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Research paper thumbnail of Representing Othello: Early modern jury trials and the equitable judgments of tragedy

Othello: New Critical Essays, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Partial Views: Literary Allusion, Teleological Form, and Contingent Readings in Hamlet

Shakespeare and Historical Formalism, ed. Stephen Cohen, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of “Irreligious Piety”and Christian History: Persecution as Pagan Anachronism in Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare Quarterly, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Dualistic Macbeth? Problematic Macbeth?

Macbeth: New Critical Essays, ed. Nick Moschovakis, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Macbeth in Texts by and about African Americans, 1903–1944: Race and the Problematics of Allusive Identification

Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, ed. Scott Newstok & Ayanna Thompson, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Topicality And Conceptual Blending: Titus Andronicus and The Case of William Hacket

Research paper thumbnail of Tennessee Williams's American Blues: From the Early Manuscripts Through _Menagerie_

Tennessee Williams Annual Review, 2005

R acial issues do not often arise explicitly in the Williams canon, at least by comparison with t... more R acial issues do not often arise explicitly in the Williams canon, at least by comparison with those of other major Southern writers (Bigsby 98; Adler 4; Kolin, "Race" 204). Whereas African-American characters rarely appear in Williams's writings, and even more rarely participate in the main action of his plays, it is not so hard to find him alluding to music performed by African Americans, or derived from African-American traditions. Williams's writings from the 1930s contain various representations of black singers, as in the posthumously published story "Big Black: A Mississippi Idyll," as well as in unpublished drafts of fiction, verse, and drama. Blues music is specifically called for in the early full-length play Fugitive Kind, in the early one-act play Hello From Bertha, and later in Orpheus Descending. During the 1940s, Williams wrote lyrics that he called "folkverse," and that either included the word "Blues" in their titles, or else imitated the dialects and stanzaic forms of blues songs; another of these poems paid homage to African-American spirituals. Jazz and swing music inspired both the subject and the method of one of Williams's first free-verse experiments, the poem "Tenor Sax Taking the Breaks." Later, he would employ "hot swing" thematically in The Glass Menagerie. The scripts of Battle of Angels, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof all expressly provide for music made by African

Research paper thumbnail of Great Period: Pointing, Syntax, and the Millennium in the Texts of "At a Solemn Musick

Research paper thumbnail of The Idylls of the Bard

Research paper thumbnail of The Magic Tower: An Unpublished One-Act Play by Tennessee Williams

Resources for American Literary Study, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Jungle, or Walter Finds the Pearl: A Previously Unpublished One-Act Play by Tennessee Williams

Resources for American Literary Study, 2009

Book Reviews by Nick Moschovakis

Research paper thumbnail of Craig Kallendorf , The Other Virgil: Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture (review)

Modern Philology, 2012

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

Research paper thumbnail of Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard (review)

Research paper thumbnail of The Improbability of “Othello”: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood by Joel B. Altman (review)

Shakespeare Quarterly, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Discontinuities: New Essays on Renaissance Literature and Criticism by Viviana Comensoli and Paul Stevens (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Early Responses to Renaissance Drama by Charles Whitney (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright by Patrick Cheney (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Tennessee Williams and the Ambivalence of Success (review article)

Research paper thumbnail of Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity by Colin Burrow (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Shakespeare and Violence (review)

Shakespeare Quarterly, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Representing Othello: Early modern jury trials and the equitable judgments of tragedy

Othello: New Critical Essays, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Partial Views: Literary Allusion, Teleological Form, and Contingent Readings in Hamlet

Shakespeare and Historical Formalism, ed. Stephen Cohen, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of “Irreligious Piety”and Christian History: Persecution as Pagan Anachronism in Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare Quarterly, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Dualistic Macbeth? Problematic Macbeth?

Macbeth: New Critical Essays, ed. Nick Moschovakis, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Macbeth in Texts by and about African Americans, 1903–1944: Race and the Problematics of Allusive Identification

Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, ed. Scott Newstok & Ayanna Thompson, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Topicality And Conceptual Blending: Titus Andronicus and The Case of William Hacket

Research paper thumbnail of Tennessee Williams's American Blues: From the Early Manuscripts Through _Menagerie_

Tennessee Williams Annual Review, 2005

R acial issues do not often arise explicitly in the Williams canon, at least by comparison with t... more R acial issues do not often arise explicitly in the Williams canon, at least by comparison with those of other major Southern writers (Bigsby 98; Adler 4; Kolin, "Race" 204). Whereas African-American characters rarely appear in Williams's writings, and even more rarely participate in the main action of his plays, it is not so hard to find him alluding to music performed by African Americans, or derived from African-American traditions. Williams's writings from the 1930s contain various representations of black singers, as in the posthumously published story "Big Black: A Mississippi Idyll," as well as in unpublished drafts of fiction, verse, and drama. Blues music is specifically called for in the early full-length play Fugitive Kind, in the early one-act play Hello From Bertha, and later in Orpheus Descending. During the 1940s, Williams wrote lyrics that he called "folkverse," and that either included the word "Blues" in their titles, or else imitated the dialects and stanzaic forms of blues songs; another of these poems paid homage to African-American spirituals. Jazz and swing music inspired both the subject and the method of one of Williams's first free-verse experiments, the poem "Tenor Sax Taking the Breaks." Later, he would employ "hot swing" thematically in The Glass Menagerie. The scripts of Battle of Angels, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof all expressly provide for music made by African

Research paper thumbnail of Great Period: Pointing, Syntax, and the Millennium in the Texts of "At a Solemn Musick

Research paper thumbnail of The Idylls of the Bard

Research paper thumbnail of The Magic Tower: An Unpublished One-Act Play by Tennessee Williams

Resources for American Literary Study, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Jungle, or Walter Finds the Pearl: A Previously Unpublished One-Act Play by Tennessee Williams

Resources for American Literary Study, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Craig Kallendorf , The Other Virgil: Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture (review)

Modern Philology, 2012

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

Research paper thumbnail of Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard (review)

Research paper thumbnail of The Improbability of “Othello”: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood by Joel B. Altman (review)

Shakespeare Quarterly, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Discontinuities: New Essays on Renaissance Literature and Criticism by Viviana Comensoli and Paul Stevens (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Early Responses to Renaissance Drama by Charles Whitney (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright by Patrick Cheney (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Tennessee Williams and the Ambivalence of Success (review article)

Research paper thumbnail of Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity by Colin Burrow (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Shakespeare and Violence (review)

Shakespeare Quarterly, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950

Sixteenth Century Journal, 1998

... Preface, Contributors, Introduction: 1. Elias, Foucault, Oestereich: on a historical theory o... more ... Preface, Contributors, Introduction: 1. Elias, Foucault, Oestereich: on a historical theory of confinement Norbert Finzsch, 2. Four centuries of prison history: punishment, suffering, the body, and power Pieter Spierenburg, Part I. Hospitals and Asylums: 3. The transformation of the ...