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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 207–223.
Published: 01 September 1987
... a secret fear. They then transform the imagined sexual infidelity of their wives into a fear of chaos. Because patriarchal social for- mations invest female sexual fidelity with the responsibility for familial stability, Othello and Leontes comprehend chaos in gen- dered terms that fortify...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (1): 3–22.
Published: 01 March 1972
... there are resonances of both the vegetation myth and the Christian drama of redemption in the play, and I am not about to deny that this scheme of death and rebirth or fall and redemption is to be found in it. Leontes does sin against Hermione by doubting her chastity and fidelity, and he commits blasphemy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 340–355.
Published: 01 September 1969
.... 342 THE WINTER’S TALE In its dramatic context, Perdita’s suspicion of art can be seen as a distanced comment, a pastoral reflection, on the disastrous abuse of art in Leontes’ court sixteen years earlier. The theory of art represented...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 117–131.
Published: 01 March 2009
... himself] howe Lyontes the kinge of Cicillia was overcome wth Ielosy of his wife [Hermione] with the kinge of Bohemia [Polixenes] his frind that came to see him. and howe he Contriued his death. . . . Remember also howe [Leontes] sent to the Orakell of appollo...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (4): 347–367.
Published: 01 December 1985
... immediacy that it seems to escape time entirely. This experience of the Now, and all its apparent eternity, infuses Polixenes’ description of the childhood innocence that he and Leontes shared: We were, fair queen, Two lads that thought...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (4): 579–603.
Published: 01 December 1996
... the beginning of The Winter’s Tale Leontes, Hermione, and their son, Mamillius, enter together. Hermione is nine months preg- nant. With the advantage of hindsight, we know that she is about to give birth to a daughter. An emblematic nuclear family-father, mother, son, daughter-is about to come...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (1): 80–85.
Published: 01 March 1966
... that Broadbent himself takes his own critical views very seriously. After quoting a poem by Roy Fuller which thanks Shakespeare for revelations about homosexual motives in Leontes and Brutus and incestuous impulses in Cordelia, Broadbent develops a reading of King Lear along these lines...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (4): 392–393.
Published: 01 December 1976
.... LEONT. DICKINSON University of Missouri, Columbia The Dialectics of Isolation: Self and Society in the French Novel from the Realists to Proust. By RICHARDTERDIMAN. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Romanic Studies, Second Series, 25, 1976. xvi + 265 pp. $12.50...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 51–74.
Published: 01 March 2019
... . . . ” (1.1.39)—is a calamity for Leontes, but it also shifts the burden of dynastic succession to the heiress, Perdita, who is herself “lost” in due course. As in Cymbeline , inheritance in The Winter’s Tale follows a logic of substitution: Perdita takes the place of Mamillius (and Hermione also takes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (4): 393–395.
Published: 01 December 1976
... caught the several typographical errors, a misquotation (p. I14), misspelled proper names (pp. 136, 229), and the dislocation (by one number) of the footnote numerals on the book’s final page. LEONT. DICKINSON University of Missouri, Columbia...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 246–249.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., forgiveness, and redemption saturates Pericles , The Tempest , and The Winter’s Tale . Bate observes that many Shakespearean characters exhibit “cognitive scepticism”: Claudio, Leontes, Othello, Macbeth—“the examples could be multiplied a hundredfold” (237). By smoothing out the small and great...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (2): 187–198.
Published: 01 June 1974
... bittersweet ending, McFarland notes how much the attack on pastoral bliss is focused against childhood, and how powerfully the play conveys Shakespeare’s recognition of life’s ability to create misery. “The reason for such molten torment [as Leontes ex- presses] may seem, to an industrious...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 15–28.
Published: 01 March 1968
... 25 comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, works toward the discov- ery of true identity without the tragic catastrophe.l8 The errors which such protagonists as Leontes and Prosper0 make at the crossroads of selfdefinition do not entail their destruction; they are allowed to re...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (1): 3–22.
Published: 01 March 1989
... or the maintenance of her husband in a perpetual state of jealous watchfulness. This casting of Bassanio as a prototype of Leontes would be appalling if we were allowed to take it at all (or more than one percent, say) seriously. But the basic joke is holding up well and proving fertile ground for new...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (4): 505–529.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., Women, and French Romanticism 527 to Hermione, her mother and the play’s main female character, Perdita appears only in act 4, scene 3. (Hermione, who is not included in the Galerie, is suspected of infidelity, despised, and rejected by her distrust- ful husband, Leontes, only to return...