Milton and the Restoration: Some Reassessments Clay Daniel Published in Connotations Vol. 11.2-3 (2001/02) Milton during the Restoration is usually seen as a distressed poet who, reeling from cultural shock, abandons public activity, especially political activity, to withdraw “into regions of the mind”?1) My reassessment of this perspective is twofold. […]
Tragic Closure in Hamlet Laury Magnus Published in Connotations Vol. 11.2-3 (2001/02) “A was a man, take him for all in all: ⁄ I shall not look upon his like again” (1.2.187−88).42) Hamlet’s thoughts about his departed father may well be recalled by many in the audience upon hearing Horatio’s […]
Gilding Loam and Painting Lilies: Shakespeare’s Scruple of Gold Gabriel Egan Published in Connotations Vol. 11.2-3 (2001/02) Unlike his contemporaries John Lyly (Gallathea), Ben Jonson (The Alchemist), and Thomas Middleton (Anything for a Quiet Life), Shakespeare wrote no play featuring an alchemist.51) Renaissance alchemy had a practical end, the transmutation […]
Camusian Revolt and the Making of Character: Falconbridge in Shakespeare’s King John Val Morgan Published in Connotations Vol. 11.2-3 (2001/02) If thou didst but consent To this most cruel act, do but despair, And if thou want’st a cord, the smallest thread That ever spider twisted from her womb Will […]
Foreign Appetites and Alterity: Is there an Irish Context for Titus Andronicus?96) Joan Fitzpatrick Published in Connotations Vol. 11.2-3 (2001/02) This essay is concerned with foreign appetites, particularly those related to food consumption and sexual behaviour depicted as physically or morally reprehensible or strange. These appetites operate as distinct indications […]
Response to Alan Latta, “Spinell and Connie: Joyce Carol Oates Re-Imaging Thomas Mann” Rodney Symington Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) Alan Latta argued in his essay that Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (1966) is a “re−imagining” of Thomas Mann’s novella “Tristan” […]
Conrad, Capitalism, and Decay Christoph Lindner Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) This essay examines Conrad’s vision of decay in The Secret Agent (1907) to argue that the novel expresses acute anxieties over capitalism’s decadent social and material effects. Set in the seedy underworld and grimy back−streets of London in […]
Another View on The Turn of the Screw Ursula Brumm Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) Professor Edward Lobb in his essay “The Turn of the Screw, King Lear, and Tragedy” has drawn attention to a striking similarity between Henry James’s story and Shakespeare’s tragedy by pointing to “six ‘nothings’ […]
Narrative, Typology and Politics in Henry Vaughan’s “Isaac’s Marriage” Alan Rudrum Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) “Isaac’s Marriage” has attracted some attention as the only poem of the 1650 Silex Scintillans that was revised for the 1655 edition. A reviewer of my edition of Vaughan’s Complete Poems asked “Who […]
Shakespeare De-witched: A Response to Stephen Greenblatt Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 11.1 (2001/02) The following response was written some three years ago and sent, successively, to the editors of some of the most likely journals who were, however, “unable to accept it for publication; [because] it is not […]
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