Hot Questrists after the English Renaissance:
Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (AMS Press, 2000)
In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Society
Foreword
YASUO TAMAIZUMI
vii
Introduction
YASUNARI TAKAHASHI
1
Falling Backward and Broken Maidenhead:
Language of Sexuality in Romeo and Juliet
SOJI IWASAKI
5
Diagnosing Male Jealousy: Woman as Man’s Symptom in
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, The Winter’s Tale and Cymbeline
YOKO TAKAKUWA
19
The Wonder of the Virgin Queen:
Through Early Colonial Discourse on Virginia
EMI HAMANA
37
The Taming of the Shrewd Critics
Who Talk Wild of The Wild-Goose Chase
SHOICHIRO KAWAI
53
Creating the Female Self:
Margaret Cavendish’s Authorial Voice and Fictional Selves
MAMI ADACHI
69
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Dialogue in Romeo and Juliet
TETSUO KISHI
89
“Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes”:
Shakespeare’s Holographic Imagination
MITSURU KAMACHI
101
Coriolanus and the Body of Satan
KOICHI MURANUSHI
115
The Bee Emblem in The Rape of Lucrece
MISAKO MATSUDA
131
Overlapping Exits and Entrances in Shakespeare’s Plays
MARIKO ICHIKAWA
145
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Theories of Nature and Political Legitimation:
Two Orestes Plays in English Renaissance Drama
AYA MIMURA
167
The First and the Second Parts of Henry IV:
Some Thoughts on the Origins of Shakespearean Gentleness
SHIGEKI TAKADA
183
“Remember Saint Crispin”:
Narrating the Nation in Henry V
TED MOTOHASHI
197
Tamburlaine’s Prophetic Oratory and
Protestant Militarism in the 1580s
ARATA IDE
215
On the Margins of a Civilization:
The Representation of the Scythians in Elizabethan Texts
ATSUHIKO HIROTA
237
The Masque of Queens: Between Sight and Sound
YUMIKO YAMADA
255
Contextualizing Shakespeare:
The Renaissance Debate on the Nature of Slavery
SERGIO MAZZARELLI
269
Notes on Contributors
289
Index
293
