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Asinine Heroism and the Mediation of Empire in Chaucer, Marlowe, and Shakespeare
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 319–347.
Published: 01 September 2020
... self-referentially ensures that his two Theseuses, one ambivalent and one highly flawed, are inseparable. 9 No possibility of later redemption remains open to Theseus, because the Theseus of the Legend appears to have lived after as well as before the Theseus of The Knight’s Tale...
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Order and the Noble Life in Chaucer's Knight's Tale?
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 March 1973
... or the other. He is an admirable guide to
this first tale of the pilgrimage, and he has many followers. For instance,
Robert Jordan acknowledges a debt to Muscatine and says: “To ob-
serve that Theseus’ oration culminates the thematic development of the
tale and translates nobility of life...
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“Auctoritee” And the Knight's Tale
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (1): 3–14.
Published: 01 March 1978
...Stewart Justman Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 “AUCTORITEE” AND THE KNIGHT’S TALE
By STEWARTJUSTMAN
In 1967 Robert Jordan wrote, “To observe that Theseus’ oration
culminates the thematic development of the [Knight’s...
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Discordia Concors on the Order of A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (1): 20–41.
Published: 01 March 1987
... in John Vyvyan, Shakespeare
and Platonic Beauty (London: Chatto 8c Windus, 1961), pp. 77-91. and, briefly, in Frank
Kermode, Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne: Renaissance Essays (London: Routledge 8c Kegan Paul,
1971), pp. 207-9, and Howard Nemerov, "The Marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta," KR, 18...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream the Illusion of Drama
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (4): 506–522.
Published: 01 December 1965
...
the contrasting leads of Theseus and Hippolyta in their responses to
the lovers’ story of the night. From the standpoint of cool reason,
Theseus dismisses the lovers’ story as an amusing and rather charming
instance of how strong imagination plays tricks with reality. Thus
Pepys dismisses the product...
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A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 March 1964
.... Such, then, is the permissive nature of
the conflict between Boethius and Lady Philosophy in the realm of philo-
sophical discussion; between Palamon and Arcite on the one hand, and
Theseus on the other, in the hierarchical order of society; and between
worldly and heavenly love in Troilus and Criseyde...
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Artistic Ambivalence in Chaucer's “Knight's Tale”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 112–115.
Published: 01 March 1970
... bears down heavily on “incongruities” and
logical inconsistencies, and manages to find a great many more than I would
have thought of, including a fair number about which I think he is wrong.
For example, he uses as a test case Palamon’s line to Theseus: “I am thilke
woful Palamoun...
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Keats's Saturn: Person or Statue?
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (3): 253–257.
Published: 01 September 1953
... 257
In any event, the sphinxes are as close parallels to Keats’s Saturn
as is the statue of Theseus (an Elgin marble), which Stephen Larra-
bee judged to have been the poet’s inspiration.12 The Elgin Theseus
maintains a semireclining position, leaning far backward-quite
different from...
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Nobilis or A View of the Life and Death of a Sidney, and Lessus Lugubris
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (3): 506–510.
Published: 01 September 1941
... that his sister Mary was fatally ill (fol. 19.) :
“Quis Socrates, Democritus, Theseus, imo Hercules (quem duri
celebrant labores) ad tantam malorum panegyrin non horresceret ?
Quis vnius tam eximiz sororis morbum, tam celsorum parentum
interitum ferre potuit ? Solus Philippus noster, qui...
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The Swan at the Well: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (4): 450–452.
Published: 01 December 1985
... 45 1
ter. Comparison of the play to the poem has in the past been largely
confined to pointing out the similarities in the relations of Theseus to the
lovers. Donaldson delves deeper to deal with the general theme of the
irresponsibility of romantic love, which he finds comical in both...
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Shores of Darkness
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 338–340.
Published: 01 June 1942
... and the additional virtue of
being interpretable on at least two levels of meaning. Hungerford
does real service in showing for the first time the incidence of the
Theseus and Ariadne legend in Endymion, and in showing how
Shelley reworked the Venus-Adonis story in Adonais. In general
I think...
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English Renaissance Tragedy.
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (2): 186–188.
Published: 01 June 1987
...
with his conclusion that their play “dramatises the tragic potentialities of
Theseus’s court” (p. 198), in part because he centers his comparison less on
social homologies between the two plays than on the dramatic symbol of
monstrous union-between Titania and Oberon in the one play and be-
tween...
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Nabokov: The Dimensions of Parody
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 210–212.
Published: 01 June 1979
... is
more often than not both Daedalus and Theseus-and we can learn a lot from
both of him.
ROBERTF. GLECKNER
Duke University
Nabokov: The Dimensions of Parody. By DABNEYSTUART. Baton Rouge and Lon-
don: Louisiana State University Press...
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Poetic Patterns in Rutebeuf: A Study in Noncourtly Poetic Modes of the Thirteenth Century
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (1): 67–69.
Published: 01 March 1972
... of busines+the Brookian acrobatics and pregnant
pauses, Puck on stilts, actors doubling as Theseus/Oberon and Hip-
polytall’itania-legitimate realizations of Shakespeare’s text? Or does
tlie sheer self-conficlent thrust of this production, aided by the s~perb
clarity...
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Tragic Closure and “Tragic Calm”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (1): 5–24.
Published: 01 March 1990
... devotees, the Bacchantes. Sometimes their
appearance is principally to promote their own interests: Athena
defends Apollo’s actions in the Ion; in The Suppliants she demands
compensation from the Argives for Theseus’s recovering the bod-
ies, a recompense which Theseus had himself forgone; Thetis...
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How the Classics Made Shakespeare
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 246–249.
Published: 01 June 2020
... or a verse’s syntax end up flattened. Bate writes insightfully about the force of the imagination, his key evidence being Theseus’s speech about “the lunatic, the lover, and the poet” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (5.1.1–17). But there is little of John Keats’s negative capability here: everything comes down...
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The Subterfuge of Art: Language and the Romantic Tradition
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 207–210.
Published: 01 June 1979
... and Theseus-and we can learn a lot from
both of him.
ROBERTF. GLECKNER
Duke University
Nabokov: The Dimensions of Parody. By DABNEYSTUART. Baton Rouge and Lon-
don: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. xiv + 191 pp. $1 1.95...
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Style
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (1): 69–72.
Published: 01 March 1972
.... Keturning
to the Study from, say, Peter Brook’s brilliant but problematic rendition of A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, he wonders:
Are all those witty pieces of busines+the Brookian acrobatics and pregnant
pauses, Puck on stilts, actors doubling as Theseus/Oberon and Hip...
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Books Received
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 349–352.
Published: 01 September 1973
.... Tolkien
Roger Sale
Mr. Sale achieves some searching criticism of three very different writers one the poet of
sexuality, one Q Theseus-minded critic, and one an erudite romancer whose books have be-
come a cult for the young...
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Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (3): 287–291.
Published: 01 September 1984
... to understand that Theseus’s
amphitheater was huge, nor do we need an illumination from the Queen
Mary Psalter to show us that a reeve supervised workers in a field, an aspect
of the Reeve’s occupation that receives not the slightest attention in Chau-
cer’s depiction. Such illustrations are redundant...
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