milosc-i-bliskosc: William Shakespeare

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“The course of true love never did run smooth”: The Late Elizabethan Sonnet and Shakespearean Criticism. This paper attempts to uncover some of the reasons why the Elizabethan sonnet sequences have received little critical attention in France. It quickly appears that such neglect might be attributed to the continuing centrality of the Romantic construction of Shakespeare as a sublime figure that embodies Nature and as a “man of the mob” (Richard Wilson). Such a conception has been detrimental to the study of the Elizabethan sonneteers, who have often been seen as poetasters slavishly responding to the requests of powerful patrons by producing artificial, derivative and conventional poems. T…

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"She Never Told Her Love": Embodiment, Textuality, and Silence in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

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Henry VI, Part 2 (1591) is a Shakespearean history play about King Henry VI of England's inability to quell the bickering of his noblemen, the death of his trusted advisor Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and the political rise of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York; it culminates with the First Battle of St Albans (1455), the initial battle of the Wars of the Roses, which were civil wars between the House of Lancaster and the House of York. In the early historical narrative of Henry VI, Part 1 (1591), William Shakespeare deals with the low morale consequent to the loss of England's French territories (1429–1453) during the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) and the political machinations that preci…