Shakespeare in Connotations: A Journal for
Critical Debate
More than 80 contributions on Shakespeare have appeared in the first seventeen
volumes of Connotations (1991-2009). This list is almost complete; highlighted
articles and responses are freely available online.
All's Well That Ends Well:
Levin, Richard A. "The Opening of All's Well That Ends Well." Connotations
7.1 (1997/98): 18-32.
Styan, J. L. "All's Well That Ends Well: On Seeing and
Hearing the Opening Scene." Connotations 7.2 (1997/98): 215-18.
Antony and Cleopatra:
Cheney, Donald. "A very Antony: Patterns of Antonomasia in Shakespeare."
Connotations 4.1-2 (1994/95): 8-24.
Leimberg, Inge. "The Scarus-Episode in Antony and Cleopatra: A Response to Roy
Battenhouse, Shakespearean Tragedy." Connotations 4.3 (1994/95):
251-65.
Hamlet:
DiMatteo, Anthony. "Hamlet: Reconstructing a Lost Code of Meaning."
Connotations 6.1 (1996/97): 158-79.
Magnus, Laury. "Tragic Closure in Hamlet." Connotations
11.2-3 (2001/2002): 180-200.
Henry IV:
Henry V:
Crosman, Robert. "The Pivotal Position of Henry V in the Rise and Fall of
Shakespeare's Prose." Connotations 2.1 (1992): 1-15.
Hussey, Stanley. "A
Comment on Robert Crosman, 'The Pivotal Position of Henry V in the Rise and Fall of
Shakespeare's Prose.'" Connotations 2.3 (1992): 257-62.
Barish, Jonas. "Hal,
Falstaff, Henry V, and Prose." Connotations 2.3 (1992): 263-68.
Crosman, Robert. "Words, Weapons, and Role-players: A Reply to Stanley Hussey." Connotations 3.1
(1993/94): 48-51.
Crosman, Robert. "Generalization Must Be, but Woe unto the
Generalizer: A Reply to Jonas Barish." Connotations 3.1 (1993/94): 52-55.
King John:
Battenhouse, Roy. "Religion in King John: Shakespeare's View." Connotations
1.2 (1991): 140-49.
Billington, Sandra. "A Response to Roy Battenhouse, 'Religion in King John:
Shakespeare's View.'" Connotations 1.3 (1991): 290-92.
Hobson, Christopher Z. "A
Comment on Roy Battenhouse, 'Religion in King John: Shakespeare's View.'"
Connotations 2.1 (1992): 69-75.
Battenhouse, Roy. "On King John: An Answer to Billington and Hobson."
Connotations 2.2 (1992): 172-81.
Macbeth:
Robertson, Lynne M. "Getting A Head In A Warrior Culture: Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Problem of Identity." Connotations 7.1 (1997/98): 33-43.
The Merchant of Venice:
Egan, Gabriel. "Gilding Loam and Painting Lilies: Shakespeare's Scruple
of Gold." Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/2002): 165-79.
A Midsummer Night's
Dream:
Crosman, Robert. "What is the Dream in A Midsummer Night's Dream?"
Connotations 7.1 (1997/98): 1-17.
Laird, David. "'If we offend, it is with our good will': Staging Dissent
in A Midsummer Night's Dream." Connotations 12.1 (2002/2003): 35-51.
The Phoenix and Turtle:
The Sonnets:
Sams, Eric. "Who was the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnet 86?" Connotations 8.1
(1998/99): 127-33.
Brown, John Russell. "Cold Monuments: Three Accounts of the Reception of Poetry."
Connotations 9.1 (1999/2000): 34-42.
Cheney, Donald. "Response to John Russell Brown." Connotations 9.1 (1999/2000):
43-45.
Malpezzi, Frances. "Living Temples and Extemporal Song." Connotations 9.1
(1999/2000): 46-50.
Wardi, Eynel. "Cold Monuments Animated: A Receptive Response to John Russell Brown."
Connotations 9.1 (1999/2000): 51-56.
Semler, Liam. "Well-Wishing Adventurers: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems by A. D. Cousins
and Recent Responses to Shakespeare's Non-Dramatic Verse." Connotations 9.3 (1999/2000): 248-56.
Titus Andronicus:
Fitzpatrick, Joan. "Foreign Appetites and Alterity: Is there an Irish
Context for Titus Andronicus?" Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/2002):
127-45.
Troilus and Cressida:
Dayley, Glenn. "Beneath the Surface: Motives for Rhetoric and Action in Troilus and Cressida. A Response to Vernon Loggins et al." Connotations
11.2-3 (2001/2002): 262-71.
Twelfth Night
The Winter's Tale:
Muir, Kenneth. "A Comment on the Naming of Characters in The Winter's Tale."
Connotations 2.3 (1992): 287-90.
Leimberg, Inge. "An Answer to Kenneth Muir." Connotations 2.3 (1992): 291-94.
Collmer, Robert G. "A Collection of Toothpicks from The Winter's Tale to
Leviathan." Connotations 3.1 (1993/94): 13-25.
M. M. Mahood, Shakespeare's Wordplay: Some
Reappraisals:
Editing Shakespeare:
Catholic Shakespeare?
Honigmann, Ernest. "'Catholic Shakespeare?' A Letter in Response to Thomas Merriam" Connotations 13.3 (2003/2004): 270.
General/Other:
Sams, Eric. "'If you have tears . . .': Oxford and Onions." Connotations 1.2 (1991):
181-86.
Taylor, Anthony Brian. "Melting Earth and Leaping Bulls: Shakespeare's Ovid and Arthur
Golding." Connotations 4.3 (1994/95): 192-206.
Battenhouse, Roy. "On Puzzling Shakespeare by Leah Marcus." Connotations
1.2 (1991): 197-203.
Milward, Peter. "Towards an Understanding of Christianity in
Shakespeare: In Memory of Roy Battenhouse." Connotations 5.1 (1995/96): 76-82.
Hunt, Maurice. "Old England, Nostalgia, and the 'Warwickshire' of Shakespeare's Mind."
Connotations 7.2 (1997/98): 159-80.
Hassell Jr., Chris. "Shakespeare's 'Removed Mysteries.'" Connotations 7.3 (1997/98):
355-67.
Gibbons, Brian. "The Madness of George III: Shakespeare, the History Play and Alan
Bennett." Connotations 8.1 (1998/99): 1-21.
Regard, Frédéric. "Scholarship and Its Phantoms: Anthony Burgess's Shakespeare and 'fin de siècle' Conceptions of Genius." Connotations
9.2 (1999/2000): 160-66.
Egan, Gabriel. "Gilding Loam and Painting Lilies: Shakespeare's Scruple
of Gold." Connotations 11.2-3 (2001/2002): 165-79.
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