E A J Honigmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 5922030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E A J Honigmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | E A J |
| FAMILY NAME | Honigmann |
| SIGNATURE | HONIGMANN E A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More and Asylum Seekers
All over the world the problems created by asylum seekers, and the hostility aroused by legal and illegal immigrants, grow more acute. Shakespeare dramatized these problems – the anti-alien feeling that flared up at various times in London, and a wonderfully compassionate statement on behalf of refugees, in a scene of three pages that he added to the play of Sir Thomas More. As a former asylum seeker, some of whose relatives perished in concentra…
Shakespeare
Antony versus Cleopatra
Heroic tragedy or comical tragedy? Our uneasiness in defining the response to Antony mirrors our difficulty in describing the whole play’s genre and tones. Whether or not we accept either of the views quoted above, we cannot deny that Antony, first served to the audience in a piquant sauce of Cleopatra’s humour, elicits a response that sets him apart from all the other tragic heroes. Smarting in lingering pickle he loses tragic stature, at least …
Myriad-minded Shakespeare
Myriad-Minded Shakespeare
Politics, rhetoric and will-power in Julius Caesar
All of Shakespeare's history-plays and most of his tragedies deal with political problems, yet his critics, until quite recent times, have refused to take his politics seriously. I am particularly irritated by those who assume that in Julius Caesar the political implications are obvious, and are exactly the same as the politics in Shakespeare's other works. The dramatist, we have read often enough, supported the 'Elizabethan settlement', a strong…
Shakespeare's Romances and the Royal Family
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Shakespeare's Romances and the Royal Family
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Myriad-minded Shakespeare
Myriad-Minded Shakespeare
Politics, rhetoric and will-power in Julius Caesar
All of Shakespeare's history-plays and most of his tragedies deal with political problems, yet his critics, until quite recent times, have refused to take his politics seriously. I am particularly irritated by those who assume that in Julius Caesar the political implications are obvious, and are exactly the same as the politics in Shakespeare's other works. The dramatist, we have read often enough, supported the 'Elizabethan settlement', a strong…
Shakespeare
Antony versus Cleopatra
Heroic tragedy or comical tragedy? Our uneasiness in defining the response to Antony mirrors our difficulty in describing the whole play’s genre and tones. Whether or not we accept either of the views quoted above, we cannot deny that Antony, first served to the audience in a piquant sauce of Cleopatra’s humour, elicits a response that sets him apart from all the other tragic heroes. Smarting in lingering pickle he loses tragic stature, at least …
Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More and Asylum Seekers
All over the world the problems created by asylum seekers, and the hostility aroused by legal and illegal immigrants, grow more acute. Shakespeare dramatized these problems – the anti-alien feeling that flared up at various times in London, and a wonderfully compassionate statement on behalf of refugees, in a scene of three pages that he added to the play of Sir Thomas More. As a former asylum seeker, some of whose relatives perished in concentra…
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