Play Reviews: Fausuto No Higeki [The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus], La Nuit des rois [Twelfth Night], Roméo et Juliette [Romeo and Juliet], La Comédie des erreurs [The Comedy of Errors], La Nuit des rois [Twelfth Night], the Coveted Crown: Henry IV, Parts I and II, the Duchess of Malfi, Richard II, the Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, King Lear, as You like it, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, Doctor Faustus

2011 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-101
Author(s):  
Tomonari Kuwayama ◽  
Nathalie Crouau ◽  
Gaëlle Ginestet ◽  
Florence March ◽  
Stéphane Huet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
King Lear ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
Richard Ii ◽  
Twelfth Night ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
Henry Iv ◽  
Measure For Measure ◽  
Doctor Faustus ◽  
The Duchess Of Malfi ◽  
Romeo Et Juliette

scholarly journals Identity in Shakespeare

2012 ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Jay L. Halio
Keyword(s):  
King Lear ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
Twelfth Night ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Antic Disposition

This paper surveys the problems of identity in a number of Shakespeare’s plays, such as The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello. In these plays as in many others, Shakespeare explores the complexity of identity, not only through the use of disguise, as in the major comedies, but also through the problems of self-knowledge. The latter issue is prominent and explicit in King Lear when, for example, Lear asks “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” The opening words of Hamlet, “Who’s there?” introduce the problem from the outset, and much of the play is given over to characters trying to discover who the others in the play really are. Is the Ghost an honest ghost, or “a goblin damned?” Is Hamlet really mad or just putting on an “antic disposition” as he struggles to discover his proper course of action as his father’s avenger? Is Kate really a shrew, or just made to act like one by her family and others?

Play Reviews: Doctor Faustus, Twelfth Night, Doctor Faustus, the Duchess of Malfi, King Lear

2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Jami Rogers ◽  
Penny Gay ◽  
Lioyd Davis ◽  
Peter J. Smith ◽  
Katherine Wilkinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
King Lear ◽  
Twelfth Night ◽  
Doctor Faustus ◽  
The Duchess Of Malfi
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