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Seeing the Spider: The Jealous Rage of Exchange in The Winter’s Tale and Othello

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Innes P.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2016

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issue 25/3

69-80

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A venerable critical tradition has long ﬂavoured the reception of Shakespeare’s plays with psychology. Characters are read as real people, and as a consequence, the plays are analysed from the starting point of an individual character’s inward personality. However, this literary reading of the plays fails to take into account not only the performance of character on the Renaissance stage but also the theatrical culture that predetermines forms of characterisation for that audience. The playing of roles within this drama needs to be continually re-investigated, and in the case of The Winter’s Tale and Othello, fully reimagined. The conventional ascription of the plot development entirely to the jealousy of both Leontes and Othello can accordingly be reworked. The modern obsession with psychology obscures a ﬁeld of semantic forces that goes well beyond the purview of any individual to a social encoding of possible behaviours. This restores multiple potentialities to the plays in performance, freeing them from a narrow insistence that meaning is rooted entirely in the individual. This in turn provides a context for deeper analysis of gender roles and how they intersect with the impetus generated by patriarchal modes of inheritance.

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“Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and gown”: William Shakespeare and the Language of Disguise

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Dale J.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2016

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issue 25/3

81-95

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William Shakespeare’s use of theatrical disguise can be assessed through the discourses his disguised characters employ, having signiﬁcant ramiﬁcations at a socio-political, linguistic and metatheatrical level. In illustrating this view, I will explore the role(s) of Edgar in King Lear, drawing on the views of Stephen Greenblatt, Mikhail Bahktin and Ludwig Wittgenstein. I will then examine my conclusions and align them to Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale and Feste in Twelfth Night, while determining whether any recurring socio-political, linguistic and metatheatrical patterns emerge. Finally, I will determine whether it is possible to formulate a strategy of a language of disguise as Shakespeare saw it.

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The Law as Presented in the Polish Renditions of William Shakespeare’s "The Winter’s Tale"

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Jaworska-Biskup K.

Acta Neophilologica

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2021

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vol. XXIII/1

259-278

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This paper addresses the topic of the law and legal vocabulary in William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and its Polish translations. Focus has been directed towards the trial scene of Hermione, one of the major characters of this play. By comparing the Polish renditions of the scene against the English original, the article attempts to present how Polish translators have reflected on the law as presented by Shakespeare and whether they have managed to recreate the law-embedded images and reconstruct the legal language of the source text in the target culture.

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Seeing the Spider: The Jealous Rage of Exchange in The Winter’s Tale and Othello

“Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and gown”: William Shakespeare and the Language of Disguise

The Law as Presented in the Polish Renditions of William Shakespeare’s "The Winter’s Tale"