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Murat Öğütcü deposited Julius Caesar: Tyrannicide Made Unpopular in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe late Elizabethan Period was marked by socio-economic discontent. Amid this,
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1599) featured a prominent debate: whether or not
tyrannicide could solve problems. Around 1599, Essex formulated a like-minded
political revolution only to dismiss it until 1601. Yet, as providentialist and
republican debates failed t…[Read more] -
Murat Öğütcü deposited Julius Caesar: Tyrannicide Made Unpopular in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe late Elizabethan Period was marked by socio-economic discontent. Amid this,
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1599) featured a prominent debate: whether or not
tyrannicide could solve problems. Around 1599, Essex formulated a like-minded
political revolution only to dismiss it until 1601. Yet, as providentialist and
republican debates failed t…[Read more] -
Bradley Irish deposited Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court: The Douglas-Howard Lyrics in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492) in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoBL Additional MS 17492, the so-called Devonshire Manuscript of Henrician courtly verse, is a prime example of how social and cultural phenomena contributed to early modern manuscript culture. Among the treasures of the Devonshire MS is a series of lyrics that chronicles a fascinating courtly intrigue of the 1530s: the illicit, clandestine marriage…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Kent Cartwright deposited Humanist Reading and Interpretation in Early Elizabethan Morality Drama in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoThis essay argues that humanist reading practices, methods of analysis, and aesthetics transformed traditional morality drama in the 1560s and 1570s in a way that accounts for the form’s resurgence. The essay looks closely at Ulpian Fulwell’s “Like Will to Like” (1568), William Wager’s “The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art” (1569) and…[Read more]
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Kent Cartwright deposited Humanist Reading and Interpretation in Early Elizabethan Morality Drama in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoThis essay argues that humanist reading practices, methods of analysis, and aesthetics transformed traditional morality drama in the 1560s and 1570s in a way that accounts for the form’s resurgence. The essay looks closely at Ulpian Fulwell’s “Like Will to Like” (1568), William Wager’s “The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art” (1569) and…[Read more]
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David Palmer created the doc New Anthology on Tragedy in Modern American Drama in the group
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: RiDE / Digital Shakespeare
William Shakespeare holds a unique position within education: few other cultural entities can claim to match the range of contact across ages, disciplines and countries that his work, life and cultural impact have produced. The diversity of pedagogical approaches to Shakespeare, therefore, is enormous, a diversity…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years agoA focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoA focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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Lauren Coats started the topic GS Travel Writing: CFP MLA 2019: Commemorating Travel in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe CFP for this forum’s 2019 MLA panel is out. Please consider submitting:
*Commemorating Travel*
The circulations, aesthetics, politics of material artefacts of travel and travel writing throughout history: books and blogs, photos and Facebook, Tshirts and mementos. 250-word abstracts, cv by 12 March 2018; Lauren Coats (lac@lsu.edu). -
George Prokhorov deposited FROM EYEWITNESS NARRATIVES TO RETELLINGS AND LITERARY ADAPTATIONS: THE RUSSIAN TIME OF TROUBLES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe article focuses on the adaptation strategies used by Lope de Vega in his play El Gran Duque de Moscovia y emperador perseguido (1617). This tragedy, built on material acquired from travelogues, represents the first depiction of the Russian Time of Troubles in fiction. In it, one can follow Lope de Vega’s shift from preserving the factual d…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited FROM EYEWITNESS NARRATIVES TO RETELLINGS AND LITERARY ADAPTATIONS: THE RUSSIAN TIME OF TROUBLES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe article focuses on the adaptation strategies used by Lope de Vega in his play El Gran Duque de Moscovia y emperador perseguido (1617). This tragedy, built on material acquired from travelogues, represents the first depiction of the Russian Time of Troubles in fiction. In it, one can follow Lope de Vega’s shift from preserving the factual d…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited On Judges and the Art of Judicature: Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the late sixteenth century, the common law experienced a phenomenal growth, both in the number of practitioners and jurisdictional power. A comparison of popular and professional literature on legal administration or judicature reveals the complex and ambivalent cultural response to the “rise” of the common law. Despite the usual praise for the…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited On Judges and the Art of Judicature: Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the late sixteenth century, the common law experienced a phenomenal growth, both in the number of practitioners and jurisdictional power. A comparison of popular and professional literature on legal administration or judicature reveals the complex and ambivalent cultural response to the “rise” of the common law. Despite the usual praise for the…[Read more]
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