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Perspectives of Madness in Twelfth Night
(Routledge Press, a part of the Taylor and Francis group, 1997)Shakespeare uses such words as 'mad' and 'madness' more often in Twelfth Night than in any of his other plays, so it is a reasonable assumption that he was interested in madness when he wrote it, and that this play will ... -
The Pre-history of Beatrice and Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing"
(Routledge, 2004)In "Much Ado About Nothing", Shakespeare implies in a fascinating way that before the main action of the play there was what Daalder calls a 'pre-history', namely a story of an earlier involvement between Benedick and ... -
Review of "Breaking Boundaries: Politics and Play in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries" by Molly Smith
(Parergon, 2000)Review of Molly Smith's book, 'Breaking Boundaries: Politics and Play in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries' (Aldershot, 1998). -
Review of "Defining Shakespeare: 'Pericles' as Test Case" by Macdonald Jackson
(Oxford University Press, 2005)A favourable review of Macdonald P. Jackson's book, "Defining Shakespeare: 'Pericles' as Test Case", (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). -
Review of "Hamlet and Japan" by Yoshiko Ueno, and "Otherwordly Hamlet" by John O'Meara
(Oxford University Press, 1997)Much of 'Hamlet and Japan' is, in fact, devoted to exactly such criticism as one might find in Western compilations offering recent approaches to a Shakespeare play. -
Review of "Puritans and Libertines: Anglo-French Literary Relations in the Reformation" by Richmond
(Oxford University Press, 1984)Review of H.M. Richmond's book "Puritans and Libertines: Anglo-French Literary Relations in the Reformation" (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1981). This book, according to Daalder, is a ... -
Review of "Shakespeare and the Classics" edited by Martindale and Taylor
(Oxford University Press, 2005)A favourable review of "Shakespeare and the Classics", edited by Charles Martindale and A.B. Taylor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). -
Review of "Shakespeare and the Hunt: A Cultural and Social Study" by Edward Berry
(Oxford University Press, 2001)A favourable review of Edward Berry's book, "Shakespeare and the Hunt", (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). -
Review of "Shakespeare's Legal Language: A Dictionary" by B J Sokol and Mary Sokol
(Oxford University Press, 2001)Review of BJ and Mary Sokol's book, "Shakespeare's Legal Language: A Dictionary",(The Athlone Shakespeare Dictionary Series). London: Athlone Press, 2000. -
Review of "The Complete Poems" by Barnfield and Klawitter
(Oxford University Press, 1993)A favourable review of "The Complete Poems" by Richard Barnfield, edited by George Klawitter (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1990). Daalder also briefly reviews ... -
Review of "Tragic conditions in Shakespeare: disinheriting the globe" by Paul A Kottman
(Oxford University Press, 2010-05-27)Professor Kottman has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking book. It addresses very major issues, in what is for the most part quite an original way, and I found much of what I read illuminating. His main concern is ... -
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 'Hamlet and Japan' edited by Yoshiko Ueno
(Oxford University Press, 1997)Review of 'Hamlet and Japan', edited by Yoshiko Ueno (vol.2 of The Hamlet Collection; New York, 1995). Additionally, Daalder also briefly discusses 'Otherwordly Hamlet' by John O'Meara, as a complementary work to 'Hamlet ... -
Review of 'Shakespeare's Military Language: A Dictionary' by Charles Edelman
(Parergon, 2000)Review of Edelman's book, 'Shakespeare's Military Language: A Dictionary' (London, 2000). -
Senecan Influence on Shylock's "Hath Not a Jew Eyes?" Speech
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis group, 1984)In this paper, Professor Daalder is at least as concerned with what he considers to be the beneficial impact of Seneca on Shakespeare (in one important speech), as with the mere fact of Shakespeare's debt to the Roman author. -
Shakespeare's "King Lear", 4.2.47-51
(Heldref Publications, 2001)Two versions of the IV.ii.47-51 passage are quoted from Alexander's and Foakes's editions because the editorial punctuation of the two texts clearly reflects two quite different interpretations of the passage: in the first, ... -
Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece"
(Heldref Publications, 1997)There is at present a tendency in some criticism to argue that Lucrece is one of many women in sixteenth- and seventeenth century literature who, as Deborah G. Burks puts it in a recent essay, "have internalized th[e] sense ... -
Shakespeare's attitude to gender in Macbeth
(Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 1988-11)With the new interest in 'women's studies' there has been a whole flurry of works devoted to the question whether Shakespeare in any significant way discriminated against - or in favour of - women. -
The Text of “King Lear” 2.2.136-145 in the ‘Arden 3’ Edition
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2002)This paper considers the nature of R. A. Foakes's approach to editing 'King Lear', and how the latest Arden edition may be improved so as to bring it closer to what Shakespeare is likely to have written. -
The Thatched Visor in "Much Ado About Nothing" and Viola's Beard in "Twelfth Night" [pre-print version]
(2004)In this article, Daalder demonstrates that Shakespeare was capable of using the word "beard" as a euphemism for pubic hair, both male and female, and this fact is relevant to our interpretation of Don Pedro's "thatched" ...