      Catherine Belsey, “Disrupting Sexual Difference:  Meaning and Gender in the Comedies”

 

¨       Karen Newman, “Renaissance Family Politics and The Taming of the Shrew”

 

¨      Peter Rudnytsky, “’The dark and vicious place’:  The Dread of the Vagina in King Lear”

 

¨      Dennis Biggins, “Sexuality, Witchcraft, and Violence in Macbeth”

 

¨      Karen Newman, “’And Wash the Ethiop White’”

 

¨      Judith Buchanan, “Virgin and Ape, Venetian and Infidel:  Labellings of Otherness in Parker’s Othello”

 

¨      Barker and Hulme, "’Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish’:  The Discursive Contexts of The Tempest”

 

 

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472 Description | 472 Requirements |  472 Syllabus |