Browsing NJES Volume 4, No. 2 (December 2005) by Title

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    • The Taming of a Shrew: Composition as Induction to Authorship 

      Eriksen, Roy (Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)
      Roy Eriksen’s essay asks the question whether the notoriously unattributed The Taming of a Shrew might not in fact bear the trace of Marlowe’s hand. Recognising the tendency of critics to dismiss the play as a mere “bad ...

    • Thomas Lodge and Elizabethan Republicanism 

      Hadfield, Andrew (Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)
      Andrew Hadfield’s article seeks to locate Thomas Lodge’s The Wounds of Civil War in the context of early modern English republicanism—a context which, Hadfield argues, was also to have a great deal of importance to the ...

    • "Underplayed Rivalry": Patronage and the Marlovian Subtext of Summer's Last Will and Testament 

      Sivefors, Per (Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)
      Per Sivefors’s article addresses the issue of Nashe and authorship from the angle of imitation and literary competition. Arguing that Thomas Nashe imitated Marlowe in his only surviving play, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, ...

    • When the Golden Bough Breaks: Folk Drama and the Theatre Historian 

      Pettitt, Tom (Uni-pub, Norway (hard copy), 2005-12)
      The title of Tom Pettitt's essay alludes to the massive impact on theatre historians of Sir James Frazer's monumental work on comparative anthropology, The Golden Bough (1890). It fostered the thesis that English folk drama ...