Michael L. Hays
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Michael L. Hays deposited Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” as a Poetic Emblem on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
This close reading addresses the couplet, puzzling because of its generality, which critics try to constrict by forced specificity. The quatrain-to-quatrain sequence of the image clusters suggests the theme of transitoriness and parallels The Order of The Burial of the Dead in The Book of Common Prayer, which burial ritual justifies the…[Read more]
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Received opinion based on scanty evidence and skimpy arguments holds that race and racism operate in important ways in Othello and Othello’s jealousy. Few specifically race-referential words and only one specifically racist image occur in the play, almost all in the first four scenes.
Brabantio’s, Roderigo’s, and Iago’s views are mistake…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Romancing the Sources: Framing Tales in Hamlet and King Lear on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
Romance as a group of, and label for, some of Shakespeare’s last plays presupposes the influence of later romance kinds, and Shakespeare studies presuppose their influence and preclude the influence of an earlier romance kind, namely, chivalric romance. This sub-genre includes romances like Bevis of Hampton and Guy of Warwick, both popular in S…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Emending Othello; Explaining Othello: A Critique of Contemporary Principles of and Practices in Editing Shakespeare and a Historical-Literary Interpretation of Othello’s Jealousy on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
Modern editors of Othello unanimously and silently adopt the Folio (1623) text as their copy text but emend it in light of the quarto (1622) text at III, iii, 97. Neither of the two reasons for emendation, textual corruption or literary unintelligibility, applies. A critique of textual editing shows that, given knowledge of the many and various…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited A Sense of the Ending: Does Malcolm Earn It? in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis presentation asks whether Macbeth ends literally, as traditional criticism has viewed it, or ironically, as modern criticism would have it. Its answer emphasizes Malcolm’s role by detailing the Court Scene, which tests Malcolm, not MacDuff, to establish his character, legitimacy, and competence to rule. It shows this scene as a turning p…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited A Sense of the Ending: Does Malcolm Earn It? in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis presentation asks whether Macbeth ends literally, as traditional criticism has viewed it, or ironically, as modern criticism would have it. Its answer emphasizes Malcolm’s role by detailing the Court Scene, which tests Malcolm, not MacDuff, to establish his character, legitimacy, and competence to rule. It shows this scene as a turning p…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Saving His Source: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth, IV, iii in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis presentation presents a critical overview and assessment of the pedagogical and critical treatment of the Court Scene, with particular attention to its use in modern political interpretations; places Malcolm in the thematic context established by Holinshed’s comparison of Duncan and Macbeth; puts the scene in the context of the play’s plo…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Saving His Source: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth, IV, iii in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis presentation presents a critical overview and assessment of the pedagogical and critical treatment of the Court Scene, with particular attention to its use in modern political interpretations; places Malcolm in the thematic context established by Holinshed’s comparison of Duncan and Macbeth; puts the scene in the context of the play’s plo…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Sources, Scholarship, and Sense: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago“Sources, Scholarship, and Sense: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth,” , (2003)
This presentation uses an analysis of Shakespeare’s primary source as a means to disclose modifications and retentions for the purpose of achieving both dramatic and narrative ends. Establishing the identity of “Bellona’s Bridegroome” as MacDuff enabl…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Sources, Scholarship, and Sense: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago“Sources, Scholarship, and Sense: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth,” , (2003)
This presentation uses an analysis of Shakespeare’s primary source as a means to disclose modifications and retentions for the purpose of achieving both dramatic and narrative ends. Establishing the identity of “Bellona’s Bridegroome” as MacDuff enabl…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited A Sense of the Ending: Does Malcolm Earn It? on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
This presentation asks whether Macbeth ends literally, as traditional criticism has viewed it, or ironically, as modern criticism would have it. Its answer emphasizes Malcolm’s role by detailing the Court Scene, which tests Malcolm, not MacDuff, to establish his character, legitimacy, and competence to rule. It shows this scene as a turning p…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Saving His Source: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth, IV, iii on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
This presentation presents a critical overview and assessment of the pedagogical and critical treatment of the Court Scene, with particular attention to its use in modern political interpretations; places Malcolm in the thematic context established by Holinshed’s comparison of Duncan and Macbeth; puts the scene in the context of the play’s plo…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Sources, Scholarship, and Sense: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
“Sources, Scholarship, and Sense: Shakespeare’s Use of Holinshed in Macbeth,” , (2003)
This presentation uses an analysis of Shakespeare’s primary source as a means to disclose modifications and retentions for the purpose of achieving both dramatic and narrative ends. Establishing the identity of “Bellona’s Bridegroome” as MacDuff enabl…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Shakespeare’s Hand in “Sir Thomas More”-Some Aspects of the Paleographic Argument in the group
Sir Thomas More ms. on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoReviews arguments for identifying Shakespeare’s handwriting to the handwriting of Addition IIc in the Sir Thomas More ms. and, by reference to the concept of a control as the indispensable requirement for such comparison, finds the arguments not only instances of special pleading, but a failure to satisfy this fundamental requirement. Urges…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Shakespeare’s Hand in “Sir Thomas More”-Some Aspects of the Paleographic Argument in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoReviews arguments for identifying Shakespeare’s handwriting to the handwriting of Addition IIc in the Sir Thomas More ms. and, by reference to the concept of a control as the indispensable requirement for such comparison, finds the arguments not only instances of special pleading, but a failure to satisfy this fundamental requirement. Urges…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited Review of The Dark Ages and the Age of Gold, by Russell Fraser in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoAssesses the characterization and distinctions between the medieval and renaissance periods, and finds them deficient and the supporting scholarship superficial.
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Michael L. Hays deposited A Bibliography of Dramatic Adaptations of Medieval Romances and Renaissance Chivalric Romances First Available in English through 1616 in the group
Shakespearean Dramatic Genres on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis bibliography is divided into three parts. The first two parts encompass medieval romances first available in English before 1558. Part I includes romances by unknown or little-known authors or translators which others, as noted, regard as romances. Part II includes romances by those who are well known: Caxton, Chaucer, Gower, Henryson,…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited A Bibliography of Dramatic Adaptations of Medieval Romances and Renaissance Chivalric Romances First Available in English through 1616 in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis bibliography is divided into three parts. The first two parts encompass medieval romances first available in English before 1558. Part I includes romances by unknown or little-known authors or translators which others, as noted, regard as romances. Part II includes romances by those who are well known: Caxton, Chaucer, Gower, Henryson,…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited A Bibliography of Dramatic Adaptations of Medieval Romances and Renaissance Chivalric Romances First Available in English through 1616 in the group
Medieval English Literature on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis bibliography is divided into three parts. The first two parts encompass medieval romances first available in English before 1558. Part I includes romances by unknown or little-known authors or translators which others, as noted, regard as romances. Part II includes romances by those who are well known: Caxton, Chaucer, Gower, Henryson,…[Read more]
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Michael L. Hays deposited King Horn: A Prose Rendition (Adapted and Annotated) in the group
Medieval English Literature on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoA prose rendering of the earliest English medieval romance, adapted into chapters, annotated throughout, with an introduction.
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