The Final WarTaylor & Francis, 1998 - 372 pages This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory. |
Contents
II | 9 |
IV | 22 |
WHAT THE FLEET DID | 31 |
VI | 39 |
VII | 45 |
VIII | 51 |
IX | 58 |
THE CAPTURE OF HAVRE | 74 |
XXVI | 201 |
XXVII | 210 |
XXVIII | 217 |
THE RIGOUR OF THE GAME | 226 |
THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND | 237 |
THE SHADOW OF DOOM | 245 |
XXXII | 253 |
107 | 262 |
HOW GERMANY WAS OUTWITTED | 90 |
THE DIVIDED STATES | 101 |
RUSSIA TO THE RESCUE | 107 |
THE GERMAN EMPEROR GETS A LESSON | 122 |
XVII | 130 |
CHEAP STEAM COAL | 138 |
XX | 152 |
XXI | 160 |
THE CROSSING OF THE HELMUND | 175 |
XXIV | 182 |
XXV | 193 |
XXXIV | 272 |
A SORTIE FROM PARIS | 282 |
THE GERMAN EMPEROR PAUSES | 291 |
DR JIMS SECOND RAID | 299 |
THE PRINCE AND THE EMPEROR | 310 |
HOW THE PARISIANS DANCED | 319 |
THE ELECTRIC RIFLE | 325 |
PARIS TAKEN | 334 |
XLV | 368 |
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