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Hamlet, Art and Practicality
(Oxford University Press, 1990)
Throughout Hamlet, the hero shows a persistent fascination with art. Daalder discusses how Hamlet's penchant for the dramatic explains much of his enigmatic and 'mad' behaviour in the play.
Review of "Hospitable Performances: Dramatic Genre and Cultural Practices in Early Modern England" by Palmer
(Oxford University Press, 1995)
Review of Daryl Palmer's book "Hospitable Performances: Dramatic Genre and Cultural Practices in Early Modern England" (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1992).
Review of 'Edward II by Christopher Marlowe' edited by Rowland
(Oxford University Press, 1997)
Review of Richard Rowland's edition of 'Edward II' by Christopher Marlowe (The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe III, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
Middleton and Rowley's "The Changeling"
(Heldref Publications, 1998)
Daalder and Moore focus on Act IV, ii, 89-103, and in particular Jasperino's comment "Like those that challenge interest in a woman" (line 102). The authors explore the possibility that the 'woman' described in this line ...
Review of 'Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare' by Douglas Bruster
(Oxford University Press, 1995)
Review of Douglas Bruster's book, 'Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare' (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 1). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Review of "The Art of Naming" by Ferry
(Oxford University Press, 1991)
A favourable review of Anne Ferry's book "The Art of Naming" (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988). Daalder states that this book makes a valuable contribution to the study of sixteenth-century literature; ...
The Role of Isabella in "The Changeling"
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis group, 1992)
The role of Isabella in "The Changeling" has received remarkably little attention. Even those very few critics who have been sympathetic to the sub plot of the play have in fact said very little about it, and therefore ...
Wyatt’s ‘Patience’ Poems
(Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 1990)
Four poems starting with the word 'patience' are usually thought of as Wyatt's: 'Patience, though I have not', 'Patience for my device', Patience, for I have wrong', and 'Patience of all my smart'. Of these the first two ...
John Fletcher's "The Pilgrim" I.i.122: A Proposed Emendation
(Oxford University Press, 1991)
The most recent edition of "The Pilgrim" (1621) is the one by Cyrus Hoy, in "The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon", vol. vi (gen. ed. Fredson Bowers; Cambridge University Press, 1985). The edition is an ...
R.A.K. Mason's Universality
(Rinsen Books, Kyoto, 1998)
Mason is writing about the plight of man, trapped in a hostile place, i.e. our planet, which, in the space of the universe as a whole, is 'fixed at the friendless outer edge'. Even if perhaps a poet in an isolated country ...